Extreme Blogs: Windows Into Other Worlds

Posted on September 5, 2006

Continuing improvements in communication devices and the increase of satellites is making extreme blogging more common. An article in the Sydney Morning Herald talks about extreme blogging and some of the blogs taking place in extreme climates and situations both on Earth and in Space.

Thanks to the growing number of expeditioners who are using blogs to chronicle their adventures, now the bravery, hardship and extreme challenges are just a click away.
But first they must master the vagaries of blogging equipment in environments so treacherous that sometimes even breathing is difficult.

Some of the blogs mentioned in the article include diaries and blogs from space including NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit's Space Chronicles and US astronaut Ed Lu's diary. Australian physicist Dr. Jess Dempsey provided weekly reports from the Antarctic on her South Pole diaries. Paul and Fiona Adler blogged their Mount Everest Climb.

We have also mentioned some blogs from extreme climates here within the past few months. We recently mentioned an Antarctic conservation blog. Anthropologists are also using blogs to provide reports from remote locations like the chimpanzee blog in Kibale National Park, Uganda. And last but definitely not least there is the blogged search for a mythical dragon-like creature in Gambia. The blogs provide readers with a view of locations, climates and wildlife they may never be able to experience for themselves.