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Nanga Parbat First Solo Ascent - Reinhold Messner On Nanga Parbat Summit August 9 1978

What is adventure? 

In this short documentary interview with Reinhold Messner he explains his view on adventure, he explains - when you are exploring where you are far from human civilization or rescue support. It is less about the 7 highest summits to climb in the world, and more about remote locations where you go to self-survive the nature because in nature is danger and the art of surviving it is where adventure lives.

Reinhold Messner is a mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. [Wikipedia] He became famous as a lumberjack style mountaineer who chose to climb 14 8000 meter + peaks like Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. On December 30, 1989, Messner crossed Antarctica to the South Pole on skis with his partner Arved Fuchs. He speaks of the dangers of exploring, where nature and you meet face-to-face and surviving those conditions while exploring is the simple definition of what adventure means to him.

What is controversial about "World First Expeditions?" Even Reinhold Messner refutes the importance of completing the First/8000+ meter summits, while including the 7 Summits in his interview, lesser mountain First Ascents 6000+ meter peaks still remain - So, I ask the same question what is adventure? Messner suggests it's going places on your own remote from civilization, local support or chance of rescue and surviving all the inherent dangers that can occur in nature - alone. Nearing the human limits, this is definitely where adventure can end a journey to the soul. Few will ever risk their lives to experience this first hand.

[Authors notes] Reinhold Messner is acclaimed as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time. He was the first person to climb all 14 8,000-meter peaks—the tallest mountains in the world—and one of the first to climb Mount Everest without any supplemental oxygen. Hear Messner recount what it was like to climb Everest and what drives his passion for adventure.[National Geographic]

INTO THE WILD // Life's adventures come to those who get busy living // Learn to walk through adventures //

“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.” ~ Edward Abbey

Post inspired by: Sukh Brar

VICE Documentary: Surviving Alone in Alaska // Story of Heimo Korth //

Alaskan wilderness survival living, home to Heimo Korth for the past 30 years.

[Authors notes:] Published on 25 Apr 2012
Heimo Korth is the last man standing in 19 million acres of Alaskan wilderness. His neighbors are polar bears and caribous. Say good bye to civilization and see how they do it in the arctic circle on the last frontier in America.

In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan Interior, cutting off 19 million acres of prime boreal wilderness from the mitts of fur trappers, oil tycoons, and would-be lodge owners alike. Only six families of white settlers were grandfathered in and allowed to keep cabins in the refuge—of them, only one still stays there year-round living off the land. His name is Heimo Korth, and he is basically the Omega Man of Americas Final Frontier.

Hosted by John Martin & Thomas Morton | Originally released in 2009 at http://vice.com

Part I: First Night (00:00)
Part II: Learning to Survive (15:46)
Part III: Life in a Cabin (19:20)
Part IV: Man vs. Beast (33:36)
Part V: Death of a Daughter (44:41)
Part VI: Going Home (49:27)

Mike Horn Presents The PANGAEA Project - Nunavut, Canada Glacier Expedition #9

Nunavut Provincial flag of Canada

Description about Explorer Mike Horn's Expeditions

[Authors notes] Footage of explorer Mike Horn and the PANGAEA Young Explorers Program on their 9th of 12 global expeditions slated between 2008-2012. In August of 2011 the crew spends two weeks in the Northern Territories of the Nunavut, Canada region, Bylot Island, Baffin Island, Admiralty Inlet, Sam Fjord and the Clyde River. 

South African Mike Horn is acknowledged as the world's greatest modern explorer. He has undertaken exceptional adventures which have extended the boundaries of human achievement. His latest endeavor is The PANGAEA Project and Young Explorers Program.

The PANGAEA Project -- Is a 4-year circumnavigation of the world through a series of 12-scheduled expeditions each to different climates and surfaces including mountains, desert, ocean and arctic snow. For each Pangaea expeditoin, Mike and his team hand select eight high school or college students between the ages of 15 and 20 to accompany him.

The expedition is named Pangaea after the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago. It represents the objective and over-arching mantra of ONE WORLD which Mike Horn and his Young Explorers set out by land and see to Explore, Learn and Act.

The project which continues through 2012 has already covered over 100,000 miles, reaching the North and South Poles and crossing all the continents and oceans.

More about the expedition, visit Mike Horn.com

Antony Jinman, Polar Explorer (UK) Education Through Expeditions

There is so much going on in the exploration world (and in Korean-World!), I forgot to post about Antony Jinman, Polar Explorer, Adventurer, Daredevil, Good Will Guy of Plymouth, England. Antony is taking his exploration experiences to the classroom and is launching his foundation, Education Through Expedition (ETE) in collaboration with the University of Plymouth continuing scientific studies of the North Pole on his upcoming 2010 Expedition.

Antony Jinman drives an innovative way of bringing arctic exploration into the classroom, involving students inquiry (and mine) while he is out in his element, -50 degrees across Baffin Island's tundra high above the Arctic Circle pulling his sled with supplies and survival in mind, while surveying climate changes and visiting Inuit communities across the great divides.

Antony's outreach has gained recognition from the BBC, The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), and United Nations on documenting climate changes impacting geographical features of the arctic (massive glacial melting and permafrost thaws) which impacts the Inuit's communities and is rapidly changing their long developed, sustainable way of life and living. Much more information can be found on his website here.

Antony updates on his website:

"In February 2010, I will embark on my greatest expedition to date: to ski to the Geographic North Pole and be one of the few Britons ever to have done so. In so doing, and in collaboration with Plymouth University, I will collect vital data which will be used in climatic modeling research."

Let's take moment and discover more about his upcoming mission to the Pole...