Endeavouring to bring change Nov 21, 2009
Horn then moved to Switzerland where he became an instructor for a company offering extreme activities like abseiling, hydrospeed (river boarding), canyoning and rafting. His first adventure saw him descending the Mont Blanc glacier on hydrospeed, finishing at the French Riviera. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
A world in one country Oct 23, 2009
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Scaling glaciers in Colombia Jul 5, 2009
Sheets of sleet and snow flurried across the steep face, gusted near-horizontal by wind canyoning in from the east. Somewhere ahead, Alexander knew, snow drifts obscured the lip of a 1,600-foot vertical drop - certain death to a careless climber. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Travelling in the fast lane before the pain kicks in May 19, 2009
Rafting in Uganda, working with copper miners in Bolivia, trading camels in Iraq, being wooed by royalty in Brunei, being stoned "'cos I was a white chick" in Ethiopia, canyoning in her beloved Madagascar, "the nearest you can get to heaven without dying". Living life not just to the full but to the over-flowing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Wide world of lurve Feb 11, 2009
With an active volcano on its south coast, miles of sunny beaches on the west, fields of sugar cane and vanilla in the east and three impressive cirques (volcanoes than have collapsed in on themselves), Reunion offers up a range of activities from hiking and canyoning to scuba diving and surfing. And if that isn't attraction enough, the island is called Reunion, after all. (iAfrica.com)
