Urtzi Iglesias, español de 34 años, dejó por unos días su trabajo como profesor de educación infantil en California, Estados Unidos, para viajar a Ecuador a participar en el Mundial de Aventura, una carrera de fortaleza física y mental, orientación y convivencia que se inicia este 9 de noviembre. Se trata de su sexto mundial y hoy su equipo, Columbia Vidaraid Adventure Team, está ubicado como segundo en el planeta en el ranking mundial de aventura. El Mundial de Aventura come

I found team Columbia Vidaraid the the Bam-bu Hotel this morning. Like most hostals here it is built of Bamboo and must be one of the best places in town as the teams who finished early ended up there. (It’s not smelling so sweet now though - there is very muddy gear laid out all over the place!) I had a chat to Marco Anselem about the team’s performance here, their second place finish and their future plans. He talked me through their race first. “We stuck to our plan to be

Runner up of 2014 World Championship -Ecuador by Barbara Bomfim After the prize giving ceremony of the World Championship 2013 in Costa Rica our team received some beautiful bracelets from the organizer of the world championship to be held in Ecuador in the following year. We had placed second, being the first time among the top 3 in the world, and then decided to put on the bracelets as a commitment from the whole team to the next edition of the most important adventure race

Llega la tercera ronda de la Serie Mundial de Carreras de Aventura 2014. Tras las dos citas anteriores en Nueva Zelanda y Sudáfrica, con interesantes enfrentamientos entre algunos de los equipos punteros en este deporte, llega el turno para el actual subcampeón del mundo, el equipo vasco-brasileño Columbia Vidaraid. El escenario para esta tercera batalla será el estado de Maine., en la costa este de los Estados Unidos. Un lugar poco habitado, en el que abundan ríos, lagos y b

Clear blue skies and mild temperatures greeted teams Saturday morning as they waited at Harris Dam to begin the whitewater rafting section of The Untamed New England Adventure Race, presented by Plum Creek. By 10:30 AM nine teams had gathered at the dam for the highly anticipated water release on the Kennebec River. Teams set off in rafts, accompanied by professional rafting guides from Northern Outdoors, at five minute intervals. The Kennebec River provided an ideal setting

The Adventure Racing World Series made the first of two stops in North America when the Untamed New England Expedition Race took place in the Highlands of Maine last week. The race covered over 200 miles of rugged terrain including Moosehead Lake, the Appalachian Mountain Club's 100 Mile Wilderness, the historic town of Greenville, and the Kennebec and Dead Rivers. It was a challenge accepted by 39 teams from around the world, including Columbia Vidaraid who are third in the

El equipo Columbia Vidaraid ha conseguido el Subcampeonato del Mundo de Carreras de Aventura en el Campeonato del Mundo disputado la pasada semana en Costa Rica.El equipo compuesto por los españoles Jon Ander Arambalza y Urtzi Iglesias, y los brasileños Marco Amselem y Bárbara Bomfim han realizado una fenomenal carrera que les ha servido para adjudicarse el segundo puesto en la clasificación final por detrás de los suecos del Thule Adventure Team, nuevos Campeones del Mundo 2

Team Columbia Vidaraid was invited to join the RockyMan Adventure Challenge, the greatest multisport relay competition in Brazil. Twenty teams of different countries including USA, Argentina, New Zealand, France, Spain and Brazil got together in the beautiful Ipanema beach for a very tough competition. Teams of five people battled for the U$35,000 prize money distributed among the individual competitions of surfing, climbing, mountain biking, mountain running, stand-up paddli

Três vezes vencedora do Ecomotion Pro Barbara Bomfim conta os detalhes de jornada no sul da Bahia. A preparação para uma competição como o Ecomotion Pro - a mais importante corrida de aventura da América Latina, com duração de até seis dias, percurso de mais de 600 quilômetros e provas que incluem trekking, mountain bike, canoagem e natação - não pode ser feita em meses, mas em anos. Há dez anos competi na primeira versão da competição, na Chapada Diamantina. Não tinha nenhum

“Ele já ficou em cadeira de rodas porque perdeu as unhas dos pés. Isso é vida para a mãe, que o tira da barriga inteiro?”, indaga Yonne. O filho dela é campeão de corrida de aventura. A artista plástica Yonne Rossini conversou com a reportagem do iG com um sorriso largo no rosto, mas sem esconder a tensão. Apesar de estar no bar do hotel em um fim de noite, o computador permanecia sempre por perto e os ombros estavam rígidos. O motivo? Naquele momento, o filho Marco Amselem,