Apr 19th, 2012 at 8:00AM:
Last April we posted a story about Sarah Outen, an adventurous 26-year-old from the U.K. who had set out to circumnavigate the globe using nothing but her own power. Sarah called her journey the London2London expedition and over the past 12 months she has traveled by kayak and bike across Europe and Asia. Now she is preparing to embark on the next stage of her journey, a solo row across the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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British Woman Prepares To Row Across The Pacific
Apr 19th, 2012 at 8:00AM:
Last April we posted a story about Sarah Outen, an adventurous 26-year-old from the U.K. who had set out to circumnavigate the globe using nothing but her own power. Sarah called her journey the London2London expedition and over the past 12 months she has traveled by kayak and bike across Europe and Asia. Now she is preparing to embark on the next stage of her journey, a solo row across the ...How to row across the ocean
Feb 21st, 2012 at 2:30PM:
Over the weekend, the New York Times memorialized adventurer John Fairfax in the most awe-inspiring obituary ever written. In it, we learned that Mr. Fairfax had run away to the Amazon jungle at 13, then later worked as a pirate's apprentice out of Panama. But the main narrative of Mr. Fairfax's life was that he had rowed across not one, but two oceans: the Atlantic in 1969 and the Pacific in ...Pacific Rowing Race announced
Feb 7th, 2012 at 8:00AM: Adventurers and extreme sports athletes looking for a new challenge may well find what they're looking for in the newly announced Pacific Rowing Race. The event, which isn't scheduled to take place until June of 2014, will cover more than 2100 nautical miles, beginning in Monterey Bay, California and ending in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Organizers of the event expect that it will take around 30 to 35 ...Roz Savage finishes Indian Ocean row
Oct 4th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Long distance rower Roz Savage has added yet another ocean to her already impressive resume. The woman who has already rowed solo across the Atlantic and Pacific, has now completed the Indian Ocean as well, arriving in Mauritius today after 154 days at sea.
Savage began her journey way back in April, when she set out from Fremantle, Australia. After a few early set backs with her boat, she ...Explorers rowing to the Magnetic North Pole
Aug 1st, 2011 at 8:00AM: A few days back, a crew of six adventurers set out in a specially designed rowboat on a 450-mile journey to the Magnetic North Pole. The six-week long journey began in Resolute Bay, Canada and will end when the team becomes the first to row to the Pole, which is located in a remote area of the Arctic Ocean.
Not to be confused with the Geographic North Pole, the Magnetic North Pole is actually ...British woman rowing across the Indian Ocean
Apr 14th, 2011 at 8:30AM: British ocean rower Roz Savage just can't seem to stay at home. The adventurous 43-year old has already conquered both the Atlantic and Pacific, and now has her sights squarely set on rowing across the Indian Ocean as well. She set out from Fremantle, Australia yesterday and is now making her way to Mumbai, India in a voyage that is expected to cover more than 4000 miles and take four and a half ...British woman sets out to pedal and paddle around the world
Apr 4th, 2011 at 8:00AM: British adventurer Sarah Outen has set out to circumnavigate the globe under her own power. The 25-year old has dubbed her expedition "London2London via the World," and vows to complete the journey by pedaling and paddling the entire way, which means she'll be either on her bike or rowing a boat, for every mile of the journey.
Outen set out on her round-the-world excursion last Friday, April ...Human-powered circumnavigator climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for Tanzanian school
Mar 14th, 2011 at 5:30PM: Seattle-based adventurer Erden Eruç has launched the next phase in his quest to circumnavigate the world under human power, for his charitable organization, Around-n-Over (AnO). The mission of the 501(c)(3) non-profit is to assist poor communities by providing basic educational aid, resources, and facilities as a means of guiding them into self-sufficiency.
Eruç will continue his ...British woman completes solo row across the Pacific Ocean
Jun 4th, 2010 at 8:00AM: British ocean rower Roz Savage arrived in Madang, Papua New Guinea yesterday, completing the third, and final, stage of her solo row across the Pacific Ocean. Her arrival marked an end to an adventure that she has dedicated more than five years of her life to finishing.
Roz first came up with the idea of rowing across the Pacific after she completed a solo row across the Atlantic back in 2005. ...Katie Spotz completes solo row of the Atlantic
Mar 16th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Way back in December we told you about Katie Spotz, the 22-year old American woman who was planning to row solo from Dakar, Senegal in western Africa to the east coast of South America. This past Sunday, Katie arrived in Georgetown, Guiana, completing her journey, while becoming the youngest person to ever row solo across an ocean in the process.
The expedition covered more than 2817 miles of ...American woman prepares to row the Atlantic
Dec 26th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Katie Spotz has big plans for the new year. The 22-year old American is currently in Senegal where she is completing the final preparations for her attempt to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. If everything goes according to plan, she'll set out on her journey on the first day of 2010, and won't step back onto dry land for three months. The young woman from Cleveland, Ohio will depart from ...British woman resumes trans-Pacific row
May 26th, 2009 at 12:00PM: British ocean rower Roz Savage has set out on the second leg of her solo trans-Pacific row, launching from Hawaii Sunday evening on a 2620 mile journey that will end in Tuvalu in a few months time. Last year, Roz became the first woman to row solo from California to Hawaii, setting out from San Francisco, in just 99 days, covering more than 2300 miles in the process. That was just the first of a ...
