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Last Friday, a group of three young campers and two experienced guides hosted by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES) were attacked in their tent by a polar bear in Svalbard, Norway. The 14-foot bear killed 17-year-old Horatio Chapple and–according to recent reports–left some of its teeth in the scalp… Read the rest
This is an absurd video that will make you question why you’re watching it while you simultaneously find yourself laughing hysterically or, at the very least, chortling wholeheartedly in front of your screen. But don’t feel bad–we’re all humans and we’re all weird–as this video rightly proves.
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The first four jaw-dropping seconds open up to clips of Trond Teigen flying his body so deftly close and fast to some of the world’s most famous peaks that you’re left to wonder: can anyone fly a wingsuit? Does REI or Backcountry.com carry them yet? In the timely words of… Read the rest
Sailing on an ancient junk boat in Vietnam, riding a rickshaw in Japan or seeing the pyramids on camels – there are thousands of odd and intriguing forms of transportation around the world. Here are some of the strangest:
1. Bamboo Train, Cambodia
Between Battambang and Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh,… Read the rest
Yeah, you may be able to hit the slopes with Google Street View, but you better do it quick because the Street View camera man seems to be under attack by these Norwegians in scuba gear.
Click here to see the actual image via Google.
[Via: Boing Boing]
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Splashing around in water is fun. And no matter where you are on this grand planet of ours the rule is the same: if there is enough water people will find a way to have fun in it.
In his fly-fishing masterpiece The River Why… Read the rest, Oregon author David James
Comic genius Mitch Hedberg used to say, “An elevator can never break; it can only become stairs.” Unfortunately Mitch died in 2005. But unlike escalators and drug-addled comics, a well-crafted set of stairs can survive for centuries.
Through all the differences in culture and geography that permeate our world, one… Read the rest
If you haven’t seen Snakes on a Plane, the 2006 thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson, you are at least aware that it exists. But what you probably don’t think about as you walk past it in the movie aisle and make your dammed snarky comments, is that the possibility of… Read the rest
Scandinavian electronica? Unless you’re a committed music aficionado, you probably didn’t even know that such a thing existed. But any artist that’s represented by the label Astralwerks, who has big names like Air, Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers, deserves some respect, and Röyskopp has earned their spot on the list… Read the rest
Nordic Skating (or tour skating), called “lÃ¥ngfärdsskridsko” Swedish, is a popular Nordic sport that does not enjoy a lot of popularity in North America. But it looks like fun.
When most North Americans think of skating across ice we visualize what we know: hockey game thuggery, or the spinning, dancing,… Read the rest
Sick of Norwegians walking around acting like their poo smells like roses? Well it does. And if that’s not bad enough, it’s also going to power their city buses.
Norway’s plan to be carbon neutral by 2050 can’t always be described as green. Sometimes it a seems little more, well,… Read the rest
It’s the second week of Wend’s Alternative Transportation Month and today’s photo comes to us from Haley McNabb who is currently living in Hamar, on the east coast of Norway. In Norwegian this sled is called a spark, and with two blades — similar to ice skates — navigating the… Read the rest
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
It’s more fun wingsuit action. I am a little concerned about these skis they’re kicking off though; does someone have to backtrack all over the mountain to find them once they’ve fallen to the ground? Nevertheless it’s pretty awesome stuff… I’m disappointed that… Read the rest
Remember lemmings? The rodents that gather to heave themselves (to almost certain doom) off cliffs? It’s a popular myth that these creatures take the leap as part of some strange, Jonestown-esque mass suicide ritual. But in truth, lemmings, which travel in packs, only jump at times of overpopulation – when… Read the rest
Thanks to Julian Borger at guardian.co.uk for bringing us news about the Congo Basin Forest Fund, which launched today. The fund, which is the largest ever set to combat deforestation, was implemented by Britain and Norway to help fight deforestation in the vast Congo basin rainforest in Central Africa. The… Read the rest
