Adventurer-with-a-difference tackles the great Australian outback
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Lloyd Scott has walked the length of Loch Ness underwater and plodded the London Marathon in an antique diving suit, but he admitted he'll have to cheat to accomplish his latest feat -- riding an antique bicycle across Australia's desert outback in a tweed suit.
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Frostbite and hundreds of miles of icy crevasses pose timeless dangers in a new international race to the South Pole nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat Britain's Robert Scott to reach it.
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Sloping off: Nathan Deakes walks with one foot off the ground after his disqualification from the men&#39;s 50km walk. Photo: AP Picture:MARK BAKER.
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Chennai: Damien Martynâs success provides another example of the gameâs ironies. Having produced, prospered and peppered on the hard and bouncy tracks of Perth, Martyn has emerged one of Australiaâs
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Deadly redback spiders lurking in letterboxes or kangaroos bounding along air strips are occupational hazards for "flying postman" Dave Funnell on his 620-mile outback mail run.
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Newbie to the virtual world tries to find her way around the vast continent.
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Between trail running and a walk in the woods, thereâs a new aerobic workout.
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Travel: Isabel Choat embarks on a walk with a difference - following a nomad family through a part of Morocco few tourists get to see.
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From an auteur -masala entertainer, John has decided to re-position his image to a more a fun-loving outdoor and sporty entertainer.
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Peter Lonard recounted a story two days before the Australian Open started last week about how he&#39;d had a seminal golfing moment on Sydney&#39;s The Australian Golf Course, his favourite course.
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AN AUSTRALIAN search and rescue officer hacredited a Stabi-Craft boat made in Southland as a lifesaver after a dramatic rescue on the Murray River at the weekend.
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Travel: Patrick Steel travels south past Tasmania to Bruny Island, a laidback haven where tourism works by local word of mouth and the fish are plentiful
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MELBOURNE -- Maybe no man is an island, but this underpopulated Pacific isle called Australia -- 20 million strong -- is riding on one man. Riding for dear life because glowering yet flowering Lleyton Hewitt is the last horse in the perpetually lost race for the Australian Open title.
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Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse â to behold an untrammeled frontier.
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MOLE CREEK, Australia -- For years, Trudy Richards searched the forests of Tasmania for the elusive creature with the head of a wolf, the pouch of a kangaroo, and the stripes of a tiger.
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Roald Amundsen reaches Australia with the news that his Norwegians have taken the South Pole. But Robert Falcon Scott does him one better by dying in the attempt, thereby becoming the legend. Compiled by Tony Long.
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A colorful and confounding head trip, âOpera Jawaâ is guaranteed to test the fortitude of all but the most adventurous viewer.