by Ralph Teller, Ironman Triathlete | Dec 18, 2024 | Adventure, article
Adventure Aerialist uses no tethers or safety nets June 23, 2013 – Grand Canyon, Arizona With incredible focus, Nik Wallenda, the adventure aerialist and high wire artist, walk a quarter-mile (400 metres) across the Grand Canyon on a 2 inch steel cable with...
by Ralph Teller, Ironman Triathlete | Dec 18, 2024 | Adventure, article
Alex Honnold . . . . . . young, focused, competent, skilled, prepared, efficient, fit and free. Living the simple life and free solo climbing with no ropes and no equipment. Big wall climbing. Big wall climbing with no support. Risk. Adventure. Independence....
by Ralph Teller, Ironman Triathlete | Dec 18, 2024 | Adventure, article
This Bering Strait Swim Relay is first such swim in history The Place. The Bering Strait is 82 kilometres (51 mi; 44 nmi) wide between the Chukchi Peninsula, Russia (the eastern most point of the Asian continent) and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska ( the western...
by Ralph Teller, Ironman Triathlete | Dec 18, 2024 | Adventure, article
October 14, 2012 “Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are.” Felix Baumgartner Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (128,000 ft or 24 miles), reaching an estimated...
by Ralph Teller, Ironman Triathlete | Dec 18, 2024 | Adventure, article
“Dude, you’re at the Olympics, what do you have to lose?” February 8, 2014 Sage Kotsenburg wins the Sochi Olympic Gold medal in Slopestyle Snowboarding with his sense of adventure born of the frontier American West (Sage was born in Idaho, raised in Utah). The triple...
