There are two places you don't want to be caught without water - a water balloon fight and, of course, the desert. But sometimes things don't go as planned.
After 11 seasons, four runner-up world title finishes to his name, and not a single win this year on the ASP tour, Joel Parkinson has finally come out on top.
Thor Heyerdahl set off one of the greatest, seemingly-doomed-to-failure expeditions of all time: A 3,800-nautical-mile voyage from South America to Polynesia.
Enter your new best friend, the VersaClimber. If you've never heard of it, it combines lower and upper body exercise into a "natural" vertical climbing motion.
Italian climbers went to Trento, Italy, to participate in the Block and Wall bouldering competition—which took place not on boulders but walls and buildings.
Now the group is traveling during a record-breaking season of rain and cold. The effects of endless precipitation brings the teams morale to an all-time low.
The competition, often hailed as the most progressive surfing event of the year, takes place at the renowned break at Lower Trestles in San Clemente, CA.
More than 50 films are showing, and the guest speakers are a who's who of big wall climbers, kayakers, skiers, skateboarders, mountaineers and storytellers.
This scion in surfing is at the top of the new school class and has a hefty stack of nontraditional sponsors. He's also 17 (that's where chaperones come in).