On a trip with Responsible Travel to Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Reserve, the author got lost and found in all the best ways.
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On a trip with Responsible Travel to Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Reserve, the author got lost and found in all the best ways.
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This list of 68 climbs is effectively a "long list" used to select nominees of the prestigious alpine award.
The 73-year-old anti-whaling activist faces extradition to Japan, where he could be slapped with up to 15 years in prison for interfering with their illegal whaling industry.
Local authorities have since arrested Raineri's tour operator, charging him with "an unlawful act [causing] the death of another person."
Ernest Shackleton died aboard "Quest" in 1922. It's wreck was just discovered off the coast of Canada.
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