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British adventurer Alastair Humphreys coined the term ‘microadventures’ for “simple expeditions and challenges, which are close to home, affordable and easy to organise”. He designated 2011 his ‘Year of British Microadventures’ and every few weeks he has undertaken a self-designed challenge ranging from entering a race to sleeping sans tent on a hilltop and a [...]
With just under three weeks until the start of Expedition Africa, the MERRELL Adventure Addict’s preparations suffered a major setback over the past weekend. The second edition of Expedition Africa, which now forms part of the Adventure Racing World Series (ARWS), will see teams lining up for a non-stop 500km adventure through the wilderness area [...]
The first Metrogaine Jo’burg event of the year took to the streets of Melville. This old suburb is well suited to the sport of urban rogaining with its small blocks, interesting streets, abundance of hills, lack of road closures and quaint pedestrian accesses.
The AR World Series 2012 is underway, with the first two qualifying races taking place in South America and teams from Ecuador and New Zealand claiming their places at the World Championships in France in September. Team Ecuador Nissan were the clear winners at Huairasinchi, racing on home territory in the 10th edition of a [...]
Two South Africans, Juan Botes and Hugo du Plessis, are participating in the International Nunavik Adventure Challenge. The event starts on Sunday, 25 March and runs over three days. This is a staged race. Disciplines included are: backcountry cross-country skiing, winter trail running, snowshoeing, ropes and mountaineering, orienteering and backcountry snowboarding.
It was time again for Kinetic Gear’s first big race of 2012, the Double Moon 250km Adventure Race in the Vanderkloof Dam area of the Northern Cape. For this race, Team Red Ants members were Alex Pope, Christiaan Greyling, Nicky Booyens and Brian Gardner.
At AR Club next Tuesday, 13 March, Team Cyanosis will be speaking about their recent remote and rugged adventures in Patagonia.
It is with great sadness that I relay news of the passing of George Forder, one of the old bullets in our adventure racing community. In fact, I can’t remember not knowing George and over more than a decade he has been in my life either through races, Facebook, phone chats or by-mistake-calls, as was [...]
All you need is a simple baseplate compass – nothing fancy. A baseplate compass can be placed on your map – you can see through the base. This is the most important characteristic of a baseplate compass.
The final race route for the Patagonia Expedition Race has been announced and we are now waiting to start the race! At race briefing last night, a 565km-long course divided into six sections was announced.
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