Annals of Adventure–Beach Cat Bingo: Last February, Brazilian Roberto Pandiani and South African Duncan Ross sailed a 21-foot beach catamaran from near Cape Horn to the Antarctic Peninsula, a journey which is recounted by Ross here. It’s old news, but a worthwhile account with some cool pics. The little outing took the duo 82 hours, and involved crossing the 500-mile Drake Passage, one of the most brutal and unpredictable stretches of water on the planet. They were lucky with the weather–experiencing a maximum of 25-knot winds–but by the time they reached the Great White Continent they were hallucinating, thanks to the cold and physical exertion. “It was like scooting across the upturned belly of an sleeping monster,” Ross concluded. The next obvious stunt is to circumnavigate Antarctica….Duncan? Roberto?

“Dammit, Roberto, we’re hard aground. Don’t you think you’re taking this Shackleton obsession a bit far?”