ADVISORY/Nextel Sponsors Team in Upcoming World Championship Adventure Race.Business/Sports/Lifestyle Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (Aug. 30) NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) Nextel Communications Nextel Communications, styled NEXTEL, (Former NASDAQ: NXTL) which is now known as the Sprint Nextel Corporation was a telecommunications firm based in the United States. Known for providing a nation-wide mobile communications system. Inc. (Nasdaq:NXTL) announced it is sponsoring an elite team in the upcoming Discovery Channel World Championship Adventure Race. Covering 450 kilometers of mountainous moun·tain·ous adj. 1. Having many mountains. 2. Resembling a mountain in size; huge: mountainous waves. mountainous Adjective 1. terrain in six days of non-stop adventure, the Discovery Channel World Championship Adventure Race takes coed teams of four individuals through a variety of disciplines including mountain walking, glacier glacier, moving mass of ice that survives year to year, formed by the compacting of snow into névé and then into granular ice and set in motion outward and downward by the force of gravity and the stress of its accumulated mass. trekking, rafting, mountain biking mountain biking Sports medicine A sport in which participants use specialized bicycles to navigate rough, steep trails covered with unforgiving rocks Injury risk Concussions, fractures, death. See Extreme sport, Novelty seeking behavior. and abseiling Abseiling (from the German: abseilen, "to rope down") is the process of descending on a fixed rope. Names It is also known as: rappelling (American English), abbing (British slang for "abseiling"), jumping (Australian slang), (rope skills). This year's inaugural race takes place in Switzerland from September 3 to 8. You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?3825. This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download video, audio, text, graphics and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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