A hiker was accidentally shot and killed by a bear hunter on Sauk Mountain in Washington State over the weekend. The hunter, who apparently mistook hiker Pamela Almli (not pictured) for a bear, is only 14 years old.
Being an avid hiker myself, this story particularly saddens (and scares) me. According to this article, Almli was stopped on the trail, putting something into her backpack, when the fatal round was fired.
If you haven’t seen this video on YouTube about the “hugging lion”, be sure to watch it below. It’s the story of Christian - a lion cub who was adopted at Harrod’s department store in London in the 1970’s (yes, they used to sell wild animals there), raised by two men, and released into the wild when he got too big for their apartment. I’ve seen this clip before, but it wasn’t until the Today Show featured it this week that I saw it again.
It’s been almost a year since legendary adventurer Steve Fossett went missing while flying over of a remote area of Nevada desert. He was never found and reports are now surfacing that the whole thing may have been an elaborate sham. Steve Fossett may have faked his own death.
Could he have? Certainly. He was an extraordinary adventurer, explorer, and survivalist. The plane he was flying, according to sources, could have been easily dismantled and hidden. He was also worth billions of dollars - surely enough to expedite his escape from the country and set him up nicely somewhere off the radar. But did he actually fake his own death? No one knows for sure, but some people think it’s possible - probable even. His plane hasn’t been found, his body hasn’t been found… nothing has been found.
It’s not every day I get an email from the Discovery Channel. It’s also not every day that they’re looking for a cast of adventurers to join a new adventure show. But today I did and today they are.
If you think you’ve got what it takes to survive and thrive in the Alaskan wilderness on an epic Discovery Channel expedition, this is your chance. The Alaskan Adventurer casting call is now open - you could be the next Alaskan Adventurer.
Click through to read casting details from Alaskan Adventurer Website:
This is good news for alternative energy - the U.S. is now the leading generator of wind power in the world. This distinction came early as predictions were that we wouldn’t lead the world in wind power until 2009.
According to the Green Blog, wind power production is growing faster here than anywhere abroad. There is tremendous potential for energy if we can harness and distribute the wind energy that flows freely across the plains (and deserts and mountains and coastal areas).
