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  • Adventure Travel News
    Yellowstone Hits All Year Visitor Record Already in September

    Already after September Yellowstone National Park has hit a new all year visitor record with 3.8 million visitors. Last September more people were flocking into Yellowstone than during any other September on record. With visitor numbers not seeming to decline and three more months to go, chances are good, that Yellowstone will even hit the […]

  • Adventure Travel in Western Europe
    “The Ridge” – Mountain Biking on the Edge

    In the spectacular mountain biking video “The Ridge” street trial pro rider Danny Macaskill, who usually uses parts of the urban environment for his stunts, returns to his home, the Isle of Skye and raises mountain biking to a level of ridiculous amazingness. Macaskill rides along the Cuillin Ridgeline, a range of mountains, which does […]

  • Adventure Travel in Western Europe
    Germany’s Longest Suspension Bridge Has Opened

    Germany’s longest suspension bridge has just opened, and it’s already attracted thousands of thrill-seekers. The Geierley Rope Bridge is almost 300 feet (about 90 meters) above the Geierley Canyon floor and is approximately 1200 feet (about 365 meters) in length; meaning it’s a long walk – and a long drop! The bridge is held by steel […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    Sarah Outen Forced to Quit Atlantic Crossing

      Due to adverse weather Sarah Outen had to interrupt her epic quest to circumnavigate the northern hemisphere eastwards only by bike, kayak and rowing boat. She found herself in the middle of the Atlantic quickly approaching hurricane Joaquin with wind speeds of up to 60 knots and huge waves, which did not leave her […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    New Formation Skydiving Record Set by 202 Skydivers

    For most of us, it was just an ordinary Tuesday, but in Southern California a group of 202 people from 24 countries set out to achieve an insane record: they formed the largest sequential skydiving formation, that has ever been done. Most of them skydiving experts in all age groups from 25 to 70 years, […]

  • Adventure Travel News
    World’s Longest Selfie Stick Created for Japanese Tourists

    Watching Japanese tourists, the  assumption immediately suggests itself, that the island nation is one of the greatest markets for selfie sticks. Taking advantage of the narcissism of the Japanese, Australia has launched a new app, the world’s longest selfie stick, especially for the national market of Japan. To take a long-range destination selfie, the user […]

  • Adventure Travel in North America
    Mount McKinley Will Be Renamed to Denali

    It is time to review your bucket list of peaks to climb, since a decade old dispute about the name of North America’s highest mountain will be settled soon by the Obama administration and Mount McKinley will be renamed to Denali. Meaning “high,tall”, this was how 6168 m high Mount McKinley was called by the […]