300 Days “Shipwrecked” On A Deserted Island
Few years ago Tom Hanks starred in “Cast Away”, a film about a man that was shipwrecked in a deserted island, somewhere in the Pacific ocean. He stayed on that island for some years and lived exclusively on the food that he found on the island. Now Xavier Rosset, a French explorer and adventurer is planning of repeating a similar feat and stay for 300 days on a deserted island in the South Pacific near Tonga. He will take with him a Swiss army knife, a video camera and a solar panel to charge the camera. He will use the camera to record footage of his adventure and compose a 52 minute documentary of his experience.
Like Tom Hanks’ character, he will too live off the island’s natural resources.
See a video of Xavier below.
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64 Year Old Skydiver Will Dive From 40Km To Break Record
In a few hours 64 year old French skydiver Michel Fournier will attempt to break a world record. He will climb up to 40 kilometers, in a balloon, above Canada and will jump!
This jump will take place at an altitude about 4 times higher than commercial airplanes fly at.
North Battleford, in Saskatchewan, is all geared up to send the balloon with Fournier inside high up in the stratosphere.
He will be equipped with a special suit that will keep him at a constant pressure and enable him to withstand temperatures of -100 Celsius. During the descent he will be travelling at 1,500 km/h.
The records that he is aiming to break are:
1. Fastest free fall
2. Longest free fall
3. Highest jump
4. Highest altitude reached by a man in a balloon.
Good Luck Michael
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$5,000 For A Burger In Las Vegas
If you love burgers and have $5,000 to spare then you need to hurry up to the Mandalay Bay resort, Las Vegas. The French restaurant Fleur de Lys is now serving a burger which is called “Fleurburger 5000″ and is the brainchild of French chef Hubert Keller. It consists of Kobe Beef patty and its accompanied with rich truffle sauce, served on a brioche truffle bun. Along side you get a free drink, a bottle of ‘90 Chateau Petrus. But wait there are more freebies along with the burger. You also get a free burger for your company, an Ichendorf Brunello stemware glass (where the wine is served) and a certificate that says that you actually did spend $5,000 to eat this dish.
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Champagne Anyone? It Only Costs 50,000 Euros
It seems while that whole world is hungry and in debt, some people out there have just too much money and they are willing to spend it on anything.
Perrier-Jouet, a French champagne maker put up for sale a 12-bottle box set for … only 50,000 euros! This roughly translates to 4,166 euros per bottle.
The maker is planning to sell about 100 of these box sets and at the same time offer the chance to customise their own champagne. Anyone who purchases the box set will be able to go to Epernay to meet the cellar master and add the liqueur of their choice for a bespoke taste!
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BedUp - Pull It Down And Sleep
French company Decadrages offers a rather unique and impressive solution to all those that want to save some space. Bed Up is a bed that when ever we do not need it is on the ceiling and when we want to sleep we can simply pull it down. Price? Around 3,000 euro
2008 Dakar rally is CANCELED!
Few hours before the start of the famous Dakar (January 5th) rally across the Sahara Desert, the organizers, Amaury Sport Organization - ASO, canceled the event. This was done due to serious security concerns over possible terrorist attacks in Mauritania. The concerns came from the murder of 4 French tourists in Mauritania (where 8 stages of the 15 rally would take place) along with direct threats possibly from Al-Qaeda.
The 2008 Dakar rally was scheduled to be a 9000 km long race, for the 570 contestants, ending on the 20th of January after passing from 6 countries (Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Senegal)
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