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Paragliding 101: Learn to paraglide with The Outdoor Journal

Paragliding 101: Learn to paraglide with The Outdoor Journal

The Outdoor Journal tells you how to be a part of the flying community! Paragliding is an aerial adventure sport, where the pilot footlaunches and freeflies an inflatable fabric glider wing. The pilot is suspended below the wing, in a harness attached by suspension lines to the canopy. Air pressure

How to prepare for the AquaTerra Challenge

How to prepare for the AquaTerra Challenge

This adventure racing event introduces the multi-day sport to North India with a 20k hike, 16k bike and 30k rafting section over 2 days in Uttarakhand. Join us as we cover every minute of the race! Set in the upper Ganga valley of north India, the event is spread over

Triumph Motorcycles launch adventure bikes in India

Triumph Motorcycles launch adventure bikes in India

With rising demand for high-priced motorbikes and more people keen on an outdoor lifestyle in the subcontinent, the legendary bike comes in with the right throttle UK's largest bike manufacturer Triumph Motorcycles launched its India chapter in New Delhi on Thursday. The "iconic" automobile manufacturer comes

Carissa Moore Crowned ASP World Champion 2013 : An Exclusive Interview

Carissa Moore Crowned ASP World Champion 2013 : An Exclusive Interview

For the two time 21-year-old Hawaiian champ - "there's no better training for surfing than... surfing"! Our editorial director Gaël Couturier caught up with her a few weeks after her second title win in July GC: I re-watched the video of your win in Portugal. Man,

Alpinists Mick Fowler and Paul Ramsden the first to summit Kishtwar Kailash

Alpinists Mick Fowler and Paul Ramsden the first to summit Kishtwar Kailash

Having set their eyes on this massif in 1993, their ten-year climbing partnership brought them back 20 years later to see it through till the summit Named after the politically unstable district of Kishtwar in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, northern India, Kishtwar Kailash (6,451 mts / 21,165

Ultra-Trail World Tour set for 2014 launch

Ultra-Trail World Tour set for 2014 launch

Having run a plethora of marathons, the trail running community gets bigger and better The Ultra-Trail World Tour begins in 2014. The announcement was made in Chamonix, France, on the sidelines of The North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc earlier this year. The Ultra-Trail World Tour will propose an international competitive

Mussoorie hosts Sixth Writers' Mountain Festival

Mussoorie hosts Sixth Writers' Mountain Festival

Amidst the sprawling estates and picturesque valleys of Uttarakhand, Woodstock School celebrated a weekend of outdoor literature Woodstock School, one of the most renowned institutions in South Asia, organized their Sixth Mussoorie Writers' Mountain Festival from November 7th to 10th in Mussoorie, a small but scenic hill station in