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Sawyer SP131 Water Filter
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Helly Hansen H2 Flow jacket
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Saucony Kinvara 3 running shoe
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British man survives three days in Australian outback thanks to contact lens solution
A British man staying at a remote Australian farm station has been found alive after getting lost for three days in […]![](https://www.wideworldmag.com/system/wp-content/themes/wideworld_desktop/assets/application/libraries/resizer/image.php?src=http://www.wideworldmag.com/resources/ROugh-guides-competition-round-world-wideworldmag-copy.jpg&q=90&zc=1&w=140&h=0)
Rough Guides offering £4000 round the world trip to one lucky blogger
Legendary travel publisher Rough Guides set an amazing challenge to win this globetrotting holiday prize for flights, hotel and a chance […]![](https://www.wideworldmag.com/system/wp-content/themes/wideworld_desktop/assets/application/libraries/resizer/image.php?src=http://www.wideworldmag.com/resources/GB-Row-Challenge_round_britain_rowing_race_wideworld.jpg&q=90&zc=1&w=140&h=0)
Competition offers £100,000 prize to row around the UK
The GB Row Challenge 2013 is offering a prize purse of £100,000 to the fastest team to row around the entire […]![© The North Face](https://www.wideworldmag.com/system/wp-content/themes/wideworld_desktop/assets/application/libraries/resizer/image.php?src=http://www.wideworldmag.com/resources/WideWorld-jez-bragg-north-face-New-Zealand03.jpg&q=90&zc=1&w=140&h=0)
British ultrarunner Jez Bragg to run length of New Zealand
Nearly 2000 miles of wild country in just 50 days: ultra trail runner Jez Bragg has announced his ambitious plan to […]![Renowned mountaineer and The North Face athlete Conrad Anker, who conquered the unbeaten Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, scales Union Chapel and camps there overnight, in a suspended tent, on the eve of The North Face Speaker Series in London, to recreate the incredible expedition](https://www.wideworldmag.com/system/wp-content/themes/wideworld_desktop/assets/application/libraries/resizer/image.php?src=http://www.wideworldmag.com/resources/WideWorld-Conrad-Anker-Union-Chapel-London.jpg&q=90&zc=1&w=140&h=0)
Mountaineer Conrad Anker climbs London landmark
Top US mountaineer Conrad Anker climbed the tower of London venue Union Chapel this week to mark his latest victorous climb […]![](https://www.wideworldmag.com/system/wp-content/themes/wideworld_desktop/assets/application/libraries/resizer/image.php?src=http://www.wideworldmag.com/resources/1330299_300.jpg&q=90&zc=1&w=140&h=0)