6+ hour, 7+ min ago  (721+ words) Swiss adventurer Stephane Weissbaum has completed a 20-day sled and snowkite traverse of Iceland's three largest ice caps. Setting out in eastern Iceland on February 2, the 30-year-old traveled 414km across Vatnajokull in the southeast, Hofsjokull in the central highlands, and Langjokull…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (720+ words) Last summer, three accomplished alpinists " Ethan Berman, Sebastian Pelletti, and Maarten van Haeren " became the first to climb the long-coveted southeast pillar of Ultar Sar. A notable alpine-style effort came in 2011 from Fumitaka Ichimura and Yusuke Sato, who started from…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (636+ words) A thousand years before the first pharaohs ruled Egypt, Eastern Europe boasted a network of settlements larger than any other in the world. They were the Tripillyan megasites, centers of salt and copper production. Some had populations of up to…...