Maybe he wasn't just an armchair adventurer after all; maybe he had actually learned something from all those tales he had studied.

A premier site for armchair adventurers is Mountainzone (climb .

Down these jungle and swampland and savanna paths the armchair adventurer could now encounter them in all their cyber-animatronic glory.

Mr. Sides said "Ghost Soldiers" came in part from his experience as an editor and writer at Outside magazine, the bible of extreme sport enthusiasts and armchair adventurers.

"Everest" makes it possible for armchair adventurers to share the risks and glory of their climb toward heaven.

So while the film, written and produced by Liesl Clark, contains some breathtaking vistas, that ultimate view, although it has been filmed by other expeditions, remains just out of reach for tonight's armchair adventurers.

In an eerie twist, on real-time Internet broadcasts on sites like Quokka and MountainZone, armchair adventurers, privy to this impending Armageddon, as one forecaster called it, tuned in to watch the nautical horror show unfold.

For every thrill-seeking weekend warrior, countless more armchair adventurers are romanticizing risk-takers when their own lives have never been more risk-free.

INTRODUCTION There is a kind of story laid, not in the world as it is or was, but as - to an armchair adventurer - it ought to have been.

Meanwhile, here at his 400-acre compound on the Canadian border, two tons of equipment are being packed for the 120-day trip, including an assortment of high-tech communication gear that will allow the team satellite access to the Internet, and thus to classrooms, scientists and armchair adventurers around the globe.