Extreemblog presents a small preview of a new articles series called: Lost in Action: The Adventurers. Every week, I will present you one famous adventure personality that changed the world we now live in.
Extraordinary lives are almost always rich in action, travel, passion, dreams, sometimes love and treasures. When you live life to the full, you don’t worry about the future, you just grab what you have and seek for more adventures.

Note: This Is A Press Release by NISSAN Outdoor Games

A sports film competition attracting world-class sportsmen, athletes turned film-makers and actors in a race against the clock – they have one week. This is the original concept of the NISSAN OUTDOOR GAMES at Interlaken.
This “Extreme Games” is the only event of its kind and brings together the best kayakers, climbers, mountain bikers, paragliders and BASE jumpers in the world for a show that can be watched by the public on the big screen in the centre of town on …

Navigate by the stars,
Tell time without a watch,
Start a fire without a match,
Make an igloo,
Build your own canoe,
And be prepared for any challenge.
That’s in short what the book, Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer, is about.  The guidebook, actually, is a great position for any adventure parent.

Do you know what actually happened between Columbus’s discovery of America in 14920 and the Pilgrims’ immigration in 1620 on that very continent?
Neither did me or the author, Tony Horwitz, when paying a visit to famous Plymouth Rock. He realized he didn’t have any clue just as any other average American.
So he set off across the continent to rediscover the wild era of Europeans roaming the New World in search for gold, glory, youth, peace and…