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Monday, August 4, 2008

6:51AM

At least 11 climbers dead after an avalanche on K2 sweeps away lead ropes.

I want to go help with the rescue efforts, but Mom won't let me ... I mean, I know I don't have the training (yet!) to reach the peak, but surely they need help on the lower slopes, too, right? Or even at base camp--if nothing else, I make a mean tuna fish sandwich. What's the use of being ungrounded if you can't do the stuff that matters?

I tried Dad, too, but he just said that if Mom says no, that means no, and he wouldn't go against her wishes.

Guess I'll just have to wait for more news. I hate waiting. Waiting is way harder than adventuring!

(mount an expedition)

Monday, December 17, 2007

9:28PM

Does this mean I get to visit New Mexico? I've always wanted to visit New Mexico.

Mom says I'm still grounded, but I'll just have to find a way around that. Because clearly, New Mexico is the sort of state that appreciates adventurers.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

9:56AM - Technically, I'm not a pirate. I'm a privateer.

But September 19 is still one of my favorite days.

(Do privateers still get to say arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?)


My pirate name is:
Dread Pirate Tiernay Flint

Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you 
have a keen head for how to make a profit. 
Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, 
also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. 
Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.

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Saturday, June 30, 2007

12:15PM - School's out!

And not a moment too soon.

Man, it seems like I've been in the fourth grade forever.

Mom says that's just because time passes more slowly when you're a kid, but I'm not so sure.

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11:55AM

Samantha Larson has made it safely back down Everest, and has posted some of her Everest photos. Go her!

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Sunday, May 20, 2007

9:23PM

Eighteen-year-old Samantha Larson scales Everest. And becomes the youngest person to scale all seven summits, as well.

The youngest person to scale Everest ever was a fifteen year old Sherpa--cooler still.

Even cooler--Samantha Larson scaled the first of the seven summits, Kilimanjaro, when she was only twelve. That's not much older than I am!

Here's Samantha Larson's web page and blog.

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Thursday, January 4, 2007

12:07PM

A complete timeline of Shackleton's Endurance Expedition.

A more detailed account of the same expedition.

"By the beginning of August, food was starting to become in short supply. They dug up old seal bones and stewed them in sea water along with seaweed, which they found 'very tasty.'"

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

4:57PM - Someone tell Snopes

You know the ad Shackleton placed for the Endurance expedition? The famous one: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.

I would totally have answered that ad. Except that it probably never existed.

Huh.

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4:46PM - Sometimes, it begins with a dream

"But strangely enough, the circumstance which actually determined me to become an explorer was a dream I had when I was twenty-two. We were beating out to New York from Gibraltar, and I dreamt I was standing on the bridge in mid-Atlantic and looking northward. It was a simple dream. I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns." -- Sir Ernest Shackleton

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

5:55PM - Oscar. Gunner. Con. Towser .

Well, okay, those were the dogs. There were also men who were part of the Ernest Shackleton's Ross Sea party.

Is it just me, or does it seem like they had a harder time than those involved with the other half of Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition, the better known Endurance party?

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10:39AM

How to regain control of a runaway camel. Useful!

(Thanks, [info]lnhammer.)

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

3:57PM - Geographer is one of those words

The Society of Woman Adventurers Geographers

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Saturday, December 23, 2006

5:41PM

Giant squid captured and photographed! :-)

Only, it died from injuries it sustained during the capture! :-(

(With thanks to [info]lucy_anne for the link. She'd never let a giant squid die on her watch!)

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

8:54AM - Going to travel them all

The world's most dangerous roads.

(Thanks for the link, [info]lnhammer. If I need a guide when I go travelling those roads, I'll let you know!)

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Sunday, December 17, 2006

3:25PM - Year of the adventurer

March 2007 is the start if an International Polar Year (IPY).

The International Geophysical Year (IGY), back in 1957-58, got us a year-round South Pole station. The last IPY was in 1932-33.

During the other IPYs, scientists spent 10 percent of their time on science, and 90 percent on survival, according to Wikipedia, anyway. (Makes note to track down better sources.) I bet this time they'll get to spend like 20 percent or more on survival. Who knows what they'll find!

I hope maybe there'll be another IGY or IPY when I'm an adult and can get out of South Newbury, too!

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

12:09PM - Northern lights!

Oooh! I may need to sneak up onto the roof tonight to see this!

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10:33AM - On this day

On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person ever to reach the South Pole.

It's also my birthday. Clearly, I was destined to be an adventurer! :-)

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Monday, December 11, 2006

1:48PM - Sea stories

James D. Macdonald talks about sea stories.

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1:17PM - Too, too depressing

( Three states! Just three! And we were only driving through New Jersey, so it doesn't really count. )

And, even more depressing:

( I can't even claim Canada! )

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Tuesday, December 5, 2006

1:42PM - I bet they'll need adventurers here!

NASA planning moon base.

(Thanks for the link, [info]akamarykate.)

Nasa wants to have returned to the moon by 2020, with 30-day residential missions by 2024, increasing to six months by the end of that year.

By 2024 I'll no longer be living in South Newbury for sure!

Meanwhile, how did I not know there was a Shackleton Crater?

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