Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2019 i Adventure Magazine

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those…

I spend my time these days between my home in Coromandel and work in Auckland. It’s a lovely balance and while I am in Auckland, I live on an old kauri motor sailor in Westhaven Marina for 2 or 3 days a week. I do look forward to getting home to Coromandel on a Thursday night but also enjoy my weekly time on the boat. It may be surprising to some that Westhaven is the largest marina in the Southern Hemisphere and is home to over 2,000 boats. During the day it can be a hive of activity but very few people stay in the Marina and it gradually becomes a quiet and tranquil place in the evening and stays that way through the night and into the early morning.…

It took a while for the magnitude of my little ‘whoopsie’ to sink in. Maybe it was denial, maybe it was shock, maybe it was PTSD, maybe it was a combo of all. Whatever it was, charging mountains and carving rails was about as far from my mind as you could get for the many months I was well and truly deep in the trenches of recovery from said ‘whoopsie’. That late August morning, I had misjudged where I was and had taken one turn too many as I arced turns of white dusty chalk promptly proceeding to be bluffed and launched at pace off the precipice of Chute 7 at the very top of Treble Cone's Motatapu Chutes having had zero intention of going in there that day. Without…

Retiring from his position at the Service late last year, Paul Connelly had set himself a goal to achieve with his newfound time: improve his fitness and health and see a bit of the world along the way. Taking up a challenge – whether personal, professional or for a charity – was not alien to him and so he compiled his own personal bucket list to keep him occupied. The first point to tick off was to trek to Everest Base Camp and see the wonders of the mountains in this area of the Himalayas. And with that goal in mind, Paul’s Everest Base Camp review starts… I was daunted by the number of companies that were keen to take you trekking and all had slightly different ways of achieving…

Sick of eating freeze-dried meals and artificial energy bars was the motivation Duncan Forbes and Garth MacIntyre needed to start their food company, Go Native. They wanted to eat a hearty delicious meal while adventuring around the world and hence, Go Native was created. We caught up with Duncan to find out a little more about their business... What sets Go Native apart from other tramping/hiking foods? • You will actually enjoy your meal and look forward to it • Our meals are ready to eat casseroles and curries not freeze-dried • They are good enough to eat at home • They can be happily eaten cold for lunch or in an emergency, you don’t need to give up your valuable water to rehydrate them • They are ready to…

I recently have been asked a few times about my wild camping experiences and well simply - why do I do it? Which brings me to the notion - why we do escape to isolated areas and pitch our tents in sometimes unfavourable/ unplanned conditions? I guess it's one of those things, if you know why you do it... you know. The saying goes ‘No risk, no reward’. The experience of wild camping brings with it some risk, for you are looking to camp in exposed locations the majority of the time and the conditions can change very quickly. Speaking from experience, with some incredible moments and experiences wild camping, but also, some very unfavourable ones. One time I was camping at the foot of Mt Chaos in MT Aspiring…

The number of freedom campers has grown significantly from around 10,000 in the early 2000s, to nearly 60,000 in more recent years. However, even with this increase, freedom campers only make up a very small percentage of campers. It is a thorny subject, pricking the rights to camp where you wish against the negative aspects that often come with freedom camping. So we thought we would ask your opinion. Derek Morrison / NZsurfjournal.com "Yes, freedom camping should be legal. It’s a part of the New Zealand culture and it has been forever. We live in a comparatively sparsely populated country and we don’t have the guesthouses of Germany and Europe littered through our mountains or the range of accommodation options that other countries enjoy at the end of…

Borneo, known for its Orangutans and Pygmy Elephants, was the destination for our family holiday. We have taken our daughters, (12 and 16) on a variety of adventure holidays but this was going to be our first major wildlife adventure. I was hoping that this would be something that they would enjoy, but it turned out to be so much more. We landed in Kota Kinabalu, which is in the Sabah region on the north west coast of Borneo, after flying from New Zealand to Singapore. A few days later we headed over to the east coast to Sandakan port where we travelled to Lankayan Island in the Sulu Sea. It is one of the last islands in Malaysia before you reach Philippine waters. The first thing that struck us,…

R completely onja Hill revolves -Wright around 's life racing bikes.. she When is lucky not training enough , or to to have work a career within that the allows mountain her find bike her community guiding . bike You might tours on or leading my local coaching trails in sessions the Whakarewarewa Forest. Make no mistake, mountain bikers have to be a little bit crazy. Sometimes I sit back and think, who had the idea to combine a bunch of dangerous variables like high speeds, velocity, sharp rocks, jutted roots and unexpected obstacles with two-wheels and 10kgs of metal in between them...? Yep, there’s a little bit of crazy in all of us. And for some reason we love it! But for all the madness, the injuries, and the…

Eco-friendly T-shirt collaboration with Thread International creating positive economic and environmental change. Sustainable style goes off mountain in cool new graphic tees for men and women made with upcycled plastic. Plastic bottles are collected from the streets and canals of Haiti and Honduras, turning waste into eco-conscious, impactful Thread Collection apparel. Thread fabrics can be traced back to the collection centres in the first mile (the individuals and areas where plastic bottles are picked up from the ground). Each yard of recycled fabric helps create thousands of jobs in a circular supply chain. In 2010, Ian Rosenberger (fun fact, Ian also finished 3rd in 2005 Survivor Palau, and was a dolphin trainer at the time) visited Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. He went to help, and while…

We had nowhere to go. As darkness began to descend and the high altitude freeze tightened its grip, our trekking group surveyed the Gokyo Glacier before us. We were somewhere between Renjo La and Cho La, two mountain passes in the Khumbu Valley, Nepal, somewhere west of Everest Base Camp. We had crossed 90 per cent of the glacier, but large bodies of freezing water and impassable walls of ice blocked the final leg to the other side. We trudged far and wide, searching for a way through, always returning to the same spot. We were getting desperate. A member of our quartet, perhaps delirious with fatigue, made the laughable suggestion that we throw huge boulders into one of the lakes to allow us to step-stone across. "Damn you, global…

The East Coast of the North Island is a remote, relatively untracked, and infrequently visited area except for the multitude of hunters who jealously guard their access and favourite spots. It is bounded to the west by Te Urewera (formerly national park), and to the North by the Raukumaras all the way up to Mount Hikurangi near the East Cape. Home to Tuhoe and Ngati Porou, the ‘coast’ runs on its on schedule and under its own set of rules. The respective areas of bush form the largest unbroken tract of native forest in the North Island. Access to Te Urewera is limited to (roughly) Lake Waikaremoana on the East side, or through the Whirinaki forest to the North West. The remoteness of this area has left it feeling a…

I can honestly say I have never been asked to leave a surf competition before! Sure, I have been yelled at and abused a bit, but I have never been given ten minutes in the bin! Looking back we possibly we should have seen it coming. On the first day, we arrived at Teahupoo in Tahiti for the World Surf Leagues Championship Event – we should have got an inkling of what the next few days had in store. Let me explain: Teahupoo is a reef break, one of the biggest and heaviest waves in the world. Nestled at what is termed the 'end of the road' for a good reason - it is simply at the end of a long and winding road. This awe-inspiring coral reef not only…

Scott Donaldson is a former triathlete, Coast-to-Coast competitor, Ironman coach, mentor and competitor in a myriad of sports. He began as a swimmer to strengthen his lungs, after having life-threatening asthma as a child. Scott's son also has asthma, and his father died aged 42 from a heart attack, and so Scott has made fitness a life priority. In 2018 Scott successfully became the first person to solo kayak the Tasman. The following is an extract from his book, Relentless: The First Person to Solo Kayak the Tasman. By Scott Donaldson with Steve Kilgallon. The first psychological battle for most people is the moment on the third day when they lose sight of land. My wife, Sarah and I had talked about that, so I had mentally visualised what it…

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