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Google Trail View For Treasure Hunting

February 8, 2010

Premium GPS-based information from Trimble Outdoors and leading national publications—BACKPACKER, Bicycling and Mountain Bike magazines—is now available as a Google Earth Featured Content Layer.

This is the first multimedia GPS content layer for outdoor adventure seekers that allows Google Earth users to access a wide variety of data on fitness and outdoor adventures, including routes, GPS tracks, points of interest, trailhead directions, trail descriptions, photos, video and audio clips.

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn’t slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion.
As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No [...]

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Base Jumping – Adventure or Lunacy?

On a sunny afternoon in mid-August, Dean Potter stepped onto a tongue of rock just below the summit of Switzerland’s Eiger and jumped off. At first he plunged toward a ledge 600 feet below, then air gathered in his wingsuit, his forward trajectory kicked in, and he began to fly.
Speeding three feet ahead for every [...]

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Climbing The 7 Summits

The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents. Summiting all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge, first postulated as such in the 1980s by Richard Bass.

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The World’s Most Dangerous Hike

You are about to view pictures of a mountain hiking trail on Mt Huashan which is located in China. After you see the pictures, I have little doubt you will agree that it might just be the most dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail in the world.
There is a big difference between mountain climbing and [...]

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The Lost Spanish Silver Mine Of Llano County

Silver! Enough for every person to own a silver mine! So wrote Bernardo de Miranda y Flores in his 1756 report to the Spanish provincial governor after visiting Cerro del Almagre and Los Almagres, a mine near the Llano River.
Almagre is a Spanish word that means “ochre”, and Cerro del Almagre means a Mountain of [...]

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7 Women Reach South Pole After 562-Mile Ski Trek

Seven women on a 562-mile Antarctic ski trek reached the South Pole Thursday, 38 days after they began their adventure to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth.

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The Colorado Cave Of Gold

Many legends persist of lost Spanish treasure and ancient mines in Southern Colorado, but perhaps one of the more interesting accounts is that of La Caverna Del Oro.
Our recent expedition to the supposed location of this cave of legend proved quite a fascinating [...]

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Alby Mangels – Traveler, Adventurer, Explorer

Without exaggeration, Adventure Bound is one of best travel documentary series ever made, and I must admit that while surfing channels, I’m glued to my TV every time I stumble upon Alby Mangels’ adventures.
And if you have not yet discovered this extremely interesting and educational series, I will do my best to make you [...]

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