World Class Academy is a fully accredited private high school. Though it is based out of White Salmon, Washington, the students are rarely there. The school has three different programs for three different adventure sports- climbing, kayaking, and kite boarding.
The Scandinavian philosophy of friluftsliv focuses on enlightenment through spiritual oneness with nature. The contemporary context, however, misleads us into believing that performing adventure sports in nature is a means to achieve friluftsliv. To be honest, it really isn't.
Very few places on Earth can produce athletes with the physical capacity of Ladakhis. Coupled with great ambition, they hold unrivalled potential. There is something brewing in the North of
In January 2017, Ben and Prashant left behind comfortable lives to explore a project-driven motorcycle journey of community service and adventure - across 60,000 km and 20 countries.
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Apoorva Prasad, The Outdoor Journal Editor-in-Chief, recounts a climbing trip to Montserrat in 2009, where he followed in the footsteps of the mountain monks of Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey.
The Whitewater Awards is a gathering of the world’s best kayakers to show off the biggest and best things that have happened in the sport over the past year.
Two men drive a jeep off a glacier and into a crevasse in Iceland. A US Air Force PJ recounts his role in a civilian rescue mission while stationed at a naval base in the North Atlantic.
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Bear Grylls is probably one of the most famous adventure celebrities in the world.
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It's hard to start running, but eventually the sound of your feet
With its steep granite walls and extensive valleys, Yosemite National Park is a mecca for climbers and all people who love nature. Once filled in ancient ice fields, this is
