Honza Lasko is short on hyperbole but long on delivery. Read more in the DB Trips of his descent of one of NZ’s biggest falls.

“Before I'd ever heard the term, I've always felt it gnawing. I should hope we all have, to some degree the desire, no, the NEED to get out there and push the comfort zones. Continually.  Perhaps it really is an addiction; the constant need, the empty void when it hasn't been fed.

We just aren't the types to sit in front of the tube in their old age and talk about what they USED to do. And I've found that various pursuits provide nutrition from several of the essential "Food Groups."  Climbing.... it's an exercise in fear management, in making calculated decisions under pressure”. Extreme skiing... reflex decisions and reactions that have to be faster than your mind can actually think.

Rafting hang-gliding, adventuring. Pushing yourself to limits that you  aren't sure are possible, and ending up in situations from which self extraction takes creativity, strength and little bit of luck. The beast is always feeding, the appetite varied, the hunger insatiable".

Enough said, Dirt Bag trip section for his new route in the A‘stan.

Juan Calle is running a trekking company from his home country of Columbia. After training as a civil engineer, he wisely turned his back on such nonsense and came to Oz to become a climbing guide.

This disappointed his friends and extended family, so as an alumni of the late cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, he returned home and set up his guiding business called unimaginatively but accurately SOUTH AMERICAN EXPEDITIONS. Partners section, check it here.

A Commodore, some creek boats and a verrrry big gorge. Read more of the story in the DB section.