 Lured by the famous subtropical forests, white sand beaches, coastal lakes and estuaries, the Mountain Designs GeoQuest 48 hour Adventure Race will be hosted by Port Macquarie from 20-23 August 2010.In the annual pilgrimage of the sport, over 500 competitors, support crew, family and friends will travel to this premier adventure race of the year. The Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park will be the official Headquarters of the event. Not only is a great HQ for an adventure race, but it is also the perfect location to bring family and friends for a short holiday.For competitors, the Mountain Designs GeoQuest 2010 ... News - Latest | outeredge | Tuesday, 2 March 2010 READMORE
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 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Chris Baxter OAM, founder of Wild Publications and tireless promoter of Australia’s wild places.After a protracted battle with various forms of cancer over the last decade he finally succumbed to leukemia on Sunday 28 February. He is survived by his beloved wife Sue.Chris published the first issue of Rock in 1978 and the first Wild in 1981. Both were formed through Chris’ huge passion for the outdoors and the fact that they have gone on to be the longest running outdoor adventure magazines in Australia is testament to this ... News - Latest | outeredge | Monday, 1 March 2010 READMORE
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 Construction of Mt Buller’s mountain bike skills park, part of the third stage in the Resort’s cross-country mountain bike trail development, has been finished ahead of its planned completion, originally scheduled for summer 2011. The skills park, located in the Corn Hill area, is ready for riders to test and improve their ability on a variety of technical features.The Mt Buller and Mt Stirling Alpine Resort Management Board (ARMB) has been working with world-renowned trail designer Glen Jacobs and his team from World Trail over the past several years to develop the resort’s cross-country offering. Stages One and Two o... News - Latest | outeredge | Thursday, 25 February 2010 READMORE
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 The Otway Odyssey Mountain Bike Marathon lived up to expectations with the closest finish of its history in an exciting race that attracted one of the best line-ups in an Australian event. The sell-out field of star studded World Champs, Olympians and Aussie Title holders accompanied by excited weekend warriors grouped at Apollo Bay on the scenic Great Ocean Road as the sun rose to great fanfare provided by a 10 piece brass band. The race itself for competitors didn’t disappoint nor the competitors for spectators. Adrian Jackson from Melbourne was the surprise winner of the men after being seeded ... News - Latest | outeredge | Tuesday, 23 February 2010 READMORE
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 British team Helly Hansen-Prunesco became the first in history to retain the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race title on Monday morning when they crossed the finish line on the Beagle Channel after six-and-a-half days of exhausting non-stop racing through the spectacular wilderness of Chilean Patagonia.The four Britons, who at one point had to swim a fast-flowing ice-fed river to stay on track, won the world's 'toughest and wildest race' after a 600km course of trekking, kayaking and biking over the wind-swept pampas of Tierra del Fuego, peat bogs in Karukinka Reserve, snow-capped mountains and tree-filled canyons in the Cordillera Darwin and ... News - Latest | outeredge | Thursday, 18 February 2010 READMORE
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 The North Face athlete Ben Mates (pictured) received the news last week that he has officially made the 36-strong Australian Winter Olympic team to compete this February in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.Last weekend Ben competed in the FIS World Cup Halfpipe competition in Calgary, Canada and finished a credible seventh in a world-class field of forty-three. After the event Ben said: “I was really happy with my result. The final included some real medal contenders for Vancouver. I performed a similar run to the one I will perform in Vancouver with a front side 900, backside 540 i... News - Latest | outeredge | Thursday, 11 February 2010 READMORE
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 After being chased through Port Phillip Bay by a 5.5-metre shark in early January, kite boarder Natalie Clarke is taking on Bass Strait for a world record crossing between Tasmania and Victoria. Natalie has been training in the Bay with some of the less friendly local wildlife for months and has set herself this challenge to raise awareness and funds for a pool to teach swimming to special needs kids.Natalie Clarke will be attempting the world record 250+ km Kite Board crossing of Bass Strait from Tasmania to Victoria mid to late February.The one day crossing is scheduled to take ... News - Latest | outeredge | Sunday, 7 February 2010 READMORE
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 Pure Tasmania Wildside MTB, Tasmania’s muddy and bloody multiday mountain bike race, has been taken out by national fat tyre champ Daniel McConnell by a margin as slender as the Team Torque rider’s rascal rat’s tail. The Beijing Olympian (pictured, duking it out on the time trial stage with KOM rider Andrew Blair) nailed the iconic stage event in a total time of 06:04:51, holding off young Victorian Steele Von Hoff by just eight seconds over four days of intense riding from Cradle Mountain to Strahan. The race stages involved 140km of rough riding, with 60km of smooth cruising in ... News - Latest | outeredge | Friday, 5 February 2010 READMORE
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 Australia’s toughest trail-running event – the 100-mile (160km) Mind Alpine Challenge – has attracted some serious international talent. The spectacular race, which wends its way through Victoria’s spectacular Alpine National Park, turns three this year, and its reputation has put it on the radar of two of Asia’s most accomplished female adventure athletes. Jasmine Wong, who spends her days as Head Physiotherapist in the Singapore military, took up ultra running in 2005, knocking off a 250km run across the Atacama Desert in her first attempt at a big race in 2006 (raising money for a girl’s home in Singapore in ... News - Latest | outeredge | Friday, 5 February 2010 READMORE
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 JESSE MARTIN DOCO TO SCREEN ON ABCDon't come to the viewing of Jesse Martin's (he of the youngest ever solo round the world sailing record) latest doco with preconceptions. You'll be wrong. The Journey of Kijana on which this hour long effort is based was an adventure sailing expedition that aimed to produce a 13-part television series shot entirely by the crew to help fund the trip. We get an hour, instead of thirteen, of, as Jesse says in the beginning, adventure. And love. And of growing up - or not - which he leaves unsaid. This is a brave ... News - Latest | outeredge | Tuesday, 2 February 2010 READMORE
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 The Anaconda Adventure Race Series has crossed the Tasman with the launch of the inaugural New Zealand-based round of the series, to be held Saturday 24 April. The new event will take place at Waihi in the New Zealand North Island.A new event website has been launched to back the event www.AnacondaAdventureRace.co.nz The Anaconda Adventure Race (AAR) International Series has taken off in Australia, most recently the Augusta, WA, event becoming the world's biggest adventure race, courtesy of a packed entry list. Question is, will the Kiwi event follow suit? Often regarded as the home of adventure racing, New Zealanders ... News - Latest | outeredge | Friday, 29 January 2010 READMORE
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 At 1300hrs on the 18th January 2010, after 60 days and 1700km, professional Australian adventurer Mark Kalch completed a solo, on foot crossing of the Islamic Republic of Iran from its northern border on the Caspian Sea to its southerly border in the Persian Gulf. Beginning in the coastal city of Chalus, he crossed the Alborz Mountains heading south to the capital Tehran, before continuing south-west to Qom, Esfahan, through the Zagros Mountains, and onto the Persian Gulf at Bushehr.Mark passed through subtropical forest, 5000m+ mountains, high plateau and desert landscapes. The aim? To reveal a country much misunderstood and misrepresented in ... News - Latest | outeredge | Wednesday, 27 January 2010 READMORE
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 In a stunning coup for adventure racing in Australia, Tasmania and the long form XPD adventure race run by Geocentric Outdoors have won the rights to host the Adventure Racing World Championships in 2011.
Australia held out against solid representations from European events to secure the event, which is regarded as the pinnacle of the growing sport of adventure racing worldwide. The Adventure Racing World Series is an international circuit of premiere adventure races in 10 countries culminating every 12 months in the Adventure Racing World Championships.Geocentric race director, Craig Bycroft, noted the support of Tasmania and its reputation for wilderness ... News - Latest | outeredge | Wednesday, 27 January 2010 READMORE
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 The Australian leg of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will be bigger than ever come April-June with confirmation of three additional screenings and two new cities. The latest bookings include venues in Hobart, Newcastle and Townsville. "Over the past couple of years we have received a number of inquiries from adventure lovers in Newcastle and Townsville requesting a screening in their city, so this year it will happen," said Jemima Robinson, Marketing Manager for Paddy Pallin, the major presenter of the Festival. Hobart has hosted the festival previously, but has renewed its commitment a showing of the best ... News - Latest | outeredge | Thursday, 21 January 2010 READMORE
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 If you’ve entered Australia’s premier mountain biking marathon – the leg crunching, energy munching, century of dirt known as the Otway Odyssey – then this weekend you can get a real taste of exactly what you’ve signed up for.On Sunday 17 January, a course familiarisation session is being organised by Rapid Ascent’s head honchos, Sam Maffet and John Jacoby (remember those names – they’re the sadists that set the course – you’ll be calling them all sorts of other names in a few weeks time). The famil ride will start in front of the Forrest Community Hall in the main ... News - Latest | outeredge | Thursday, 14 January 2010 READMORE
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 One of Australia's biggest and best off-road riding races, Rapid Ascent's Otway Odyssey, has a new look this year, with the 50km Otway Shorty redesigned to give riders much more single track than in previous years. Don’t expect to get off lightly though.The nifty 50 will now start on the Yaugher road, before tackling a challenging 4WD track climb that’ll suck the thunder from your thighs before sending you down the legendary moto-giant-slalom single track to the base of the Sledgehammer. This year 50km riders will get your chance to test themselves up the mighty Sledgehammer – a short sharp ... News - Latest | outeredge | Thursday, 14 January 2010 READMORE
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 Outer Edge in association with Yukon Tourism has a peach of a prize package up for grabs that includes two return air fares to the Yukon Territory in Canada, two days guided mountain biking on some of the world’s best trails, two days padding on the one of North America’s mightiest rivers and a backpack full of cultural experiences thrown in to boot. But we want to ensure that this incredible prize goes to someone suitably adventurous, so first we’d like to know what you would do if you were presented with a full 24 hours of sun-drenched time to ... News - Latest | outeredge | Wednesday, 13 January 2010 READMORE
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The ever-popular Banff Film Festival World Tour 2010 edition, supported by Paddy Pallin and Outer Edge, hits Australian shores in May and June with 27 screening locations announced and the possibility of Hobart, Townsville and Newcastle being added to the roster. The tour features a collection of the most inspiring and thought-provoking active, environmental, and adventure mountain films chosen from approximately 300 films entered in the annual festival in Banff. This year’s selection of films include a great mix of paddling, mountain biking, hardcore skiing and rock climbing, all travelling through remote landscapes and cultures for an exhilarating and provocative ... News - Latest | outeredge | Wednesday, 6 January 2010 READMORE
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 In February, eight paddlers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, The United States and Uganda are headed to the iconic Australian Kimberley to attempt to complete the highest documented descent of the Fitzroy followed by the first ever descents of both The Wynne and Hardmen Creeks in whitewater kayaks.
This trip, dubbed Kayak the Kimberley will mark the forth year of expeditions to the Kimberley by the team, led by Aussie paddlers Lachie Carracher (pictured on the first descent of Bryan Joesph Falls, the biggest rapid run on the King Edward) and Anthony Yap. They will drive almost 4000 km northwest from ... News - Latest | outeredge | Wednesday, 6 January 2010 READMORE
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 Outlaw Paddling and Torquay Surf Life Saving Club will host the Victorian leg of the Australian Ocean Paddling Championship Series this Sunday 9 JanuaryRace 5 of the 2009/10 Outlaw Paddling Series is 25 km along the surf coast, finishing at Torquay SLSC and starting either at Urquart’s Bluff or Ocean Grove depending on the wind direction to ensure it is a down wind paddle. Race organiser, Jarad Kohlar, said there will be a very competitive field racing including World Ocean Racing Champion, Dawid Mocke, from South Africa and local Australian talent, multiple Molokai World Champion, Dean Gardiner. “The race will see ... News - Latest | outeredge | Wednesday, 6 January 2010 READMORE
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