The solo sailing attempts by two of the solo sailors is progressing well. Both are all of just 16 years and are attempting feats well beyond their years. One of these is Abby Sunderland from the USA with Jessica Watson being Australian. Abby is near the Cape Horn, which is the southernmost tip of the continent of South America. The winds can be strong and the waves quite choppy as she tries to get around this dangerous are which has been the bane of sailor for centuries. Her father has already come to Argentina and is likely to sail out with some local sailors to get a glimpse of his daughter as she makes her way from here towards Africa in a bid to be the youngest to circumnavigate the globe.

Jessica Watson from Australia is the competitor to Abby’s attempt and she has now left Africa far behind. She is well along the Southern Ocean and could be reaching home not too long away. As she had started from Sydney, she would be returning home back to Sydney and has already covered 18,000 nautical miles. At 16, Jessica is already a veteran and no stranger to danger on the seas. The race between Jessica and Abby for the title will be interesting to watch.

It’s a strange name for someone to be called a Gear Junkie, but that is the name that has been given to Stephen Regenold. He is part of the Hanes brands Climb with us expedition. There is a reason for the name of Gear Junkie being given to Stephen. He just loves to try out gear of various kinds and take a kick out of using and reviewing, praising or trashing stuff that he has used. He is quite good at this too, and you can expect him to try out a lot of gear in the forthcoming expedition too.

Stephen is going with expedition team members on a trek that starts around 40 miles from the Base Camp. The place is known as Lukla. Once the team reaches the Base Camp, Stephen will be handing out with the team members. He will write down and send report so the activities and the adventures of the expedition. The expedition members will check out some wonderful gear like the Champion Super Suit which is not only light and thin, but remarkably warm, too. Trust the Gear Junkie to send us great reports of all this as he is one of the most qualified men around to do this.

There are many aspects of Nepal that come alive once March comes and spring finally sets in, people star responding to Kathmandu calling after the long and cold winter, and as people flock from around the globe, Kathmandu starts bustling with lots of activity. Tourism and mountain climbing is the mainstay of the economy here and it’s great that people do answer to the sound of Kathmandu Calling. Apart from the majestic and proud Mount Everest, there are so many other peaks that call out to avid climbers and mountaineers and ensure that they have the time of their lives.

There are many teams that have gone up to Base Camp from Kathmandu and indeed Edurne Pasaban’s team has moved from Base Camp to camp 1 and also past Camp 2 where they are now fixing the ropes up to lead to Camp 3. So this team is well on its way and is making encouraging progress with each passing day. There is another team led by Oh Eun-Sun of South Korea who is also here, having just one 8,000 meter plus peak to be added to her repertoire right now. All of this makes for exciting reading in the days and couple of months ahead, so keep reading this space for more.

There are many weather conditions that are strange that are attacking the Catlin Arctic Survey team. These conditions are quite weird and are being described as the weirdest conditions ever by the team members. The expedition goes to the top of the world and the North Pole as well. The problem is that this kind of weather is affecting the morale of the team and not allowing it to make good progress as it combats these strange conditions and situations, the conditions get tougher by the day, even as the weather is quite unrelenting in its ferocity.

Weather conditions have been constantly shifting and moving, breaking and again shifting. The ice is also wobbling and bouncing s well as bending which makes it much difficult for the team to make headway and get ahead on its tough quest. The patches of ice are not only unstable bit also treacherous and if anyone falls into a crevice, it could get messy and very dangerous too. There is a lot of moving ice that is fast, along with amounts of water and floes that are made up of breaking and shifting ice blocks. All of this makes progress painfully slow and quite irritating too.

You may be aware of the fact that there was a terrible earthquake in Haiti in the beginning of 2010 that wrecked havoc and led to many deaths in this impoverished nation. Others have been many efforts made to ensure that relief and rescue operations at Haiti get the best in terms of suitable aid and help monetarily and financially. This is why Cole Starkey, a long distance cyclist has set out on a cycle ride to bring attention to the plight of survivors and the need to help out the victims of the vagaries of nature. This is a ride that would span as much as 3,000 miles. One hopes that he would do well and get a lot of money to help out those in dire need.

Cole has decided to ride across 3000 miles on the Atlantic Cots of the US, right from Pennsylvania due to Florida. After that he would go along the west to Louisiana and finally east to New Orleans. This is no mean task or small change as it’s a ride spanning such a huge distance. This will take almost one month to be over and you can also check out Cole’s blogs as he has been blogging on the go.

We all like to read and hear about teen adventures. But what is more amazing is that teenagers seem to be pushing the envelope further and further each year. There seems to be nothing that can hold these teenagers back as they want to do things that had baffled older people almost double their age. Take for example Jordan Romero who wants to conquer the Everest. Nothing wrong with that, as there are so many people who routinely want to conquer the Everest every year. It’s just that Jordan is just 13 years of age and this raises questions as to what is the right age at which people can start taking part in such adventures and expeditions.

There are many things that seem to be going for Jordan. He is well trained and has the guts and the grit to take a good shot at the majestic Mount Everest. But whatever the case, it is rather strange for someone sp young to attempt to scale the highest mountain on the earth. No matter how well you are prepared, it just doesn’t seem okay to be trying to attempt such things much earlier than the right age for it. Maybe I am old fashioned, but I’m sure I am not the only one who thinks this way.

There are a lot of people who debate about and have set opinions on what should be the right age to conquer the great mountain in Everest 2010. While the debate continues, more and more folks continue to attempt and conquer the mountain every year, in a bid to break the record for the youngest and the oldest person to scale Mount Everest. This is quite amazing and also dangerous as you now have kids as young as 13 trying to climb the mountain and set a record. There was Miss Ming Kipa from Nepal who has already scaled the mountain from the Northern or the Tibetan side as Nepal does not allow folks below the age of 16 to attempt a climb from its side of the Mountain.

On the other had, the 76 year old Min Bahadur Sherchan has the record for being the oldest person to have scaled Mount Everest in all its racy challenges and all the obstacles that come along the way.  It is now said that Sailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, the former Foreign Minister of the country of Nepal will make a bid on Everest, at the age of 80 to try and break Sherchan’s record.

As far as Himalaya 2010 goes, there are so many teams that are making way and progress quite fast. These teams are determined to get past BC to Camp 1 and also then to camp 2 as soon as possible. There are also some teams that are there in the ground and who would need some more time to start off. After all, once you are in the Himalaya 2010 you need to be absolutely sure that you are ready to take on the many challenges along the expedition way. One of the teams is that of Edurne Pasaban and her tea, which have not only gone fm BC to Camp 1 but now they have set their sights on nothing less than Camp 2.

As for now, Edurne and her team will hike back up to C1 to spend the night there. Once the night is over they will make their way up to Camp 2. Edurne is Spanish and as a climber she has quite a few laurels to her name. All of this means that she would like to quickly dispense with Annapurna and Shisha Pangma peaks to her list to complete her set of peaks that are 8,000 meters and above.

There are times you just marvel at the kind of improvements and advances that have taken place in the world of communications. Indeed, so many folks do not even know that even during Everest 2010 it has become possible to Tweet away to keep folks back at home in the know. This is what Alan Arnette has been able to dive home, as he Tweets away sweetly from Everest 2010. And this is what we are discussing today, that communication modes have got totally transformed over the years. Now you have so many ways of keeping in

With Everest 2010 you would know that things have changed drastically. In earlier times, people would just vanish for a month or two once they got up to Everest and remain inaccessible for a coulee of months. Now people back home get daily and perhaps even hourly reports though Twitter and Facebook. This is also true for people who have taken to sat phones and who depend on it for dear life. The spread of the internet has made all this possible such that even when you are in faraway Nepal, you can be connected with family and friends from round the globe.

There is something quite thrilling and almost out of the world at the Base Camp when you get to Everest 2010. The place is just buzzing with so much activity and there is a sense of anticipation that there would be records broken and lots of new standards set once the expedition gets along. This is what is true of Jon Miller and some of the other trekkers at the Base Camp. These trekkers have to take a large amount of prescription drugs just to stay fit and fine, which is quite unbelievable, which is because they want to address altitude sickness.

What is so exciting about the Base Camp is also the fact that there are many expedition teams that keep getting out and starting off on their climbs. The view is spectacular and all so alluring that you get a wonderful feeling just being up there at the foot of the mighty Mount Everest. These people get to look like little moving dots as they way up the mountainside.  This looks great against the backdrop of the white snow covered mountain, and when you zoom in you can see the details of the climbers more easily. All of this make for wonderful pictures and also great copy as you recount these adventures online.