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…
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Ten Thousand Miles by Freight Train
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…
Shackleton journey to be re-enacted
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.…
Crossing frozen Alaska by bike — a hundred years ago
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…
My favorite hallucination
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…
Explorer attempts January solo ascent of Denali
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…
Round-the-world cyclist defies expectations
After pedaling more than 18,000 miles around the world in 152 days, becoming the first woman to complete the challenge within the “world record” parameters, Juliana Buhring emerged with this insight: There’s no such thing…
Antarctic cyclist aborts mission
While we were away on holiday break here at Half Past Done, Antarctic cyclist Eric Larsen decided to halt his ride toward the South Pole and turn around to pedal back to the coast. He…
Reveal the Path
As an avid consumer of outdoor media, I’ve read a small library’s worth of adventure books, but I have yet to cultivate a similar passion for adventure films. I think the reason for this is…
Endurance trekking across New Zealand
Jez Bragg, an English trail runner who is most well-known for winning the 2010 Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, is currently aiming to set the speed standard for a new 3,054-kilometer route across New Zealand,…