At the end of November, Houlding and his team had set up a hanging camp on the daunting wall of Mount Roraima. They started climbing the same route as the British expedition of 1973 before breaking left into virgin territory. They reached “invis...(more)

Nick Butter has completed his record-setting quest to run a marathon in every country in the world. Fittingly, he wrapped up his nearly two-year journey in Greece, the birthplace of the marathon. In our last update, Butter had just completed his m...(more)

In his quest to climb every 8,000m (26,250ft) mountain in just seven months, Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja was down to one last hurdle, Shishapangma in Tibet. At first, it wasn’t clear if Nims would even be granted a permit to climb the mountain; only...(more)

Victor Vescovo has continued to break records in his two-man submersible, the Limiting Factor. In our last update, Vescovo had just completed a record-setting dive to the world's second deepest point, the Horizon Deep just off the Pacific islands ...(more)

The past few weeks have seen a lot of teams crossing through Central Asia. Many of them have been on the Pamir Highway, a road crossing through rugged, high-elevation terrain mostly in Tajikistan and at times hugging the Afghanistan border. Severa...(more)