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Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... but sometimes you win or lose in a truly scary way.

Playing Bach after dinner in a camp; we also tell stories.

Adventure is not just rafting or trekking; there are many activities - whether desired or not - that constitute adventure. Becoming an adventurer doesn't necessarily just encompass extreme sports or at least, those of the highest popularity among tourists. Explorers, military leaders, social workers, NGO volunteers, professional gamblers, mercenaries, treasure hunters, caravan merchants and field correspondents are also adventurers, in their own ways.

And sometimes these adventurers get what they want... or not, and sometimes they get what they have to get, whether they wanted to get it or not, in an unquestionable, irrevocable way, as if destiny were imposing something unto them. These are the greatest winners and losers of adventure's history, for adventure, as a part of history also has its own history as an activity that deserves to be told too.

Over time we have collected and prepared literally hundreds of short comments and stories related to these ueberwinners and ueberlosers among the fellowship of adventurers. These are the stories that we tell as we have dinner around a campfire, while we work in our labyrinth, or while taking a rest and having a cup of mate. We hope you enjoy reading them and learn what to do, but more importantly, what not to do:

Stories And Myths About Winners And Losers

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Sometimes, being too close can be as hazardous as being too far away, especially while you trek or climb a mountain.

Close, but not too close. Always keep some distance, especially if you are carrying long objects strapped to your backpack, like skiing boards, poles, etc.

If members of an expedition or excursion develop great distances between them for any reason, cross checking will become more difficult and mistakes will certainly begin to sprout more and more often until at some point, those events and the situation itself may become actually dangerous.

But being too close while trekking, skiing, using a piolet, crampons, weapons, ropes, skiing boards, or walking sticks may cause accidents too, if only because of the normal use of those tools. Furthermore: If you are walking or climbing and cause the fall of some debris, some little rocks, mud and so on, the person behind you may not have enough time to react and evade the trajectory of those projectiles, or may not see the things that are coming in your way in time to avoid them too. In the best of cases, if you see - say - rocks falling, you may be able to dodge them, but the person just behind you will not.

It is not easy to determine with precision how far away or how close people should be in these circumstances but we can speak of a range of safety that goes between the maximum visual range - meaning, the farthest distance at will you still see your companions - down to the length of your body or the things you carry, so that if you fall to the round you will not produce a domino effect.

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Yosemite is the flagship of America's National Parks. Escape to the mountains for two full days of hiking, sightseeing and exploring in this amazing natural wilderness.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Interior and the National Institutes of Health's We Can! program-a national education program to help children maintain a healthy weight-are encouraging children and families to get outside and play at a nearby national park or national wildlife refuge this weekend and beyond.

Father's Day (Sunday, June 15) is the perfect time to move for better health. Kids, take the father figure in your life outside to play. This weekend also includes National Get Outdoors Day on Saturday, June 14, and there are events all over the country to help get families out of the house and into the great outdoors. Playing actively together benefits the whole family.

Increasing physical activity is a primary goal of We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and Nutrition), a science-based national education program to help children ages 8-13 maintain a healthy weight. We Can! is a program of the National Institutes of Health, which is part of the U.S. Department Health and Human Services. The program provides tips and resources for parents, caregivers, and community organizations to help children and their families make better food choices, increase physical activity and reduce screen time. The program is now underway in more than 800 community sites in all 50 states and 10 countries.

This weekend marks the start of an exciting new partnership among We Can! and the Department of Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service. The government partners are joining 40 other national partners in support of We Can! National wildlife refuges and national parks also provide ideal settings for family activities such as a walk in the woods, bike riding, fishing, canoeing or a wildlife watching trip. In addition to the benefits of spending time together outside, families are also keeping physically active and promoting a healthy lifestyle.

"We're very pleased to partner with NIH and help make the nation's fisheries and wildlife refuges and national parks a welcome and exciting resource for youth, parents and caregivers to promote a love of nature and the great outdoors," said Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne. "With more than 181 million acres of public land in the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Park System, we can provide numerous opportunities for families. We need to get children and their families out of cyberspace and into open spaces. To put down their BlackBerries and go pick blackberries. To stop channel surfing and go wind surfing. To shut off the Web casts and cast a line for a trout."

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Pictorial examples that explain how to look for man-made signs left around trails and paths.

Trekking implies learning how to navigate; it means learning orienteering and developing a sense for details around and across your path thorough nature. So we have published a new photo gallery that explains in an easy to understand way what you should look for whenever you go into the wilderness.

To view these pictures, follow this link. If you want to find trekking manuals and publications, click here.