Maldague was lucky to find the parts needed to repair his bike in the nearby town of Juliaca and could continue to make progress getting to San Miguel de Tucuman, roughly 1,050 miles away. He climbed up to an altitude of 16,000ft before dropping b...(more)

After flying down to Bangkok, McCutchen had some time to see the sights before reuniting with her bike Moab. After a mountain of paperwork, she headed southeast to her antipodal point. This point was one of the last Guinness requirements McCutchen...(more)

Russ Cook just can't seem to leave injuries and illness behind. After food poisoning in Cameroon, he's had persistent back pain in Nigeria. More worryingly, he has blood in his urine again, a problem he had early in his expedition. Cook reduced hi...(more)

Paul Salopek continues his walk through Shaanxi, China. First, Salopek and his walking partners splashed into Beijing in wet weather. Then, from Beijing, he worked his way to Taiyuan, a stone-age site that is important because archeologists discov...(more)

After five weeks of cycling in the three largest deserts in North America, Jelle Veyt arrived in Los Angeles. There, he took time to catch up with friends and recover before heading back to Belgium. Los Angeles was the end point for this stage of ...(more)