mountain climbing is extended periods of intense boredom, interrupted by ...
<photo: abseiling training> approximately once every 4 years, one day is added to the month of February. with that we have 29 days in...
in pursuit of happiness: we fear loss more than we value gain
<on the way up to the peak of Mount Elbrus> people prefer avoiding losses to making gains. this is behavior is known as loss aversion....
in pursuit of happiness: you have to keep running just to stay in the same place
<photo: windmills going round and round endlessly in the Gobi Desert> would winning the million dollar Toto first prize make you the...
what if someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy?
<photos: in the middle of the Gobi Desert> the Gobi Desert measures over 1,600 km by 800 km and occupies 1,295,000 square km. it is the...
it's just 5 more minutes to the peak!
<photo: at 3653m, it's just 5 more minutes to the summit of mount kinabalu. (actually it's at least another 2 more hours)> the summit...
no one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich
<photo: dawn at the peak of Mount Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia> in the book "Outliers", the author Malcolm Gladwell claims that the key to...
journey to the point of no return 破釜沉舟
<photo: foothills of Mount Elbrus, southern Russia> General Xiang Yu crossed the Yangtze River with an army of 20,000 Chu soldiers to...
journey to the west II
<photo: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, USA> gold was discovered on 24 January 1848 in California. prior to this entirely random...
journey to the west I
<photo: Mogao Caves, located on the Silk Route at the edge of the Gobi Desert in Gansu province, China> the Mogao Caves, also known as...
when you can't see where you are going
<photo: on the slopes of Mount Rinjani, Lombok> because of the altitude, mountains make their own weather. it's not easy to forecast the...