"Adventure racing gives you a goal and a focus, and the opportunity to experience a very rugged part of the world – but under safe, controlled conditions," said Gaelforce organiser Ciara Young.
A surge of so-called insider attacks against United States troops continued on Monday, when an Afghan National Army soldier gunned down two Americans after a dispute broke out in Laghman Province, a restive and rugged part of eastern Afghanistan that no longer has much American presence, Afghan officials said.
The man said he wants to keep his wife and two children safe, and he offered a range of skills that could be of use to Cape Breton, a beautiful and rugged part of Atlantic Canada that has been grappling for years with an outward migration problem.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel last week anointed this as a national landmark, but the National Park Service has long restricted anyone from hiking to the wreckage that fell in a remote and rugged part of the canyon.
Because the Silverthrone region is in a remote and exceptionally rugged part of the Coast Mountains, danger from lava flows would be low to moderate.
SEATTLE, Oct. 8 — A private plane disappeared on Sunday with 10 people aboard, and rescue workers found the wreckage in a rugged, remote part of the central Cascade Range on Monday.
This rugged part of Chiapas State has been the eye of a human storm that has raged on much longer than the better-known struggle surrounding the Zapatista rebels who have been fighting Mexican authorities for six years.
While American-led forces have struggled in other isolated mountain valleys — abandoning the Korengal and Pech Valleys in the northeastern province of Kunar — the turnaround here in this rugged part of the country has been remarkable.
During the most rugged part of my afternoon, I sat in the mottled shade of one of the few roadside trees we encountered that day, my head bent over and held between my legs to recover from a bout of dizziness.
The show, now in its 25th year, is a creative homage to California's most loathed plant and its dreaded oil, urushiol, a daily nuisance in these rugged parts, where wood-chopping, hunting and brush-clearing are a way of life.
