1.For all those who want to follow in your footsteps, how did you become an expedition manager….university degree/extra curricular activities/work experience…the lot? In 2008 I formed Team EPIC, a team of mad, bad and dangerous to know adventurers. An initial failure to find sponsorship for a Greenland Icecap race led to a last-minute scramble toContinue reading “Interview with Margaret Bowling – Expedition Manager and first Aussie women to row an ocean.”
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My Daddy the Cyclist
It is an impressive sight; the cyclist’s peloton, so organized, so smart, pedaling in sync along their preplanned route. The heads are down, the matching uniforms are on, their sleek racing bikes working together like a machine. All its riders are effectively anonymous, disguised in their superhero gear. Then one by one they turn offContinue reading “My Daddy the Cyclist”
Rat Race – Urban Gym, Edinburgh
What a simple yet genius idea. Taking the gym to the streets. Taking the routine of running slumped over a treadmill, IPod taped to your ears, eyes listlessly stalking the mute TV on the wall and introducing you back to the world of outdoors. Edinburgh’s Urban Gym has regrouped and restyled and its going toContinue reading “Rat Race – Urban Gym, Edinburgh”
Interview with Dave Cornthwaite
Dave Cornthwaite is a British adventurer, author and motivational speaker. 1.Does the job of an adventurer/author and motivational speaker go hand in hand? Was this your childhood dream job? It definitely wasn’t something I considered doing when I was younger, I just didn’t know it was possible. I don’t really seeContinue reading “Interview with Dave Cornthwaite”
Raise your Guinness to the best surf spot in Europe
Photographer Gary McCall The clock tolls 6am. A phone rings in the mighty village of Bundoran in the North West of Ireland. The answering machine clicks into place and broadcasts the message to the sleeping household. “Get up quick, a massive swell is coming,” the voice of a local surfer, Ronan Oertzen floods the room. TheContinue reading “Raise your Guinness to the best surf spot in Europe”
A trek up Croagh Patrick
If you are a native Irish and are unaware of the status of the mountains that sit on your doorstep, than shame on you, but at least now you know. They are immaculate and grueling and you can find one to scramble up in almost every county. But if you are a native Irish andContinue reading “A trek up Croagh Patrick”
Humber Sailing & Powerboating Centre: Intro to Keelboat Sailing
Fact: Introduction to keel-boat sailing is theory free, what a blissful way to learn, just hands on experience. Seven hours on the water, that’s some introduction. This way the participant either likes it or they don’t. The course run by Humber Sailing & Powerboating Centre, Toronto offers two choices, three evenings a week for two hoursContinue reading “Humber Sailing & Powerboating Centre: Intro to Keelboat Sailing”
Review: Blue Crush 2
The spin offs on major movies is usually make or break time. It can crash and burn or it can explode into a box office sensation. Sadly, Blue Crush 2 made neither category, but floated somewhere in between. It is the perfect crappy chick flick for a Saturday night in, alone with a giant calorie loadedContinue reading “Review: Blue Crush 2”
The Gaa Presidents Award
He may not have graced the green fields of Croke Park in his youth but he will grace its very walls. He was present on the Canadian pitches in its boom time and he is still there now on the sidelines and behind the scenes as history repeats itself and GAA abroad once again explodes,Continue reading “The Gaa Presidents Award”
5 Ironman’s in 5 Days
The body is a temple. it can be cared for, it can be abused and in an athletes case it can be pushed to extremes and exhausted, so as on occasion the audience gets to witness crazy yet incredible things. On 8 June 2011, 26 year old former army member Ian Walsh, will attempt toContinue reading “5 Ironman’s in 5 Days”
Orla O'Muiri 