Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Some locals say that it snows about eighty percent of the days at Jackson Holes. You can find of the best powder ever at the Rock Springs bowl. There is supposed to be a new tram in December 2008.
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Mount Cain, Vancouver Island.
There are only two t-bars and they are only open from […]

Niger River Traders
The captain of a pirogue always uses the same techniques when landing. The villages are compulsory stops and the river traders give presents to the local policemen.  The main cargo is the revered and valuable “white gold” - salt from the Sahara as well as bags of rice. Tuareg traders on the Niger […]

Searchers have found the body of a Melbourne man who went missing whilst climbing a New Zealand mountain. Alan Beck was 49 and is the father of two children. He was a New Zealand Native who was living in Melbourne, Australia. The mountain climber had gone missing after filthy weather had forced him and three […]

Ancient Olympia
In 200 BC Pausanias The Greek adventurer  wrote a lot about the early Olympic Games and their sites in Olympia. Pausanias wrote his chronicles in the second century. But these sites were only rediscovered in the 18th century. 
At Olympia the archaeological excavations systematically began in the nineteenth century  by German archaeologists. They used the […]