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Luat Tran Van's Articles in Recreation & Sports

  • Giving Another Flavour To Your Mate Tea
    Mate tea is an excellent beverage for any sort of outdoor adventure, and like traditional tea it can be flavoured in different ways to turn it more interesting.
  • Mate And Soup As Survival Food
    It is a little bit monotonous if you try to survive just on soup and mate for a month or so; you will indeed keep alive but it is boring just to have the same every day. However, the first advantage of using such an extreme but nutritious diet is that you will lose weight during expeditions but be perfectly able from a health point of view to eat more during the rest of the year
  • How To Carry Your Mate Into The Wilderness
    Anyone who has ever been in southern South America knows what mate is and that thre are many different types of items used to prepare and drink this beverage.
  • Survival Tips And Advice: Have A Way To Reload Batteries
    Among the great variety of things that we can take on our adventure trips or outdoor activities in general, battery chargers are among the most functional; today it is possible to purchase solar battery chargers of all sizes and for all purposes.
  • The Nanotyrannus Weapons Family
    The Nanotyrannus is a portable weapon, or more properly, a system designed by the Gea org. The Latin name for this design comes from a pygmy cousin of the Tyrannousaurus Rex, the biggest carnivore ever, which lived approximately 75 million years ago. Nanotyrannus means 'little ruler'.
  • How Many Everests Did Exist?
    All along the geological history of our planet, some mountain has been the highest one, but it wasn't always Mount Everest. Time has quite another value when the geological history of a planet is considered: our 70 to 80 years life - on average - are minuscule when compared with breathtaking time lapses spanning over aeons, and our pretty modest perspective on time scales leaves us with a very narrow comprehension of what really happens around us, in our world.
  • Navigating With Your Brains
    Oceanic or long-range navigation over the water always requires two things: suitable vessels and good means to establish positions and courses. Even in the middle of the most dire survival situation it is possible to navigate successfully, as many examples of shipwreck survivors stranded on boats and rafts prove: people have managed to survive thanks to good instruments or their navigational skills, or both.
  • Gun Ownership Is A Natural Right
    Stating that people should not have guns goes against human nature and turns those who accept that principle into cattle.
  • Trekking Advice: Your New Sleeping Bag
    As in the case of tents, a sleeping bag constitutes a significant investmet. Good sleeping bags are expensive, and considering that they may last for many years, it is convenient to think about the issue before purchasing one.
  • Tips from a Mountaineer: This is the Cost of the Lack of Prudency.
    On February 2000, I was in command of an expedition group with the task of establishing two blizzard shelters on the Motoco Valley, at 42 degrees south, at the border between Argentina and Chile. We also had to perfect one shelter already existing at Lake Las Brisas, and to map the unexplored valley with a GPS system.
  • The First Things To Be Done With An Airplane
    When I receive a plane to be flown, these are the two things that I do before anything else.

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