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Mongolia-Russia canoe update: Arriving at Lake Baikal, Siberia

Sarah, Eric, Elsa and Ulysse are eager to paddle on Lake Baikal. They arrived in the delta of the Selenge River just before reaching Lake Baikal. The waters were separated into as many small rivers. The Russian landscape changed; mountains disappeared and cooler temperatures are expected.

Mongolia-Russia canoes arrive at Lake Baikal

Laura Dekker enjoying peace and space

Erden Eruc: Streamlined reports & broken oars

Bonnier continues row from Resolute Bay

Bering Strait kiteboard crossing needs wind

Laura Dekker: 14, sets sail around the world

South Africa Lipton Cup Sailing Challenge

Greenland: Eric Brossier & hybrid-motorboat

Oceans Editor Jon Amtrup sailing Svalbard

Ousland and Peter 1st on Laptev Sea

Sarah McNair-Landry: NP ski & Mongolia canoe

Kalch doing 7 rivers on 7 continents

Laura Dekker will stop on her way

114 year old Norwegian record broken

EXPLORERSWEB AT A GLANCE

Interview Gerfried Göschl: Winter GI ahead

Interview Gerfried Göschl: Winter GI ahead

Mongolia-Russia canoes arrive at Lake Baikal

K2: Sky-skier Fredrik Ericsson in fatal fall

SOS call: Polish climbers missing

Contact Augmented - Interview with Tom

Everest: ExWeb interview with Eric Larsen

Chhiring Dorje Sherpa: Alternative route K2

Several unsuccessful attempts have been made by Everest commercial outfitters to "tame" K2. Independent Italian K2 summiteer and star climber Nives Meroi told ExplorersWeb after...

ExWeb special: A magic mountain named K2

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Marco Confortola: Reflections on Heroism

Ang Tshering: Everest, plane crash, Mingma I

Best of ExWeb 2008: K2, Gerard McDonnell

K2: Sky-skier Fredrik Ericsson in fatal fall

ExWeb interview with Sara at Montagna.org

Miss Oh summit picture: What's your take?

"The picture you have seen was taken five or ten meters below the summit [of Kanchenjunga]," Miss Oh stated in an email to ExplorersWeb. Debate is open and opinions are welcomed,...

Cape Cornwall to Cape Horn with Noonan

ExplorersWeb Week in Review

Pak wrap: K2 first, then Mars says Giuseppe

ExWeb Special: China - 2 years after

Polar bear attack on Greenland Archaeologist

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OCEANS LATEST NEWS

Mongolia-Russia canoe update: Arriving at Lake Baikal, Siberia

Laura Dekker enjoying peace and space

Erden Eruc update: Another broken oar, a streamlined dispatch system and a one stop shop

Mathieu Bonnier continued Northwest Passage row from Resolute Bay

Bering Strait kiteboard crossing waiting for wind

Laura Dekker sets off on her circumnavigation

Lipton Cup Sailing Challenge about to start in Cape Town, South Africa

Eric Brossier and his hybrid-motorboat in Greenland

ExWeb interview with Oceans Editor Jon Amtrup sailing around Svalbard: “Safety is a state of mind”

North Pole Yacht Race: Neck to neck

ExWeb Interview with Sarah McNair-Landry, "The North Pole is a race against the clock"

Daydreamed himself to the longest rivers

Teen sail update: Laura is off

New transatlantic rowing record

Wrap up: Arctic sailing 2010

Updated: Svalbard kayakers attacked by Polar Bear

Teen sail update: Dekker is free to sail

Challenging ice conditions in the Arctic

Girls around Britain: Setting a new record

Jury-rigged Italian finishes circumnavigation

Teen sailing update: Nerve wrecking week for Dekker

North Pole Yacht Race: Russians in trouble

Erden Eruc update: On the Indian Ocean

Canoe through Mongolia

Never Ending Voyage: Deadliest Catch area

North Pole Yacht Race: Russians in Murmansk

ExWeb interview with Bastien Demange: To cross Canada by canoe

Polar bear country: Kayaking round Svalbard

FEATURES

Teen sails ExWeb Circumnavigation special: What is around the world ?

Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Sarah Outen, Indian Ocean crossing

ExplorersWeb Year in Review: The Oceans

World records broken at Freediving World Championships

17-year old Ryan Langley preparing for a sail around the world non-stop

Mick Dawson and Chris Martin finished their row across the North Pacific Ocean in 189 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes

Atlantic Rowing Race update: The teams

Laura Dekker update: The Judge ruled again

HumanEdgeTech final: expedition power, the latest buzz

HumanEdgeTech special: expedition power

INTERVIEWS

ExWeb interview with Oceans Editor Jon Amtrup sailing around Svalbard: “Safety is a state of mind”

Challenging ice conditions in the Arctic

ExWeb interview: Ousland to sail round the North Pole

ExWeb interview with Ian Couch and Ben Thackwray (final), “Rowing and skiing require the mind to push the body”

Teen girls sail update: Abby Sunderland in Cape Town, “Have high expectations of yourself and go for it”

ExWeb interview with Colin Quincey, “Plan, plan, plan and then give it your best shot”

ExWeb interview with Shaun Quincey, “As long as I beat Dad’s record on the Tasman Sea I am happy”

GPS vs. sextant, a sailor's tale of times new and bygone

ExWeb interview with Geoff Holt, "I'll be returning as master of a sailing yacht, despite my disability"

Part 1 interview with expedition tech guru Tom Sjogren, final "we are the kind of animals who thrive on adversity"

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Sarah Outen, Indian Ocean crossing

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LATEST EXWEB NEWS

ExWeb interview with Gerfried Göschl: Winter G1 ahead with Louis Rousseau and Alex Chicon

SOS call: Polish climbers missing in Kazakhstan

Vogel Family on Bikes update: The cancer kids of Cochabamba

Miss Oh on Kanchenjunga 2009 summit picture: "It's five or ten meters below the top"

Christian Stangl's K2 summit controversy

ExWeb interview with Eric Larsen: "Even in the fall, Everest is hardly the solitary experience of polar travel"

Korean Alpine Federation questions Miss Oh's Kangchenjunga 2009 summit

Peter Gostelow Africa cycle update: Mosquito bed nets and unspoiled beaches

Green Traveler halted by Indian authorities, “My journey is not just a green gimmick”

Climbers on the move to help Pakistan

AdventureStats on Juanito and Pauner Annapurna: summits are valid

Charlie Frew’s off-road drive through Mongolia finished

ExWeb special on Everest: The autumn of the solo climbers

Ang Tshering Sherpa reports from Nepal: Plane crash, Mingma's 13th 8000er, floods, and upcoming Everest action

Alastair Humphreys and Chris Herwig’s Iceland trek

Nepal plane crash: names of western victims released

Everest & Himalaya 2010 Season’s End Chronicle, take 5: Special report--The Spring of Annapurna

Helen Lloyd’s Africa cycle: Through Cameroon

No survivors in plane crash near Kathmandu - six foreigners killed

ExplorersWeb Week in Review

Everest & Himalaya 2010 Season’s End Chronicle, take 4: Serial summiteers, lower peaks, new routes, rescues and Sherpa racers

Greenland update: Christian Eide and team skiing towards DYE II

Everest north side: Alberto Zerain acclimatizing at 6,000m

Pakistan floods update--Fabrizio Zangrilli from Skardu: "It's a disaster"

Eric Brossier and his hybrid-motorboat in Greenland

Everest & Himalaya 2010 Season’s End Chronicle, take 3: Firsts, records and 14x8000ers happy endings

ExWeb interview with Sean Burch: “Every goal you set for yourself, you first must be mentally prepared”

Everest & Himalaya 2010 Season’s End Chronicle, take 2: The final chapter of the women's race

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