Ushuaia Photoset 2
Thanks to our friend Keoki Flagg (© 2009) for all these great photos! [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157622872287236″]
Thanks to our friend Keoki Flagg (© 2009) for all these great photos! [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157622872287236″]
Thanks to our friend Keoki Flagg (© 2009) for all these great photos! [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157622747926697″]
On the Ice Axe Amazon adventure, one thing’s for sure: fishing in the Amazon is a heck of a lot more interesting than fishing in the local stream. Check out the pics below to see catches made by Doug and Allan on a previous Amazon trip. Beautiful specimens indeed!
by Robert Frohlich I’ve asked notable Ice Axe adventurers and other ski industry notables if fatherhood has affected their outlook towards the heightened, but dangerous experiences found on mountain peaks. Doug Stoup, 46 – (8 times to both the geographic North and South Poles): Having children makes it harder to leave home, but I wouldn’t … Continued
By Robert Frohlich “You cannot be a good mountaineer, however great your ability, unless you are cheerful and have the spirit of comradeship. Friends are as important as achievement. Another is that teamwork is the one key to success and that selfishness only makes a man small. Still another is that no man, on a … Continued
by Robert Frohlich “The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and to indicate them it was necessary to point.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cerva Harbor – Antarctic Peninsula] The walls are singing. Small twangs and moans interrupt the early afternoon light and pulse up from the brash ice … Continued
by Robert Frolich “O let my keel burst! Let me go to the sea.” – Arthur Rimbaud The sea continued to run high, south/southwest, and with swift yawning, opened a vial of wrath that forced our ship the Clipper Adventurer to lurch heavily in the deep rollers of the Southern Ocean. By dinner, glimpses of … Continued
As Doug & Co. prepare to cross the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula, those at home can get ready to follow the ship’s course online. The ship, the “Clipper Adventurer,” is outfitted with a GPS system that will track its progress throughout the course of the journey, and is denoted by the abbreviation “CPA” … Continued
The light is flat. High fast clouds scrub the blue out of the wide Patagonia sky. Keoki, Tim and I consider carving ego, swan-like turns down the lower coral-horned ridge of the big south-facing wall of terrain above the Glaciar Martial within the Provincia de Tierra del Fuego. Poles tapping their Braille dance, the breath … Continued
by Robert Frohlich The sun, pale and without rays, pounded down leaden heat in an indecisive light. It made me squirm as if I’d been prodded under the fifth rib. Hanging in Plaza de Dorrego, a spacious functioning outdoor market within the rakish barrio of San Telmo, I gathered why this section of the city … Continued