Expedition update
We have a few updates from some of the adventures we’ve been following at Half Past Done. On Mount Denali, Lonnie Dupre is descending from his high camp after opting to end his bid to…
We have a few updates from some of the adventures we’ve been following at Half Past Done. On Mount Denali, Lonnie Dupre is descending from his high camp after opting to end his bid to…
The gauge of good adventure literature is how deep the story injects its readers into the adventure. Does the story hold its readers at the periphery, offering only wide-angle views of a bewildering canyon? Does…
As someone who frequently ventures outdoors and sometimes far away from help, I like to think I’m well prepared for mishaps along the trail. I carry food and water, warm clothing and rain gear, tools…
The round-trip, solo, unsupported journey from land to the North Pole and back has been described as “the last great challenge left to man” — one of the few large expeditions on Earth that has yet…
It’s the greatest survival story in modern history — Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 voyage to the Antarctic with the doomed ship Endurance. Just one day’s sail from the continent, the Endurance became trapped in sea ice.…
They were perhaps North America’s first endurance racers — the grizzled men and a few women who set out across wild expanses in a race to reach a land of uncertain but undeniably vast fortunes. The…
Men in dark suits, kickboxing squirrels, mariachi singers … you just never know what might creep out of the shadows during an endurance race. And as you linger on the edge of a cliff, transfixed…
It’s the Land of the Midnight Sun, so it makes sense that Whitehorse, Yukon, is home to the only 24-hour mountain bike race where headlights are not only unnecessary, they’re forbidden. But where there is…
Driven toward the gold fields of California, miners, adventurers, and fortune seekers blazed a path across the scorched earth of the Anza-Borrego desert, a route now known as the Great Overland Stage Route of 1849.…
After a week of waiting out weather delays in Talkeetna, Alaska, climber and polar guide Lonnie Dupre successfully reached the Kahiltna Glacier on Tuesday, the first step in a bid to become the first solo climber…