British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler have been on an around the world cruise aboard their ship the Lynn Rival for some time now, and they've even been blogging about their adventures on this website. But last Friday, the couple went missing, and...

Paraplegic athlete Chris Waddell is making his summit push on Kilimanjaro today, and we could get confirmation of his summit at any time. If successful, he'll become the first person to reach the top of Africa's tallest mountain without the u...

Today's stage of the Tour de France was the final individual time trial for 2009, and it promised to once again shake up the standings, as the climbers who took center stage the past few days were pushed aside in favor of the riders who specializ...

After racing hard for a week an a half, today is the first rest day of the 2009 Tour de France, and after three tough stages in the Pyrenees, the riders are welcoming the reprieve. The standings remain exactly the same coming out of the weekend, wi...

Australia has always had a spot on my list of places that I wanted to visit. It is a huge country, the size of the United States, and yet only 20 million people live there. That means vast, remote spaces, that remain largely uninhabited, spread acros...