Yahoo Bangs Out Adventure

By Digital Trends Staff October 24, 2005

Online portal Yahoo today said they launched a new website geared towards those who like to read about real life adventures. The site is marqueed by expert adventurer Richard Bangs.

Called Richard Bangs Adventures, the site follows the exploits of Bangs and his fellow adventurers as they go on exciting journeys which are shared with readers through video, photography and personal accounts. The first series will follow American John Harlin III’s recent ascent of the Eiger, the same Swiss peak that claimed the life of Harlin’s father 40 years earlier.

Other adventures, which will be posted monthly, include a story about the Sea Gypsies of the Andaman and the 2004 tsunami they escaped and also a tale about the winners of a sweepstakes on the Richard Bangs Adventures site as they

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