"I was paid for sessions," said Ed Asner, a veteran actor who provided the voice for Carl Fredricksen, an aging adventurer in "Up," a best-picture nominees.
The wonderfully disparate pieces in Dries Van Noten's collection seemed as if they had been gathered from some tucked away wardrobe of an eccentric adventurer farther up some young aristocrat's family tree.
The Wilderness Adventurer motored up Gastineau Channel to Juneau early the next morning, and as the fresh crop of cruise ships came into view, we congratulated ourselves again on our choice.
For Oscar, a spontaneous, free spirited adventurer, cleaning up was secondary.. On the other side, Felix saw himself as a provider, role model and leader, fostering a home environment that was clean and pleasant.
Her task would have been easier in the US Senate in Washington, birthplace of the filibuster – a word derived from the Spanish filibustero, which American adventurers picked up in the mid-19th century.
A number of the adventurers holed up in Norway waiting for the repairs to the ice runway claim to be making their epic journeys in the name of conservation – saying they need to go now, before the Arctic is ice-free.
Instead, it tells of adventurers holed up above the snowline, searching for El Dorado, "with nothing to burn or talk about" in the cold as the weather closes in, searching desperately for a way to "get this dream of ours back to Earth".
As a new wave of adventurers gear up to repeat the epic journey, Don Walsh tells the BBC about their remarkable deep-sea feat.
"If he's serving a young man, he might say, 'Boychik what do you want?' " Mr. Sherpa, as his last name implies, belongs to the renowned tribe of mountain people known for helping adventurers up Mount Everest, and this is exactly what Mr. Sherpa did in his youth.
