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Dick Proenneke thriving alone in the wilderness of Alaska

2023-06-03 /

Dick Proenneke in “Alone in the Wilderness” is the story of Dick Proenneke living at Twin Lakes in the Alaska wilderness.

Dick retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes. He filmed his adventures so he could show his relatives in the lower 48 states what life was like in Alaska, building his cabin, hunting for food, and exploring the area.

Bob Swerer has used some of the footage from Dick’s films and created 4 videos about Dick, “Alone in the Wilderness”, “Alone in the Wilderness part 2”, “Alaska, Silence and Solitude” and “The Frozen North”. They can purchase from Bob Swerer Productions at the DickProenneke.com website.

Below are some excepts from these films.


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Drumming across the northern Namibian desert in a Land Rover

2023-06-02 /

Darrin, the Roaming Yak, continues his vehicle-based travels in the Kaokoveld/Namib Desert in northern Namibia, visiting each of the marker drums, green, orange, blue and red.

This episode continues the story of a year long stay in Namibia during the Covid19 world-wide lockdowns.

Part 1


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Part 2


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Sherpa guide Kami Rita scales Mount Everest for a record 28th time

2023-05-23 /

Binaj Gurubacharya, writing in Associated Press »

Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for the 28th time Tuesday, beating his own record less than a week after setting it, as two guides compete with each other for the title of most climbs of the world’s highest peak.

Kami Rita, considered one of the greatest mountain guides, reached the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit at 9:20 a.m. local time Tuesday, according to expedition organizer Seven Summits Treks.

His latest climb comes a day after fellow Sherpa guide Pasang Dawa matched his record of 27 trips to the summit.

65 years ago, Ben Carlin became the world’s first, and still only man, to circumnavigate the Earth in an amphibious vehicle

2023-05-14 /
Ben Carlin and Half Safe arrive in Copenhagen

Ben Carlin and Half Safe arrive in Copenhagen (Source » Wikimedia / Public Domain)

Ben Carlin traveled over 17,780 kilometres (11,050 mi) by sea and 62,744 kilometres (38,987 mi) by land during the ten-year journey.  Arriving in Montreal on May 1958, he had passed through 38 countries and two oceans, with the entire trip costing him around $35,000.

Born in Western Australia, he got the idea for his adventure during his time in the Madras sappers of the Indian Army engineers during World War II, but it began in America.

More at Wikipedia »

Fellow adventurer Dan Grec recently found Carlin’s Half-Safe on display at the Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia.


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The Roaming Yak finds himself on a long hard desert slog, only to end up in paradise

2023-04-15 /

At the beginning of the covid pandemic lockdowns, Darrin found himself in Namibia.

Along the way, he started filming his adventures and wildlife he encountered and “somehow have amassed 25 Terabytes of 4K footage shot on 5 different cameras.”

He has started a YouTube series where he shares some of his footage and recounts his wonderful solo adventures during isolation. Below is his latest episode.


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You too can follow along and subscribe to his YouTube channel.

How Kristine Tompkins and some 300 of her closest friends helped protect 15 Million acres in Chile and Argentina

2023-04-13 /

Doug Tompkins; the Tompkinses on the coast of Chilean Patagonia

Outside »

The only way forward was to dive even further into her conservation work. With the help of a roughly 300-person staff at Tompkins Conservation, she exceeded her late husband’s dream of creating 12 national parks. The current count: 15, along with two marine parks and a total of 14.8 million protected acres in Chile and Argentina—an area roughly the size of West Virginia. Those numbers keep expanding, along with Kristine’s seemingly endless supply of energy to continue the work she started with her husband. “I carry Doug around in my pocket. If I get really stuck on something, I simply ask: ‘What would you do?’ I am just grateful that we have this marriage,” she said, still speaking of their union in the present tense. “It’s given me unbelievable strength.”

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