International Year of Biodiversity is an opportunity for all the world to recognize the importance of biodiversity for all life on Earth, to reflect on our a achievements to safeguard biodiversity and focus on the urgency of our challenge for the future. Now is the time to act. This year’s theme was meaning full [...]
The small country of Bangladesh doesn’t have much of a reputation as a bike touring destination but Muntasir Mamun Imran would like to change that.
A Bangladeshi himself, he’s spent many weeks touring the country.
Bangladesh, he says, offers wonderful hospitality, beautiful scenery and quiet roads for cyclists. It is also an overcrowded country, [...]
By Ken Ford
Every year a group folks I know organize what they call the Hillary Ride. The ride pays tribute to Sir Edmond Hillary who died at the age of 88. So each year around this time they go out a cycle 88+ km. This year we cycled 150 km.
The trip started by meeting up [...]
Perhaps everyone around us know the name of Mt Everest, the highest mountain on earth, the majestic symbol of courage for mankind. The 29th May, 1953 is perhaps the most significant day for mountaineering with the conquest of the Everest. Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay successfully scaled the summit of the crown of all [...]
He was all alone , on the first step of a local shop. Mid night , dark sky with a hint of blue. Sleeping like a restored faith in him. Showing his berthing , movement of his 8 inch chest is quite loud. One hand underneath of his head and a mosquito coil just near [...]
It all started that evening, Imran bhai told us about our next adventure. The idea was to reach Kewkradong peak with our bicycles. Most people would think of you as a fool if you propose something like that as your next adventure plan. But in our case, we used to take these sorts of shocking [...]
Yes, mostly it was ardency for an adventure in our way. Not so hard but yet to accomplish many. And when it’s Bhutan it was combustions of energy with the sheer strength of mind. Moreover, Bhutan was the first nation to recognize our independence before any other state in the world. So for us our [...]
This video is about biking on mountain.
