Famed French Mountaineer Dies at 93
Maurice Herzog, a Frenchman who was the first Westerner to summit an 8,000-meter peak, died Friday at the age of 93. In 1950, he climbed Annapurna I (26,545 ft) and shortly thereafter became a household name as an alpinist and adventurer. Herzog was a pioneer. A man undeterred by extreme physical hardship.On the Annapurna climb, he lost everyone of his fingers and toes to frostbite. His book “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak” is considered by many to...
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Survival School in Snowy California
By Will Grant I met up with the West Coast Survival School in November last year outside Wrightwood, California. The nearby ski area was open, and a light snow had fallen the day and night before I arrived. The three-day school was being held on the east slope of the San Gabriel Mountains, in a dry valley of oaks, firs and pines. The two instructors, Reuben Bolieu and Reza Allah-Bakhshi, had just opened their West Coast school as a branch...
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The Photography of a Soldier at War
For the duration of his 15-month US Army tour in Afghanistan, Jeremiah Ridgeway carried a digital camera and scrap of torn paper with guidelines for submitting photos to National Geographic magazine. When he returned to American soil in 2007 with more than 8,000 images, the magazine liked what it saw. In March 2008, National Geographic published his photo of an Afghan National Army solider crouched in front of a wall in the snow. For having no formal training as a...
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Quadrotor Tactics
By Will Grant A swarm of nano quadrotors has a menacing presence. The video embedded below is from the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory. The flying robots are the work of professor Vijay Kumar and two graduate students. Kumar gave a lecture at this year’s Technology, Entertainment, and Design Conference in Long Beach, California, about how the robots work. “This gets a little challenging,” he says in the lecture, “because the dynamics of the...
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Neil Laughton Interview with the UK’s Telegraph
Neil Laughton has lived the sort of dramatic, adventurous life that many of us wish we could live. He survived the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest, which Jon Krakauer wrote about in Into Thin Air; he rode a jet ski around the British Isles; he drove/flew a flying car from London to Timbuktu; he’s completed the Explorers Grand Slam; and he’s hung out with Bear Grylls. Laughton, a former Royal Marine Commando and SAS officer, is also an entrepreneur. He...
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Python Challenge Opens in January
If you’ve ever wanted to kill a python, your chance has come. Florida has declared a one-month blitz on Burmese pythons in the Everglades area from January 12 to February 10, and wildlife officials want you to kill as many of the snakes as you can. It’s called the Python Challenge, and it’s akin to crowd-sourcing wildlife management. Whoever kills the most pythons wins $1,500. Whoever kills the longest wins $1,000. Officials are calling it an ‘incentive-based model’ for addressing...
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Come Back Alive: Crime
An excerpt from Come Back Alive By Robert Young Pelton The first major lesson in surviving crime is to expect it. Not just in bad neighborhoods or late at night but anytime, anywhere. In the pinball-like confluence of criminals and victims the chances are good that you won’t run into criminals today, but with enough time and travel you will. In general, you can safely assume that there is crime in bad neighborhoods when the bars close on Friday nights,...
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Dave Barr’s Epic Motorcycle Journeys
By Will Grant Dave Barr holds two Guinness World Records, has two prosthetic legs, and has ridden a Harley-Davidson motorcycle across every continent on Earth, save Antarctica. His story is one of commitment, perseverance, and freedom. In the face of grave odds, he has accomplished what few men would even try. His first feat was riding his motorcycle around the world, a journey of 83,000 miles that took three and a half years. He made the trip alone, without...
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Buying Drugs in Mexico Easy as Ordering Coca Cola
By Will Grant Nogales, Sonora: Firmly under the control of the Sinaloa cartel I walk across the border into Nogales, Mexico for the first time on Sunday. The streets are jammed with cars, the narrow sidewalks crowded with people. Every handrail and curb is smeared with greasy filth. A warm, putrid smell hangs in the air. A week of rain wouldn’t hurt this place a bit, I thought. The pharmacies welcome all foot traffic into Mexico, along with men offering...
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The Hype Over 3D Printed Gun Parts
By Will Grant Three-dimensional printed plastic gun parts are getting a lot of headlines these days. And like most conversations that involve guns, people are quick to bring up gun-control laws. Most of those people are missing the points. Some see printed guns as a threat: if any one can print a firearm in their basement, what’s keeping terrorists and whackos from doing it? Others see printing guns as an expression of freedom: I’m entitled to manufacture guns for my...
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Machine Gun Shoot in OK Draws Trigger-Happy Crowd
There are basically three events where the average US citizen has a chance to get his family’s hands on a wide range of full-auto machine guns. One of them was last weekend at Oklahoma’s Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show. The other two such opportunities are the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky, and the Big Sandy Shoot in Arizona. At all three events you can shoot wantonly at kitchen appliances, old cars and exploding targets. Photojournalist Pete Mueller...
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The Strange Story of John McAfee Continues… in Guatemala
The saga of anti-virus software mogul John McAfee just keeps getting weirder. Three weeks ago McAfee’s neighbor in Belize was found dead with a 9 mm gunshot wound to the head. McAfee fled, claiming innocence and saying that when Belizean authorities detain someone for questioning it never turns out well. Now he’s on the lam. About a week ago, Vice magazine’s editor in chief, Rocco Castoro, and photographer Robert King met up with McAfee in Belize. They’ve since left Belize...
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