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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides
Forget the latest Netflix and Amazon Prime offerings — right now, one of the hottest shows on the planet is a 24/7 live-stream of moose slowly migrating through the Swedish wilderness. Dubbed The Great Moose Migration, this unlikely sensation is exactly what it sounds like. Hours of footage show moose slowly plodding through forests and wading across rivers. Viewers can’t get enough. Broadcast by SVT (Sweden’s public broadcaster), the event was first live-streamed in 2019.
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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides
Finnish duo Peyman, 42, and Sailor, 36, have decided to take a multi-disciplinary challenge to the extreme. Their “5athlon” expedition from Norway to South Africa has six stages and five different disciplines: skiing, running, cycling, swimming, and sailing. The project will take around two and a half years. And no, they don’t use last names anywhere, identifying themselves simply as Peyman and Sailor or by their combined social media handle, Nomad’s Trails. They began on Jan.
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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides
High school student Matteo Paz has stunned the scientific community by identifying 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. By creating an artificial intelligence algorithm, Paz found a way to sift through vast amounts of space data and uncover millions of cosmic objects hiding in plain sight.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has ended his attempt to circumnavigate the Southern Hemisphere. The 73-year-old priest had to abandon his 27,000km rowing journey after several technical failures on his boat, AKROS. Konyukhov was attempting a three-stage route around the southern hemisphere of our planet. Starting in 2019, he rowed 11,525km alone from New Zealand to Argentina, thereby becoming the first-known person to make a solo crossing of the Southern Pacific Ocean.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Kris Annapurna |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides
When you think of dangerous animal encounters and surfing, you immediately think of sharks. But something completely unexpected attacked RJ LaMendola when he was surfing off Oxnard, California. Around 140 meters from shore, a sea lion chased him down and bit him. Showing highly erratic behavior, the animal charged at him with alarming speed, mouth agape, and eyes locked onto him.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Lou Bodenhemier |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides
The birds of the Galapagos Islands gave Darwin some of his best evidence for evolution. Now some of those birds have evolved an extreme dislike of all the noise of this increasingly busy tourist destination. A new study suggests that traffic noise affects the behavior of the Galapagos yellow warbler. The little yellow birds are altering their songs, and the males have become more aggressive. Think of it as the avian version of road rage.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
In September 2024, Johnny Coyne and Liam Cotter of Ireland, both 24, began an ambitious 5,000km kayaking journey from Dublin to Istanbul. Their route has taken them across the Irish Sea and the English Channel without support vessels, followed by tricky navigation through European rivers and canals. With 4,000km behind them, their finish line is now almost in sight.
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4 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
When exactly did human language emerge? A new study suggests that humans have been chatting away for at least 135,000 years. Researchers from MIT took a new approach to unravel that old mystery. Rather than look at fossils and artifacts, they studied the movement of ancient populations via 15 genetic studies conducted over the past 18 years.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week. In the Land of Jaguars: Brazil’s Pantanal is the world’s largest wetland. One outpost, Porto Jofre, has become famous for its jaguars. Usually impossible to spot, you can see them with remarkable ease there. Twenty years ago, hunting and poaching pushed jaguars to the brink, but government protection and ecotourism have turned things around.
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1 month ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
Since our last ocean rowing roundup, one soloist has crossed into the Indian Ocean, another has made a pitstop in French Polynesia, and a canoeist has crossed the Atlantic. Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Dash: The Atlantic Dash is a relatively small event that touts itself as an “ocean-rowing regatta.” Four teams are participating in the 5,000km row from the Canary Islands to Antigua this year. Gary Hutching is rowing solo. Row For It is a four of Neil Glover, Peter Ross, Darren Smith, and Nick Southwood.
