Ryan Stuart, explore's gear editor

Ryan Stuart's tell all blog spot on his gear addiction and life and times as explore magazine's gear editor

Avalanche air bag backpacks

In the winter issue of Explore I wrote a short article about the availability of two types of avalanche airbag packs, ABS Avalanche Air bags and Snowpulse. Both are packs with a compressed air cylinder that can be triggered to deploy one or two air bags in an event of ...

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Bush beard and Movembermap_icon

Growing facial hair is part of camping. Be it one night or 20 stubble will appear and the man will be proud of it. If a women asks him to shave it, he will resist. He'll say its difficult to shave without a decent sized mirror. It's true, but it's ...

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Hi-ho, hi-ho it's off to the South Pole Ray goesmap_icon

A week to go before Ray Zahab, Kevin Vallely and Richard Webber fly to Antartica for their South Pole expedition. The two endurance athletes plan on setting a new record for fastest human powered trip. If the weather cooperates they leave on November 27th. Read more about the expedition in ...

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What's the rush?

Ray Zahab and Richard Webber are in Chile right now preparing for their unsupported South Pole expedition. The two endurance athletes plan on setting a new record for the 10,000 foot vertical, 1000 kilometre long trek. If the weather cooperates they leave on November 27th. You can read more about ...

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Ray Zahab runs to the South Polemap_icon

Ray Zahab is one crazy, cool guy. He works really hard to make his passion, running, help less fortunate people and support charities. He's crazy because he does some insane things - like run to the South Pole. That's what he's up to right now. He and fellow endurance athlete ...

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