From the inspiring to the tragic, this is GearJunkie’s wrap on exploration and adventure news of the week. Here’s what you missed and a few things to look forward to.
A Florida angler by the name of Scott Mutchler landed a 600-pound whopper of a marlin last week. Mutchler was fishing in his 13-foot Hobie Outback kayak off the coast of Panama when he snagged the beast.
“My first thought when he breached was just the sheer enormity of the size of the fish,” Mutchler told Field & Stream. “And the next thought was how incredibly beautiful and majestic they are. They’re gold, blue, black, and silver and they have these gigantic eyes and a really big bill. Seeing it up close and in person was breathtaking.”
Not only did the Jupiter, Fla., man harness the catch of a lifetime, but a fellow angler also managed to capture the battle on film. Check it out below.
Andrea Sanson of Golden, Colo., just set the women’s record and second 24-hour all-time record atop the grueling Manitou Incline. Over the course of a day, Sanson coursed up and down the incline 19 times — five more times than the laps accomplished by the previous women’s record holder, and barely second to that of the men’s 22-lap record set in 2014.
In full, “the sufferfest amounted to about 34 miles and 38,000-plus feet of straight-up elevation gain in one relentless push through daylight and darkness,” reported The Gazette.
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