I recently came across the story of Donald Crowhurst, in the film, Deep Water. As a junkie for all things nautical myself, the story of Crowhurst is a haunting one. Crowhurst was an English businessman and amateur sailor who participated in The Sunday Times Golden Globe sailboat race in the late 60’s. [...]
self portrait moments after they saw the end.
Gregg and Deia are friends of Wend working on a story for our fall issue about their trip. Well, trip isn’t really the right word at all:
“Español abajo…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
On April 17th 2008 at 4.24pm Deia and Gregg made it to Cabo San Pío, [...]
After eight days rafting and kayaking, our multi-national team of scientists, conservationists and river enthusiasts returned from the last descent of the Great Bend of the Yangtze. Ending the trip was bitter sweet. The sweet: the expedition was a monumental success that combined some of the world’s most incredible whitewater and remarkable cultural [...]
photo copyright captain Liz Clark
As you might know, as a reader of Wend, that our friend Liz Clark’s circumnavigation of the world is a constant inspiration to us. I get satellite emails from her fairly often. She tells me about things as exciting as swimming with sharks and as mundane as waiting for supply [...]
Umm, this will make your day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3FDfRIMs54
Well, the Wend Blog isn’t strictly reserved for “ye old most extreme vid” out there, but for some reason, we keep coming across a bunch of really, truly, jaw-dropping videos of late. This is Terje Haakenson, whose been snowboarding since the old school days, and this descent puts him in a league of his own. [...]
Yeah, bad joke. Sorry. But this nuts. The Swiss might not go to war, but they sure do go to battle.
This is some of the most dizzying and downright scary footage I’ve ever seen of the famed walk at El Camino Del Rey, (The King’s Path) Spain. It was originally built in 1901, but has fallen into disrepair. It is 3 feet wide and an over 2,000 foot fall. Yikes. [...]
In the upcoming issue of Wend, Kyle Dickman takes you to Papua New Guinea for the first descent of the East Pandi River, as a part of the Epicocity Project’s mission to use exploratory kayaking to bring awareness to the ecological affects of the oil palm industry on New Britain Isle. All sorts of [...]
Words and photos copyright Captain Liz Clark.
Got a note from Liz today from her satellite email. Here’s an excerpt from that email, about a storm she was in. Liz is currently somewhere near Christmas Island and going strong. Look forward to another update from her in our summer issue. She’s such [...]