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Climbing Aconcagua, Argentina, the Summit Attempt

“We are going, get dressed !!!”, the guide was yelling at the top of his lungs, barely audible above the noise of the howling wind, only about one metre from my...

Climbing Aconcagua, Argentina, Preparing for the Summit Attempt

“Stay, low, low, low!!!”, our guide was yelling, hardly audible, as the wind was howling, “lie on the ground!!!”. I dove to the ground with my feet slipping on ...

Travel Digest #265

Introduction Heya all, @martibis here with another edition of traveldigest! Short one!All featured posts will be upvoted through @steemitworldmap.All featured p...

Climbing Mount Elbrus in Russia - Home to base camp

My trip to Mount Elbrus started off rather shaky – I think I may have underestimated the preparation time and perhaps prioritized the climbing requirements abov...

Introducing CycleFeed: Curation Project For Cyclists By Cyclists

Welcome to the @CycleFeed introduction! - Oil your chain, adjust your saddle and hop on board. This is a project to support our fellow cyclists across the Steem...

Mountain Biking Trip near Mount Kenya

This is a blog about a mountain biking trip in Kenya, to celebrate the start of cyclefeed, which hopefully will be a thriving place to meet all bike enthusiasts...

Bicycle Photo Contest- My Entry - Cycling in Lesotho

This photo was taken by me while Mountain biking in Lesotho, close to Maseru, on the border between South Africa and Lesotho. This is my entry for the photo com...

The Idiot’s guide to the Tour de France (….it’s a cycling race…)

Don’t know anything about cycling or the Tour de France? Perhaps this blog can help you. The Tour de France is a tour on a bicycle through France of about three...

Mountain Biking the Swiss Alps

I like mountain sports and I will take as many opportunities as I can to experience a mountain by either running, hiking (climbing) or riding it. Mountain bikin...

Conquering the highest Mountain outside Asia: Aconcagua

[//]: (!steemitworldmap -32.894872 lat -68.788147 long d3scr) We were in the bus with our group of fellow climbers, whom we would get to know very well over the...

Great getaways: Praia du Bilene, Mozambique

I have beautiful, warm memories of the time I spent in Bilene, Mozambique a few years ago over December holidays with my family. It is a bit far out of the capi...

Bhutan: the Hidden Himalayan Kingdom of Happiness - photos

The Hidden Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas photo: my own After competing in the 'Tour of the Dragon', a 268 km MTB race in Bhutan, I travelled around the cou...

Bhutan: Tour of the Dragon MTB race (3) – through the darkest times

The Tour of the Dragon MTB race is held in exotic Bhutan in the Himalayas photo credit: modern traveler -------- --------- Click here in case you missed my firs...

Bhutan - Tour of the Dragon MTB Race (2): Up (and down) we go!

The Tour of the Dragon MTB race is held in exotic Bhutan in the Himalayas -------- --------- In case you missed my first post on the lead up to this race: click...

Bhutan: The Tour of the Dragon – MTB race (1) – the lead up

I looked out of the window of a chilly hotel room in Bumthang and there I saw what I was hoping I wouldn’t see: it was raining heavily. Photo credit: tourofthed...

Road Less Travelled: Papua New Guinea

I have been lucky enough to visit a few countries for my work, that are not the usual tourist destinations. I recently visited Papua New Guinea, a very interest...

Cyclist's (or Athlete's) Iliac Artery Syndrome – Could you or someone you know be a sufferer?

I am a multi-sport endurance athlete and have been diagnosed with a condition called External Iliac Artery Endofibrosis that limits the amount of blood that goe...

Tubeless or not Tubeless, is it a question?!

To go tubeless or not for your MTB bicycle tyres, that is a question some of you might ask yourselves. For me it's clear: the South African bush has so many tho...

Toughest MTB Races - Jacques Tattersall wins the Freedom Challenge, South Africa in just over 12 days!

In one of my previous posts I talked about the Freedom Challenge in South Africa, 2,300 kilometres with map-navigation and no GPS allowed. all photocredits: fre...

The Most Difficult Contest In The History Of STEEM

http://plus1daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/100-1.png Winner winner! I've been playing with this idea since I first 'discovered' the concept of delegation ...