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The Lost City Of Petra

March 7, 2010

For the past 4,000 years, a certain wild and desolate section of Arabian desert has been known as Mount Seir.

But its capital city, Petra, had dropped from the memory of mankind, its name even forgotten for the past thousand years. …the city the world forgot!

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New On The Treasure Hunting Forums

Here are a few interesting posts from some treasure hunting forums on the web:
gollum on TreasureNet wrote Everybody wants to find old Jacob Waltz’ Lost Mine. Maybe almost as valuable would be to find the locations of his caches.

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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 Search For The Lost Ship Endurance

David Mearns calls it the shipwreck hunter’s ”ultimate challenge”: finding the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s vessel the Endurance.
Fresh from discovering the wreck of the torpedoed Australian hospital ship the Centaur, off the coast of Queensland, Mearns wants to voyage to the South Pole to find Shackleton’s vessel, which was lost in 1915.

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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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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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