Enduro Europe // Path Finder // Mountain bike films // Adventure MTB riding through Poland, Romania, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Croatia // Epic Rides //

Ibis Mojo HD3 [Write up for this build on Digital Hippie]

// What is Adventure? // Nanga Parbat First Solo Ascent - Reinhold Messner 1978 // In nature there is danger and that is where adventure lives // Expeditions // 7 Summits // Everest // K2 // Global Explorers //

Nanga Parbat First Solo Ascent - Reinhold Messner On Nanga Parbat Summit August 9 1978

What is adventure? 

In this short documentary interview with Reinhold Messner he explains his view on adventure, he explains - when you are exploring where you are far from human civilization or rescue support. It is less about the 7 highest summits to climb in the world, and more about remote locations where you go to self-survive the nature because in nature is danger and the art of surviving it is where adventure lives.

Reinhold Messner is a mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author from the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol. [Wikipedia] He became famous as a lumberjack style mountaineer who chose to climb 14 8000 meter + peaks like Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. On December 30, 1989, Messner crossed Antarctica to the South Pole on skis with his partner Arved Fuchs. He speaks of the dangers of exploring, where nature and you meet face-to-face and surviving those conditions while exploring is the simple definition of what adventure means to him.

What is controversial about "World First Expeditions?" Even Reinhold Messner refutes the importance of completing the First/8000+ meter summits, while including the 7 Summits in his interview, lesser mountain First Ascents 6000+ meter peaks still remain - So, I ask the same question what is adventure? Messner suggests it's going places on your own remote from civilization, local support or chance of rescue and surviving all the inherent dangers that can occur in nature - alone. Nearing the human limits, this is definitely where adventure can end a journey to the soul. Few will ever risk their lives to experience this first hand.

[Authors notes] Reinhold Messner is acclaimed as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time. He was the first person to climb all 14 8,000-meter peaks—the tallest mountains in the world—and one of the first to climb Mount Everest without any supplemental oxygen. Hear Messner recount what it was like to climb Everest and what drives his passion for adventure.[National Geographic]

A TransAm bicycle tour // Recumbent cycling through Wyoming USA // Adventure Cycling in America // Deserts of China // The Himalayas on tour //

Cycle touring across the Taklamakan Desert in 2011 [Perich travels, Korean-World]. This tour was awesome, I started on the slow boat to China from South Korea. And continuing from Beijing, I took a train to Urumqi in northwest China [Turkestan] and cycled the deserts first along the southern Silk Road before entering the Aksai Chin and returning to Kashgar. I continued my trek through Sichuan (western Tibet) and Yunnan Provinces via Chengdu, Kangding, Xicheng, Lugu Lake, Lijiang, Deqin. 3200 kilometers or 2000 miles later, I lost 53 pounds (24 kilograms) preparing and riding the tour. [Video from HimalayasX2011]



I discovered some great cycle touring video collections, this one covers the Trans American route across Wyoming, United States and seeing the scenery reminds me of motorcycling there 1994-1996.
[Authors notes:] I rode my bicycle self supported across the USA in the summer of 2011. This is a little video series that highlights parts of my trip.


Adventure Cycling Association just published this great short film on bicycle touring the American TransAm route. Videos like this are inspiration to go out and ride anywhere. [Authors notes:]With the incomparable Madison Range as a backdrop, cyclists explore the backroads, farmer's markets, and small towns of Big Sky Country using pedal power alone.

Urban Downhill Mountain Biking // Tbilisi Georgia // Redbull Mountain Bike // Adventure Cycling // Scott Gambler 710

The Scott Gambler 710 (in burnt orange/black colors) a Shimano-equipped DH machine with 27.5 inch wheels and boxer-framed floating suspension, the FOX RC4 Coil Kashmira rear suspension unit.  This 6061 aluminum hydroformed frame is custom-butted. The BB height is adjustable and the headset angle are also custom adjusted for rider preferences. A World Cup clone, setup with Syncros Handlebar components and features larger diameter 27.5 inch DT Swiss wheels with their Competition level steel spokes. The front suspension is completed using Fox Racing's FOX 40 RC2 FIT with 203mm of suspension travel. The price tag is mind-numbing, but the ride is smooth. Priced at a mouth watering $6499.99 MSRP.

 Hydroformed 6061 aluminum linkage.

Kashmira coated Fox Racing Fox 40 RC2 FIT

[Authors notes] Who needs dirt trails when you've got 132 flights of stairs? Filip Polc shot over to Tbilisi, Georgia for a chance to show the locals how urban downhill mountain biking really goes down, hosting a race that ran between urban stair sets and dirt trails in a day filled with all-out riding.

Lines of Lofoten // Adventure Cycling in Norway // Dirtjump and Freeride // Mountain bike films //

Dirtjump mountain biking at Sea Otter Classic 2013

Lines of Lofoten from ANTIMEDIA on Vimeo.

[Authors notes] We spent four weeks in the summer of 2012 building two lines in Lofoten, Norway; a dirt line and a big bike line. Our goal was to capture world-class riding in the untouched and unique nature around Lofoten. Lines of Lofoten - a 5 episode web-series will be released shortly.

Riders: Kristoffer Haugland, Adrian Tell, Didrik Dege Dimmen, Niclas Andersen and Nico Vink
Project manager: Vegeir Selboe Director: Niels Windfeldt Producers: Andreas Braaten and Vegeir Selboe Filmers: Andreas Luft Johannessen, Trond Hansen, Niels Windfeldt and Andreas Braaten
Grip/Drone: Daniell Khardi Ashby Sound: Trond Hansen Music: J Sigsworth
Builders: Kenneth Bøster Helgestad Graphic Design: Dennis Magnus-Andresen 

Crew: Andy Yeyo and Carl Joachim Leegaard [End notes]

Lofoton, Norway is an archipelago [island group or chain] in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperatures relative to it's high latitude. Lofoton is known for a distinctive scenery with mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands [Wiki].

Shifted // Adventure Cycling in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley // Freeride Mountain Bike // Green River, Utah, USA // Mountain Bike film

2012 Rocky Mountain Flatline World Cup freeride mountain bike

[Author's notes] Created by Matt Butterworth and Eric Marciniak of Virtu Media, this will be their first full length film release. Featuring up and coming riders in British Columbia; we follow them throughout the province and down into the United States. Shot on location in Kelowna, Vernon, Vancouver's North Shore, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Vancouver Island, Oyama, and Green River, Utah. [End notes] Freeride is a discipline of mountain biking closely related to downhill biking and dirt jumping focused on tricks, style, and technical trail features. It is now recognized as one of the most popular disciplines within mountain biking. National Geographic lists Utah's Green River mountains as some of the best mountain biking locations out there in the United States.

Danny Macaskill // The Ridge // Isle of Skye - Scotland // Mountain Bike Short Films // MTB Freedom // Trials Cyclist // Epic Rides

Danny Macaskill's new mountain bike film The Ridge // filmed on location // Isle of Skye - Scotland

[Authors notes] #TheRidge is the brand new film from Danny Macaskill… For the first time in one of his films Danny climbs aboard a mountain bike and returns to his native home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland to take on a death-defying ride along the notorious Cuillin Ridgeline.

Isle of Skye (/skaɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò) is the largest and most northerly large island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.[Note 1] The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous center dominated by the Cuillins, the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country.

The Black Cuillin, which are mainly composed of basalt and gabbro, include twelve Munros and provide some of the most dramatic and challenging mountain terrain in Scotland.