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BEYOND THE ORDINARY

EAGLE MASTERS DISRUPTING AN ANCIENT ART TACKLE LIFE IN MONGOLIA LIKE MIKE HORN TACKLES ANTARCTICA LUCHA LIBRE AN OUTSIDER ULTIMATE BREAKS INTO MEXICAN WRESTLING

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CONTRIBUTORS EDITORIAL

Alberto van Stokkum “Female characters feature a lot in my work,” says the Spanish photographer and filmmaker. “It’s what inspires me most.” It doesn’t come as a surprise, then, that he really enjoyed the Spring cleaning shoot with Swedish hip-hop enfant terrible Ängie. And obviously the fascination was Hello! This magazine feels a little different, doesn’t mutual, as Ängie agreed to pose outdoors in Stockholm on a freezing January morning it? The font on the cover? Brand new and designed wearing only a pink nightgown. PAGE 44 for us. (For you design nerds out there, it’s called “Bullit.”) This front section? Redesigned to highlight the stories from around the world that we feel most passionate about—short bits and anecdotes that truly represent our “beyond the ordinary” claim, with a look that’ll make you proud to leave us on your coffee table. And our back section is new, too, with more emphasis on gear, as well as the items

Chris Brinlee Jr. and ideas we think will most inspire you to get out In photographing the story on Mike and attack the outdoors (or the city night). Horn’s journey to Antarctica, Chris Brinlee Jr. got an assist from Mother Nature. And speaking of inspiration, it’s still the leitmotif “Once you hit 60 to 70 degrees latitude, the ‘golden hour’ would last eight hours because of our magazine brand. That focus remains no the sun stayed so low in the sky,” he says. The roiling seas were less accommodating to matter how we package it. Brinlee Jr., who spent most of the first day on the boat sick over a bucket. PAGE 30 We have some wonderful examples this month, including our cover subject—the explorer Mike Horn—and the eagle master Kairatkhan in the westernmost province of Mongolia (where we sent photographer Justin Bastien to spend a very cold Christmas).

We hope you enjoy the issue, The editors DEVENISH (COVER) SEBASTIAN

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FEATURES 30 Mike Horn Setting sail with the South African explorer as he embarks on the greatest journey of his life, Pole2Pole 44 Ängie The rude-girl rapper doesn’t play by pop-star rules 50 “Mad” Mike Whiddett South Africa’s Franschhoek Pass holds no fear for the Kiwi king of drifting. His mantra: focus, focus, focus 58 Drama Park Lane Behind the velvet rope of the London celebrity hangout 64 Eagle Masters 2.0 An entrepreneur travels to Mongolia to bring technology to the ancient tradition of hunting with eagles 76 Adam Bridle Born in South Africa, made in Mexico: how one man conquered the world of lucha libre—no mask required

ÄNGIE The Red Bulletin meets 44the provocative rap princess behind the most risqué song of 2016.

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12 Steering F1 into the future 14 Hollywood progeny Ireland Basinger-Baldwin cuts loose 16 How to sleep for success 18 Skills on demand? Actor Tom Payne has the technology 20 Leroy Bellet: The surf snapper who gets closer to the action 22 A bike fit for a McQueen 23 The humanitarian side of Hollywood star Sean Penn 24 LaFerrari Aperta: A rare beast 26 Street food, Michelin class 28 Room with a view-and-a-half 29 Top tips from a party pro GUIDE Get it. Do it. See it.

86 What’s on Red Bull TV this month 88 Watches for tough times 89 Our calendar of events you won’t want to miss 90 Active wear: Essential gear for those on the move 96 Global team 98 BMX goes off the wall

MIKE HORN 30When the extreme adventurer set off on his Antarctic quest, photographer Chris Brinlee Jr. joined him to document his perilous endeavor. 76 ADAM BRIDLE The South African studied wrestling around the world— and found his passion in the high-stakes style DIRK COLLINS, ALBERTO STOKKUM, VAN PAOLO MARCHESI of lucha libre.

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BULLEVARDThe Walking Dead star talks about his latest movie, MindGamers.

TOM PAYNE, JESUS AND THE DALAI LAMA: “I WOULD LOVE

CLEMENS STACHEL CLEMENS MORE PEOPLE TO FEEL EMPATHY“ JEREMY JACKSON PAGE 18

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NEUTRAL A useful button for when a driver arrives in the box for a pit stop.

DIFFERENTIAL Allows control over the differential that sends power to the rear wheels, regulating the speed of the wheel on one side in respect to the other side.

TEAM RADIO Puts the driver in radio contact with his team. For much of last season this was heavily restricted, but it came back with a bang in late 2016.

DISPLAY SCREEN This OLED information panel can display multiple pages of data on speed, lap time, difference to the leader, battery energy status, etc.

BRAKE BALANCE Using these dials, the driver can shift the brake bias to either the front or the back. With modern F1 cars, harvesting energy from braking phases, balancing between the right feel for the driver while still recovering enough energy for good lap times, is essential.

Hot wheel Controlling a Formula One car involves a bit more than merely pointing it in the right direction. With its myriad buttons, dials and switches, today’s F1 steering wheel is a tech-head’s dream. DRINK In extreme races (e.g., the heat of Singapore), drivers can lose up to 8 lbs in fluids. A 2 percent loss in body weight can impair cognition, so getting fluid on board is crucial. WELCOME TO FUEL MIX Need full-fat burn or fuel- saving leanness? You can set your preference—though the MISSION CONTROL maximum fuel load is 105 kg. 12 THE RED BULLETIN SOFTWARE OPTIONS These, on either side of the wheel, move the selection of the multifunctional rotary by increments of -10 (left button) and +1 (right button).

PIT LANE SPEED LIMITER Immediately drops the car to the speed required by F1’s strict pit-lane limits.

TORQUE ADJUSTMENT Allows the driver to control torque delivery from the engine.

All Change Formula One in 2017 will undergo its biggest set of regulation changes since the introduction of hybrid engines in 2014. This time, though, the emphasis has been shifted to chassis and aerodynamics. The bigger, more aggressive cars will be fitted with fatter tires, which will increase grip and provide extra downforce. The front wing is also wider and more sharply raked to help drivers follow rivals. The rear wing is lower, while a larger diffuser will significantly increase downforce at the rear. It all means they’ll be faster, with lap times set to fall by 3 to 5 seconds. It also means they’ll be a lot more physical to drive, as the recent spate of Instagram pics of drivers working at muscle-busting training regimes attest. redbullracing.com

FAIL Puts all the car’s MULTIFUNCTIONAL systems into fail-safe mode. ROTARY Ask an F1 engineer what’s controlled TIRES The different tire ERS ACTIVATION by such multifunctional types in use (dry, wet, etc.) The modern F1 car has a CLUTCH One of 2016’s switches and the silence have varying characteristics. suite of energy recovery big changes was that drivers is deafening. This mystery This switch is used to set systems—this deploys them. must control starts with device controls a host of JUSTIN HYNESJUSTIN the car up accordingly. a single clutch-pull paddle software changes that rather than using complex influence car behavior. No ENGINE MODES software. This led to more one, however, will reveal just CLUTCH SETTINGS Allows the drivers to engage unpredictable starts and what those influences are. If it’s not engaging properly, a particular set of engine more position changes. But the driver can adjust the performance parameters for there are still two paddles clutch with this switch. different circumstances. here for turning left or right. RED BULL RACING

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California girl hen you’re Long in the shadow of the breakup of the daughter her film-star parents, the model-turned- Wof a blonde bombshell and a actress is ready to forge her own path. blue-eyed charmer, you’re likely to inherit a few of their stunning attributes. For Ireland Basinger-Baldwin, whose parents are Oscar- winning actress Kim Basinger and razor-tongued actor IRELAND Alec Baldwin, her genetic traits are enviable: She’s a staggering 6 feet 2 inches tall, with aquamarine eyes and the curves of a Bond girl. But the 21-year-old Ireland BASINGER- is also the product of her parents’ rocky divorce and a bitter battle for her custody, which left her with a fractured sense of identity. BALDWIN After checking herself into rehab in 2015 for “emotional trauma,” Ireland emerged from the darkness with a stronger outlook on life and a BREAKS OUT closer relationship with her family. With a healthier head and heart, she immersed herself in her modeling career and embraced a new sense of self-confidence thanks to the encouragement of those around her. “I never looked in the mirror and thought, ‘You’re so hot,’” she said afterward. “It took a lot of other people to believe in me before I could believe in myself.” And if her Instagram feed is any indication, her admirers clearly believe in what they see: a beautiful, poised young woman unafraid to enjoy life— and have a little fun. Follow her @humancrouton

Photo: DOUG INGLISH

On her left arm, Basinger-Baldwin has a tattoo of one of her idols: David Bowie.

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The perfect drink before that nap— an espresso.

Turn over For the sleep coach, there is only one proper position to sleep in and that’s on the side opposite the hand you write with. “The reason goes back to our primeval instincts. I’m right-handed, so if I sleep on my left side, I’m better able to protect myself in case of a surprise attack.” The position Nick Littlehales signals to your brain that trains soccer pros and other you’re safe and helps you elite athletes how to sleep right. enter the sleep phase. Here are three simple tips for the Don’t sleep perfect recovery. What should you do if you’re an athlete and can’t sleep the night before a big event? Drink coffee Littlehales’ tip is surprising: Napping has a bad reputation, Don’t sleep. Don’t put pressure one that’s undeserved, says on yourself. Meditate. He also SLEEP LIKE Littlehales. Before the light tells his athletes to watch bulb was invented, people footage of their great would sleep a shorter period achievements, anything that at night, but also around noon relaxes them, because you can CRISTIANO or early evening. Hence he regenerate even when semi- suggests controlled recovery conscious and still produce

periods between 1 and 3 p.m. your best. But, he stresses, SPERL ROBERT and again between 5 and 7 it’s important to catch up on RONALDO p.m. Tip: Drink an espresso any missed sleep as soon as before you nap. Its effect only you can. kicks in after 20 minutes and Find more tips in Littlehales’

it’ll give you an energy boost new book, Sleep (Penguin Life); GETTY IMAGES when you wake up. sportsleepcoach.com

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Payne’s MindGamers headband will enable him to gauge the moods and emotions of the audience at premieres in New York and Los Angeles on March 28.

If an online marketplace for skills did exist, what would you be able to offer for others to download? I consider myself a person with a lot of empathy. Sometimes I’m amazed when people don’t have that and they can’t put themselves in someone else’s shoes and understand where that person is coming from. So I would love more people to feel empathy in the way I do. Yeah, that’s something I would probably upload. Who did you identify with when you were getting started as an actor? I didn’t have any heroes in the traditional sense. Actually, the first person I really had a reaction to was the Dalai Lama. When I was 19, I visited Australia on a trip, and I went to see him. The energy he exudes is really cool. But don’t you have to be a bit selfish as an actor? Yes, you do! On The Walking Dead, you have to look after yourself to a certain extent, and understand where the camera is at a certain time; that’s a skill in itself. It’s like Cloud messiah that because the show has The red bulletin: such a big cast. It can mean He breathed new life into The Walking Dead, MindGamers is about a that I intentionally move playing Jesus. Now, in the movie MindGamers, computer that can transfer into the frame or into the actor Tom Payne is dealing in human abilities abilities from one human focus of a scene. to another. Would you want In The Walking Dead you we can access like software. to use one in real life? play Jesus, a character tom payne: Yeah, I would for whom solidarity and love to be able to paint and compassion are important. draw, so I’d love to download Which of the other STACHEL CLEMENS that. I’m constantly amazed at characters in the show DOWNLOAD A how talented some people are, could also do with a hug and how they can interpret every now and again? reality or just make something Daryl, definitely. Daryl

up. I’m so envious of people urgently needs a big hug. JEREMY JACKSON NEW TALENT who can paint and draw. mindgamersmovie.com 18 THE RED BULLETIN WE HAVE A PODCWAWES HETA HVAE AV PEO ADC PAOSTDCAST

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nyone hoping to Ashowcase the savage beauty of surfing needs to get as close to the professionals as they can, while they’re on CAN YOU the waves,” says Australian photographer Leroy Bellet. But then he would say that: This 18-year-old snapper has a particularly risky method of SPOT THE capturing top surfers in action. Instead of swimming into the water and waiting for the surfers, as many of his counterparts do, Bellet has a Jet Ski launch him into the HERO IN THIS same wave so that he can chase down his targets on his own board, Nikon D810 at the * ready. “I’m surfing while I’m composing the picture,” he PICTURE? explains. “So there’s a high risk the shot will go wrong.” It took Bellet four months to get this shot of surfer Scott Dennis, photographed off the coast of New South Wales. “I kept coming off the board,” he reveals. “I wrecked two of them, and I ended up in hospital three times.” So why does he keep at it? “Surfing beats getting stuck doing paperwork. I’m not a fan of office jobs.” leroybelletphoto.com

*It’s the man behind the camera: fearless 18-year-old wave rider Leroy Bellet (above).

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The desert racer The movie legend and motorsports fanatic called the custom Metisse Mk3 “the best handling bike I’ve ever owned.” Steve McQueen He should know—he built it. rarely needed his stunt double. But Bud Ekins was good for two things—pulling off the famous motorcycle fence jump in 1963’s The THIS STEVE Great Escape, and introducing the star to the Mk3, the first dedicated motocross bike, which McQueen customized for the Baja 1000 desert race. MCQUEEN BIKE Half a century later, Gerry Lisi, Metisse’s current owner, got a call. A one-off replica of Lisi has the frame number the McQueen Desert Racer of the original. “If anyone ISTHE REBIRTH he’d built for a London shop has that, it’s worth a lot.” window was generating buzz. “Three times a day, someone Lisi to build a limited run of wants to buy this bike,” said 300—authenticating the OFCOOL the shop manager. It spurred machine from family footage supplied by McQueen’s son, Chad, and endorsed with the King of Cool’s signature. So far 100 have been sold, including to an oil tycoon and former Secretary General of FIFA, Jérôme Valcke. metisse-motorcycles.com TOM GUISE METISSE The frames are built from scratch and fitted with reconditioned Triumph 6T engines.

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Don’t just stand there, do something: Penn lends some muscle to relief efforts in Haiti.

The red bulletin: You’re well known for your humanitarian activities, Sean Penn and last year you made a The actor and filmmaker tells film, The Last Face, about aid workers. Are you trying us where relief operations, jazz to save the world? happy to play second fiddle and the wisdom of legendary sean penn: If there ever in instances like these? Hollywood gunslingers overlap. was a moment in time when I’ve worked in the past with I thought I could do that, Clint Eastwood, who is also a I’m now old enough not to jazz man. With jazz, you have be able to remember it. four or five people jamming But you’ve done an onstage, creating something enormous amount of relief magical. But if one of them GETTING work in regions that have says, “I can do that better been struck by catastrophe, than you,” then he screws it such as Haiti, southern up for everyone else because Pakistan and New Orleans. you can’t make any more joint HIS HANDS What kind of qualities do discoveries that way. You’ve you need to get involved got to be a team player. in that sort of thing? What’s the biggest obstacle? I just think of myself as People aren’t as keen to show DIRTY a facilitator, meaning I look their love now as they might for proactive people who have been in the past. We have

RÜDIGER STURM RÜDIGER have the talent required a generation where everyone to do something for their wants to make their own mark fellow human beings. rather than just live. The only And even though you’re solution to this is compromise. a Hollywood star, you’re Just saying “me, me, me” all

GETTY IMAGES the time doesn’t work. jphro.org

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LaFerrari Aperta Only the super-rich can get their hands on this supercar, right? Nope, not if you know the right people . . . TREASURE HUNTING

ore than just a fighter jet Mfor the road, Ferrari’s LaFerrari Aperta was built to celebrate the marque’s 70th birthday, making it a 220-mph, 950-hp instant museum piece. Price of entry: $1.7 million. Chances of getting your hands on one: nil. Before the roof-off version had even made its debut in September last year, all 200 had been sold, to an ultra-exclusive band of collectors. Unless you got an invitation, ownership is out of the question—no matter how rich or famous you are. Unless . . . Enter Tom Hartley Jr. The 33-year-old Englishman has his showroom in rural Aperta has come on the “It’s already worth three Derbyshire in the U.K. but market. Ferrari makes times what it cost off the trades in supercars across buyers [of these cars] sign a production line—$7.4 the globe. Having left school document stating that if million.” at 11 to join his father you sell it within 18 months For $7.4 million, Hartley selling sports cars, he’s you won’t get another— Jr. can help stick an Aperta sold more supercars than you’ll be blacklisted. I don’t in your driveway, but only in probably anyone on the expect to find an Aperta for 2018. Want it sooner? You’d planet. Biggest sale to date: sale before 2018. When I do, better hope an owner either a 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa I hope to be the first broker dies or has a bust-up with at nearly $41.3 million. to trade one.” Ferrari, or that one of the “There are consequences And he won’t be short of lucky 200 decides they hate HAY-NICHOLLS ADAM to selling your car early to takers. Two clients are each the car. take advantage of the offering $6.3 million. That last option seems

massive premiums on “No one will sell it for somewhat unlikely. FERRARI offer,” he says. “Not a single that,” Tom says with a grin. auto.ferrari.com

24 Black beauty: The LaFerrari Aperta goes from 0 to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds. BULLEVARD

Street food For 35 years Chan Hong Meng ran a popular but unheralded food stall in hinatown, CSingapore. There are dozens Two dishes are served: Singapore. Then he got a call from the of people cooking up a storm Cantonese chicken in soy world’s most famous restaurant guide. on every corner here. It’s a sauce and crispy barbecued culinary voyage of the senses: pork. The simple ingenuity Malay, Chinese, Tamil. It’s Chan brings to the first won what every guidebook tells over testers from the Michelin you about the vibrancy of the guide. In 2016, they awarded A MICHELIN city state’s street-food scene, him a coveted star. At the and a plate of food here will awards ceremony, Chan, who set you back about two initially thought the call from Singapore dollars ($1.40). the guide was a prank, stood In the midst of the on stage next to fêted French STAR TO GO panoply, though, one stall chef Joël Robuchon, who was stands out, its difference picking up a third star for his marked by the line snaking nearby Resorts World Sentosa its way past neighboring outlet, where dinner starts at stalls. The line leads to the 500 Singapore dollars. inconspicuous shop front So has the fame changed of Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chan? Not one bit. He’s still Chicken Rice & Noodle, in the kitchen 17 hours a where the owner, Chan day with his two assistants, Hong Meng, has been in cooking 180 chickens (30 place for 35 years and cooks more than before the award). Chinese style, in honor of The lines may be longer but the man who taught him Chan Hong Meng is still how to work a kitchen. serene in his apron, working wonders with his knife at the stall in a corner of Singapore’s biggest food court. ROBERT SPERL ROBERT

Chan Hong Meng in his stall, serving Michelin-starred chicken and pork. ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/PICTUREDESK.COM ROSLAN

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Edgy architecture You’ll need both a head for heights and an extreme sense of entertainment to enjoy the Kanin Winter Cabin in Slovenia. hree agonizing Tattempts were what it took the Slovenian army to lower this extraordinary shelter by helicopter and fix it in place HOW’S THIS at an altitude of more than 8,200 feet on Mount Kanin. The weather at this exposed spot on the Italian border can FOR A REAL be extreme, with hurricane- strength winds and torrential rainfall, and some winters bring 30 feet of snow. So why CLIFFHANGER? would anyone want to place a hut here? First, because people love a challenge, and second, the 360° view from the surrounding mountains to the Adriatic when the sun shines is simply jaw-dropping.

The wood-and-aluminum hut, designed by Ljubljana- based architecture firm Ofis Arhitekti, is just under 8 feet wide, 4.9 feet long and accessible only by scaling the mountain on foot, or by helicopter. It can, however, sleep as many as nine people, so that party with a real edge is firmly within reach. For more info, visit bovec.si DANIEL KUDERNATSCH DANIEL

At Kanin Winter Cabin, you’ll sleep above a precipice in the mountains of Slovenia. MARTINCIC JANEZ

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Professional showgirl: Kaite Estaba performs for DJ Skrillex and at NYC’s biggest clubs.

1. Be a detective “So you want to get on the guest list at your favorite club? Find out the name of Club code the party promoter and write them a polite, amusing Kaite Estaba is a New York email. You’d be surprised 4. Sound it out nightlife top cat with her go-go how often it works.” “You can tell a good club by crew Team Kitty Koalition. Here the quality of its sound system. 2. Get there early If you can still talk to your are her tips for a great night out. “The rule of thumb is that the friends even though the DJ ANDREAS ROTTENSCHLAGER action only really gets started is playing at regular volume, halfway through a club night. you know the sound system The main DJs play between is top quality. If your head midnight and 4 a.m., but if hurts, then it probably isn’t.” HOW TO FIND you’re in the club before then, you can discover some new 5. Think analog and exciting acts.” “Technology, gadgets and apps are having an effect on 3. Drink with style party culture, too; there are THE PERFECT “Barkeepers and promoters plans afoot for holographic go- know where the best after- go dancers and virtual-reality parties are. But if you’re so parties. My tip is: Leave your drunk that you can no longer phone in your pocket. Look NIGHT OUT speak, the chances are you people in the eye, and have won’t be invited.” fun in the here and now.” For more on Kaite’s club

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THE RED BULLETIN 29 LAST OF HIS KIND Explorer MIKE HORN’s voyages to the planet’s most extreme regions have inspired many, among them a young photographer and budding adventurer who sailed to Antarctica with Horn to understand how overcoming the impossible requires nothing more than taking the first step.

Words: Andreas Tzortzis Photography: Chris Brinlee Jr.

30 Born in South Africa, Horn moved to Switzerland in his mid-20s and decided to pursue a life of adventure. Twenty-five years later, he hasn’t stopped. Brinlee Jr. hadn’t yet met Horn. Horn, courtesy of a local tourism Two years ago, Chris Brinlee In fact, he hadn’t even heard of board. Six months later he flew to Jr. was sitting at a desk job him. All he knew was that the day Cape Town, South Africa, to meet job wasn’t going to cut it anymore. up with Horn for a portion of the at an advertising agency in So he sold all his things, moved explorer’s ambitious Pole2Pole Santa Monica dreaming of out of his loft in downtown L.A. expedition—his bid to circle the and took off to go backpacking in planet vertically over the course of a another life—a life like Mike northern Europe, and then single year. During this three-week climbing in the Himalayas, and voyage, Horn would attempt to Horn’s, in fact. The South then on mountaineering trips become the first man to cross African had built a career throughout the country. Pretty Antarctica completely solo and soon he was making a living on the without assistance. out of adventure, a modern- road with little more than a camera day explorer who did things and a savvy Instagram strategy. “Pole2Pole is simply everything “I think a lot of people— I’ve done in my life as an explorer like swim the Amazon and especially millennials, my in one expedition,” says Horn. “To generation—feel trapped and rewrite history in polar exploration circumnavigate the Arctic under this pressure and they have was maybe the main idea. I always Circle by foot and sail. ideas of things they want to do but wanted to cross Antarctica without not necessarily the courage and support and solo. And to combine know-how to go out and get them,” only that small part of the he says. “Even taking little steps, expedition in a massive expedition anything that pushes you out of where you’re not just crossing your comfort zone, can give you Antarctica but crossing the North the courage to do more.” Pole, crossing deserts in Namibia, Those little steps eventually in Botswana ... If I look into a led Brinlee Jr. to an ice-climbing mirror, I would like to see what I’m expedition in Alberta, Canada, with doing now. That’s important in life.

All of Horn’s expeditions keep sustainability and conservation in mind. On his trip to Antarctica he planned to collect ice samples for researchers. His Pangaea sailboat featured an all-star international crew, including Jacek Proniewicz of Poland (inset), the engineer responsible for keeping it all running.

32 When you really feel that you’re doing something that you want to see, it makes it natural. And when it’s natural, it becomes easy to do and the obstacles just fall away.” Growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa, Horn spent his youth outdoors, eventually joining the military before going to university to study sports science. Bored with what was shaping up to be a conventional life, he decamped to Switzerland at 24, where he learned to ski and paraglide and committed to a life of adventure. The list of his accomplishments since is jaw-dropping. It includes navigating the length of the 4,300- mile Amazon River in 1997 with nothing more than a fiberglass flotation called a hydrospeed, as well as that first-ever 12,500-mile solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle (2002-04), sans motorized transport and dragging a 400 lb sled with food and supplies behind. “POLE2POLE IS SIMPLY EVERYTHING I’VE DONE He also trekked from Siberia to the North Pole, along with Norwegian IN MY LIFE AS AN EXPLORER IN ONE EXPEDITION.” “THERE’S A CHANCE OF FAILURE, AND THAT EXCITES ME. IT’S THAT UNKNOWN

explorer Børge Ousland, using financing of your plan becomes you do,” says Horn. “I don’t always nothing more than skis in the easier. Mercedes-Benz has been a think the easiest road is the best darkness of the Arctic winter— big supporter of Horn, as has the road for me. I think that through another first, completed in 2006. watch company Panerai. The overcoming obstacles you gather He is a living, breathing financing culminated in Horn’s knowledge, and through this motivational speech, possessed of most ambitious venture: Pangaea, knowledge that you gather, you a bounding energy and death-grip a 115-foot, ice-floe-proof sailing have the power of decision.” handshake that makes younger men boat that he likes to refer to as the They spent the next three weeks wilt. He’s a survivalist who can draw SUV of the oceans. To build it, he sailing through the Roaring 40s, on a deep well of experience in the employed around 200 tradesmen the Furious 50s and the Screaming most extreme conditions—like the in a São Paulo slum, a method 60s (referring to the degrees of time he barked like a dog in his tent that was not only cost-effective latitude). Every marker more than in the middle of the North Pole to but entirely gratifying to a man earned its name, with squalls and discourage a curious polar bear. who wants others to share in his 20-foot swells buffeting the boat. Most revealing, however, is passion of the pioneering. Brinlee Jr., who had never been on what his expeditions have taught Which brings us to Cape Town a sailboat before, spent the first him about the impossible. Namely, on November 19th, where Brinlee day or so puking into a bucket. that it might not exist—at least not Jr. joined Horn and a crew of 10 Crucial parts like hydraulic pistons in the context of exploration. others to document part of the and rudders failed, requiring repair “My philosophy in life is that Pole2Pole trek. One of the burning and maintenance. They eventually once I have an idea, I plan it,” he questions Brinlee Jr. had: Why hit ice—a lot earlier than planned. says. “And once I’ve done the not just fly over there? “We would come up to the ice planning of the expedition I go out “I wanted to get to the Antarctic floes and the boat would smash and do it. And once you go out and like [Ernest] Shackleton did, like do it, that creates the momentum [Robert Falcon] Scott, and like and that inspires people. You can [Roald] Amundsen. That makes The passage between Cape Town and Erskine Bay featured just start planning something and expeditions risky. But not just risky swells up to 33 feet and winds up to 60 mph. The conditions then you can start doing it.” because you can’t get to where you took their toll on the boat, which battled maintenance problems Once people are inspired, the want to go, but because other throughout, like the hole punched through the hull (right) by the sponsors come on board, and the people’s lives are involved in what retractable rudder as it got jostled around while icebreaking.

34 THE RED BULLETIN THAT WE’RE AFRAID OF. AND IT’S THE UNKNOWN WHICH MOTIVATES ME.”

THE RED BULLETIN 35 In the engine room of the Pangaea, Felix Hsu keeps a close eye on the two 550 hp Mercedes BlueTec engines powering the boat through ice floes. Maintenance is part of every boat journey, but especially so when you’re breaking through ice.

36 “WE’RE GOING OUT THERE TO FIND A SOLUTION. WE’RE NOT GOING TO WAIT FOR IT.” At 115 feet high, the mast of the Pangaea offers the best perspective for navigating through tricky ice fields. “ONCE I HAVE AN IDEA, I GO OUT AND DO IT. AND THAT CREATES THE MOMENTUM AND INSPIRES PEOPLE.”

into them and would just vibrate through the whole ship,” says Brinlee Jr. “I had the foremost cabin and the bow would raise up to 10 feet and would shake as we were in there trying to sleep.” About a week into their passage and some miles off the Antarctic continent, Horn and the crew began the slow process of navigating the heaving, cacophonous floes that squeezed and rolled around the boat. They’d use a pike to shove ice off of vital systems, like the rudder. It got Horn thinking. “You often wonder, ‘What am I doing here? Why don’t I just wait?’ You can’t just wait your whole life,” he says. “That’s why we can do what we want to do—because we’re going out there to find the solution. We’re not waiting for the solution to come to us.” His travels in the Arctic have Proniewicz scouts a path through the ice in the dinghy (top). There were issues with both brought him firsthand exposure to the rudder—the hydraulic arms of which were damaged during icebreaking (above)—and the warming of our planet, from a the hole in the hull caused by the rudder. Repairs cost the crew half a day. battle that erupted when a grizzly bear encroached on polar bear territory—possibly driven there by warming temperatures—to chunks

of glacier ice breaking off in the North Pole. Among his goals in Antarctica will be to collect water and ice samples for researchers. Before setting off for the South Pole he even spent some time tagging sharks. “In 25 years of exploring I’ve seen a lot of change,” says Horn, the father of two daughters who serve as part of his expedition support team from their home in Switzerland. “And that’s a short amount of time. That’s why it’s important to do plankton tests, to take water samples while we go around the world to places where a lot of people can’t go.” After 21 days, the Pangaea reached the continental shelf and a euphoric crew began the preparations to send Horn on his way. He experimented with the

THE RED BULLETIN 39 “I WANTED TO GET TO ANTARCTICA THE WAY SHACKLETON DID . . . THAT MAKES EXPEDITIONS RISKY.“ Horn’s predecessors in his polar journey also serve as his role models. Famous explorer Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to cross the Antarctic from sea to sea in 1914 failed when his ship was caught and destroyed in ice. The British explorer led a heroic rescue of all 28 men who were aboard.

40 The 115-foot boat's hull is constructed of aluminum, which is less susceptible to tearing than a steel-hulled ship. Horn uses the weight of the hull to press down and break through the ice. “I DON’T ALWAYS THINK THE EASIEST ROAD IS THE BEST ROAD.” Horn at the very beginning of his 3,100-mile journey across the Antarctic, powered by skis and a kite. He took enough provisions with him to last three months. kite that would drag him and his sled across the glacier, along with FROM POLE2POLE enough food and fuel for three The South African and Swiss adventurer will take approximately 1. MONACO, months; Brinlee Jr. and crew helped two years to travel—by land and by sea—approximately 24,000 FRANCE him pick out the grub by doing a miles from the South Pole to Greenland, across six continents. MAY 8, 2016 taste-test night. By the time you The purpose of the journey is both educational and Horn leaves Monaco read this, he’ll have completed his environmental—highlighting the issues facing our changing aboard his sailboat, solo, kite-powered crossing of the planet and collecting samples for researchers at some of his the Pangaea, headed harder-to-reach destinations. toward Namibia. Antarctic—more than 3,100 miles. And he’ll have been the only person 2. NAMIBIA to ever accomplish that feat. Then it’ll be off to Greenland 3. BOTSWANA JUNE 2016 1 - JULY 15, 2016 via a route that takes him through JULY 15 Arrives in Walvis Bay New Zealand, India, Indonesia and - AUGUST 15, before making his way Kamchatka on Russia’s far east 2016 across one of the coast. All the way, he’ll be guided Walks across the world’s oldest by a drive that recalls another age, Okavango swamps, deserts—the Namib— on a constant hunt for on foot. one of wild curiosity fueling food and fresh water, enormous risk-taking. as he navigates a 2 3 “There’s a chance of failure ... long-forgotten route. that’s what excites me,” he says. 4 “It’s that unknown that we’re all 4. CAPE TOWN, afraid of. And it’s the unknown SOUTH AFRICA which motivates me.” AUGUST 15 - NOVEMBER 2016 Before he set off on skis, Horn While preparing 5. ANTARCTICA told Brinlee Jr. about an ice cap Pangaea for Southern in Patagonia, and another in Ocean passage, Horn 5 DECEMBER 2016 spends some time on - FEBRUARY 2017 Greenland, that could provide the a shark-tagging Solo crossing of the photographer a good starting point mission. Antarctic continent to train for something similar. The via the South Pole by 28-year-old took notes. “I put myself ski—following a route pioneered by the in his shoes,” he says, “and it 6 explorer Amundsen, galvanized what I want to achieve, and racing to finish and the type of experiences I want before winter sets in. to keep pushing myself to do.” In the coming months, he 6. NEW ZEALAND plans to traverse, via ski, Denali MARCH - MAY National Park in Alaska, before 2017 climbing Mt. Denali—the highest 7. AUSTRALIA Exploring the peak in North America at 20,310 Fjordlands, the feet—in the spring. But he also MAY - JUNE 2017 southernmost fjords Plans another shark- in the world. plans to slow down a life of travel tagging venture, in 8 and adventure that has included addition to studying taking around 200 flights in the coral and highlighting its degradation, last few years. before making his way “There’s the actual unknown, through Papua New where people have never been Guinea. 7 before, and then there is the inner unknown, which is what one 8. INDIA discovers when venturing into SEPT. 2017 these experiences,” Brinlee Jr. says. - OCTOBER 2017 “And I think that, for the average Plans to climb some person, they don’t have to venture of the “virgin” 9. ARCTIC OCEAN to the South Pole to discover the 26,000-foot peaks & GREENLAND 9 the Indian experiences because they can government recently MAY - AUGUST/ discover them internally if they opened up to be SEPTEMBER 2018 push themselves out of their summited for the first Plans to undertake a comfort zone. That is something solo crossing of time. Then on to that Mike is very adamant about Borneo and Greenland before and something I can relate to in Indonesia. hopping aboard the Pangaea for the return my daily life as well.” trip to Monaco. For the video series on Horn’s crossing, head to redbulletin.com

THE RED BULLETIN 43 ÄNGIE IS EVERY POP TALENT SHOW’S WORST NIGHTMARE: A PROVOCATEUR WHO THRIVES ON CONFLICT AND COULDN’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE RULES. AND THAT’S WHY THE YOUNG SWEDE’S CAREER IS ON A DIZZYING UPWARD TRAJECTORY. “I’M NOT GONNA BE BARBIE” WORDS: FLORIAN OBKIRCHER PHOTOGRAPHY: ALBERTO VAN STOKKUM STYLING: SOO-HI SONG

“THERE’S NOTHING MORE BORING THAN PERFECTION.”

ngie has fan clubs in Brazil and Russia, even though her music isn’t given airtime there. The British press, too, have woken up to the 21-year-old Swede, even though she has released only two songs. So how does that work? Simple: Ängie does all the things a young, up- and-coming pop star isn’t meant to do. The name of her debut single doesn’t hurt, either. The Stockholm-based rapper began making music professionally two years ago after she sent a local producer a video she shot of herself in the bath, spitting nonsensical rhymes. Soon she was recording said single, “Smoke Weed Eat P*ssy,” in the studio of chart-topping producer and DJ Avicii and signing a record deal with industry giant Universal Music. The salacious, expletive-laced track was too hot for some radio stations to handle, but it was still a hit thanks to YouTube and some eager mentions among British journalists, who declared it 2016’s most risqué song. It was certainly an unusual start to a career, and yet that suited Ängie just fine. Because, as she reveals, if you want to be successful, you have to make demands of your audience. the red bulletin: How does one become the most controversial pop star of the year? ängie: In my case, it was very simple. I just sing about the things I most enjoy. So is your recording debut, “Smoke Weed Eat P*ssy,” something of an autobiographical statement? It was at the time I wrote that song. My girlfriend had just left me, and I had a lot of time on my hands. I was very active sexually at that point.

to date [“Smoke Weed Eat P*ssy” and the follow-up, “Housewife Spliffin’”]? I suffered from a severe attention deficit disorder when I was a teenager. Doctors prescribed tablets, but I don’t trust chemical stuff. Smoking helped me out of my depression. It also helps me creatively. If it weren’t for weed, I would probably never have started writing songs. Why is that? It sends my brain into a spin. Most people would probably take that as a reason not to indulge. Let me put it another way: It opens up the parts of my brain I can’t open myself. It’s like you’re exposed to things you don’t want to feel, but that you need to feel in order to find yourself. It’s weird. And what about the other main topic of your songs? Do you mean oral sex? It’s an important subject. It’s totally undervalued. How do you mean? Men pay too little attention to a woman’s pleasure during sex. What’s the reason for that? Is it because men are insecure? There have always been lyrics about “LISTENING TO Oh, please! We’re all insecure. And the sex and drugs in the music business. only thing that helps you get over your Why do you think your song in MY MUSIC IS insecurity is gaining experience. particular proved so inflammatory? NOT THE BEST So, would it be appropriate to ask you Because I’m a girl who’s into flowers and IDEA IF YOU for some tips? pink clothes, and girls who are into It’s very simple. Speak to your girlfriend. flowers and pink clothes don’t normally LIVE A VERY Switch off macho mode. Ask her what sing about weed and oral sex. CONSTRICTED it is she likes. And, just as importantly, Your music videos are full of that LIFE.” don’t think that your technique will work kind of contradiction. In one scene, on every woman. you’re the princess in pastel-colored Most young musicians are very dresses, and in the next you’re showing cautious as they go about establishing off your tattoos and smoking. Do you wear them with pride!” I want to give their career, because they don’t want to enjoy playing around with young women self-confidence like that. blow their chances with radio stations. stereotypes? I want to show the world you can be But then you go and release singles Totally. Because there’s nothing beautiful with your imperfections. with lyrics that are too racy, even for more boring in life than perfection. Where does a 21-year-old get the the nighttime slot ... Imperfections are perfect! You’ve got confidence to stick her middle finger There’s nothing I could possibly care less to surprise people to be successful in up at show business and reject its about than radio. life. You have to create contrasts. perception of beauty? But isn’t radio airplay the cornerstone Don’t such erratic antics unsettle I learned that from this guy [she points of every music Career? your audience? to a tattoo on her right arm: the name That used to be the case. But now people On the contrary—I think that’s how you “Lou Reed” encircled by a heart]. He was are discovering new music on YouTube. arouse people’s curiosity. Take Rihanna: an ingenious songwriter and the coolest That’s why the most important part of She only really got cool when she started guy ever. Lou Reed didn’t give a damn my artistic work is making super-cool letting her inner thug shine through. about anything. And he just loved giving videos and playing with visual ideas as She stopped being this typical girl. And journalists hell in interviews. I hope he much as I possibly can. I’m not gonna be a Barbie doll, either. would be proud of me. But there are comments on your own People should see me as I am—with How proud are your parents of their YouTube channel from people who all the stripes I have on my ass. daughter’s career? think you take things too far. What Er, what? My father doesn’t like me singing about do you say to them? I recently posted a picture of my stretch drugs. But my mother is my biggest fan. I’m with Lou Reed on that one, too. marks on Instagram. This girl saw it and Recently, and without my knowledge, He once said, “Maybe listening to my wrote to me, saying, “I’m so happy that she had a T-shirt printed with my pink music is not the best idea if you live you show that on Instagram, because hemp-leaf logo on the front. a very constricted life.” I feel so bad about mine.” And I was like, While we’re on the subject of weed, Ängie’s new single, “Spun,” is out now; “Girl! Every other girl has them—just why has it featured in both your songs facebook.com/lilweedhoe

THE RED BULLETIN 49 The art of ...

Whiddett’s Mazda SP3 RX-8, known as BADBUL, greedily guzzles South African tarmac. “Mad” Mike Whiddett, the Kiwi driver who tore around South Africa’s Franschhoek Pass at speeds approaching 155 mph, understands focus. Maintaining it while drifting at such insane speeds requires you to see the car you’re driving as TYRONE BRADLEY/RED BULL CONTENT POOL an extension of your body. Words: Jazz Kuschke

Smell the burn as Mad Mike screams through a corner of the iconic Franschhoek Pass in South Africa’s Cape winelands. TYRONE BRADLEY/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

52 ... losing control All focus and control: The 36- year-old drifter began racing motocross when he was just 6. Whiddett’s 1-year-old daughter, Jett, gets a taste of local drifting action.

“As much as I want to be wild, I have to be mentally focused.” MAD MIKE WHIDDETT

rifting may look like a sport that requires the driver to you have runoffs and sand lose control, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. traps, K-rails and tire walls. It is, in fact, a sport that requires an entirely new level Here, if you slide off the road, of control. At 154 mph and 8,800 rpm, you need to have it’s game over. your wits about you. This is how world-renowned Kiwi drifter “Mad” Mike Whiddett attacked the corners of “Drifting is hard—you always Franschhoek Pass, near Cape Town in South Africa, need to be thinking about the driving BADBUL—his quite insane triple-rotor Mazda next corner, because you set SP3 RX-8—in September last year. the car up for the turn on the D previous one. All the while, The “Mad Mike” moniker, given to him by a commentator though, you also have to be during his previous career in freestyle motocross, is now thinking about exactly what something of an oxymoron: Behind the wheel, Whiddett you are doing at that point in appears ice-cool and ultra-focused. According to the time. Now, it’s just like natural 36-year-old, when he climbs into the driver’s seat he has instinct—I consider the car to remove all fear from his mind. “You can’t think about an extension of my body.” the risks,” explains Whiddett. “Back when I used to do freestyle motocross, I’d think a lot about the what-ifs, Whiddett also believes that and I had a lot of crashes.” maintaining focus has as much to do with the right He’s made his name through managing his fear in preparation as it does with challenging situations such as these. In the lead-up to on-the-track concentration. last year’s attempt on the pass, he was in fine form, “I used to listen to music and explaining the difference between drifting passes and was always very hyped,” he

CRAIG KOLESKY/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, TYRONE BRADLEY/RED BULL CONTENT POOL CONTENT BULL POOL, TYRONE BRADLEY/RED CONTENT BULL KOLESKY/RED CRAIG drifting tracks: “You go to racetracks and you push explains, adding that he has beyond your boundaries, and if you slide off the track a far calmer approach these

THE RED BULLETIN 55 “When you’re behind the wheel, you have to be 100 percent confident ... because with the smallest error, it could easily be game over, and not just for the car.”

Welcome to Cape Town: BADBUL was shipped directly to South Africa after Whiddett’s appearance at last year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Mad Mike on fear, focus and setting up the next corner...

When a “regular” driver loses There’s obviously a lot of grip, they panic and try to preparation for something like countersteer to get the car the Franschhoek Pass project... back on track, but for you Oh yeah. Of course there’s the it’s about purposefully letting car and parts and stuff, but the The belly of the beast: Inside the wheels go, right? mental prep is crucial, too. As the cockpit of Whiddett’s Mazda SP3 RX-8 drift machine. Drifting is a very unique form of much as I want to be wild, I have driving—it’s beyond the limit of to be switched on and mentally traction—so to the uninitiated focused. As soon as you’re it looks as if you’re out of control. thinking about that danger days. “In terms of competition, I could visualize the win, But it’s quite the opposite, element and what could go wrong, but I wasn’t always visualizing the way there—you have actually. It’s a whole new level that’s the moment when things to get to the finish line first.” —another dimension or sense usually do go wrong. When I was of control, if you wish. Drifters in freestyle motocross, I was The Franschhoek Pass, located between Franschhoek learn how to control the car young and I’d think about those and Villiersdorp, is arguably one of South Africa’s most when it’s not in control. sorts of things, and I crashed spectacular passes. Originally known as “Olifant’s Pad” How do you even begin to learn a lot, broke a lot of bones and —a reference to the route that elephants would take to something like that? had a lot of concussions ... cross the mountains into the valley to calve—this path When I first started, cars were So now you don’t get scared? more set up to be slippery. It was With sports psychology and all was followed by herdsmen and, later, by settlers on all about cool, noisy, powerful the things I’ve been doing to train horseback. It was only in 1822 that Lord Charles engines, and we would just take my brain and get myself in focus, Somerset ordered the pass to be built, making it South grip out of the cars so they would I’ve learned to wipe fear. I mean, Africa’s first properly engineered road. slide easily. Today it’s different. I get scared, for sure. But when The Mazda RX-8 has a lot of you’re behind the wheel, you Today, the 9-mile route, with its famous tight hairpins power—over 800 hp at the tire cannot be scared—you have to be and sweeping views, is a Saturday-morning favorite —and that power is needed just 100 percent confident and 100 for bikers, cyclists and drivers alike. This relative peace to overcome the grip of the Nitto percent focused, because with was shattered by Whiddett revving some 800-plus tires we run. We have grippy the smallest error it could easily horsepower. If you’re going to put your life on the line tires to make accurate, dynamic be game over, and not just for my on Franschhoek Pass at close to 155 mph, you might as turns, and then very powerful car. Another element of drifting is well look cool doing it, right? engines to overcome that and that while you’re in a corner and initiate the drift. focused on what you’re doing right Whiddett has won a string of titles in BADBUL, and Those tires can’t last too long... then, you’re already setting up the completed numerous world-first drives, this attempt They don’t! For Franschhoek car for the next corner. being the latest to add to the list. Pass, we swapped from the Nitto What’s next for you? NT05R, which is the tire that As a driver, you want to “There is only so much you can do before you arrive,” we race on, to the NT555R. It’s progress and just keep going he explains. “Google Earth, some photos, maps ... you a harder compound, but also a faster. Every time you hit a corner, know, that sort of thing. With most of the stuff we’re high-performance street radial. you want to enter faster and with Thanks to the compound, instead more angle. That’s what we’ll doing, something like Franschhoek Pass, you only really of only being able to do three keep working on. get a feel for it once you’re on the ground.” or four corners, as we would in competition, we were able to drive Whiddett traveled with a full backup crew and almost an about 10 per set. entire vehicle in spare parts as backup for the project. The short film of Whiddett’s “The drive itself was just crazy,” he says of the pass. drift project, Conquer the Cape, “I can compare it a bit to Conquer the Crown—a very required meticulous preparation. successful project we did back home that was a game- changer for drifting because of the credibility the sport got for the precision driving. The scenery is very similar, but this road was far more raw, with massive cliff drops and not much runoff. Not much space for error.”

The pass was, of course, closed for the project, which took place under very strict control. Whiddett drove some of the corners in both directions and at times was entering in sixth gear and at well above 125 mph.

TYRONE BRADLEY/RED BULL CONTENT POOL CONTENT BULL TYRONE BRADLEY/RED Watch Conquer the Cape, the short film of Mad Mike’s Franschhoek Pass drift project, at redbull.com

57 King of clubs How can you tell you’re at a first-class club? Sei Moon, director of upscale London nightclub Drama Park Lane, is a man who knows—stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Usain Bolt and Rihanna pull all-nighters at his celebrity haunt. Words: Florian Obkircher Photography: Alex de Mora

Hot dancers, plenty of celebs and hip-hop beats: London club Drama Park Lane has the recipe for success.

The DJ decks at DPL are often ambushed by stars. Usain Bolt once played hip-hop tracks here.

“Idris Elba grabs the mic. Rita Ora dances at the decks. That sort of thing happens here all the time.” What makes a club world-class? These eight things, according to Sei Moon . . .

The dance crowd gathers at the DJ decks and on the glass balcony. 1. Brand awareness “What makes a really good club different from a merely good club? The merely good club will find you with huge billboards and advertising, but the really good club you have to seek out yourself. High visibility doesn’t 3. A top- necessarily attract the best notch sound people, and you can’t have a great night out without good system company. There’s no neon sign “Don’t get too impressed by at the entrance to Drama Park size: You can’t see a good Lane, which is the opposite sound system, you have to feel of glamorous. And look at it. Test it on the dance floor. our entrance; you have to go What does the sound feel like? through a parking lot to get Do you have to roar in the ear into the club. We learned this of the person you’re dancing reserved approach to outward with? Both would be signs of appearance from [legendary poor sound. We have a fully NYC club] Studio 54. They were immersive Funktion-One sound one of the first ones who didn’t system, and because of our do much promotion of their L-shaped layout, we have more club. It was word of mouth.” speakers than most clubs. What was important for us 2. The best during its installation was that DJ lineups every point in the club would have top-end sound and you’d “Anyone can book a star DJ, never hear any fluctuations.” especially big clubs with thousands of revelers. But 4. Elements you can tell a top club by the popularity of its DJs in relation of surprise to its capacity. In 2016, we had “You work hard, stuck on your big names like Guy Gerber and hamster wheel five days a Major Lazer [whose “Lean On” week. What do you want on the is the second-most-streamed weekend? You want to escape. song on Spotify with around You want to be surprised. And 900 million hits] for a crowd that’s exactly what a top club of 300. That way, you know should offer. It’s not unusual artists are enjoying their gigs at Drama Park Lane for stars at a given club. When Major like Idris Elba to grab the Lazer’s Diplo played here, he microphone and start rapping. spent the entire night—in Or for Rita Ora to be dancing between DJing—Snapchatting at the decks. Or for Usain Bolt our performers. And having to decide to storm the decks someone like him, who has all of a sudden and play some seen pretty much everything, hip-hop tunes. Why do they doing that speaks for itself.” do it? It’s not because they’re bound by any contract. It’s because, just like all the other people in our club, they’re The gilded back room of the club has been hired out by the likes of Drake. The enjoying that anything-is- price: $30,000 for the night. possible party moment.”

61 DJ Hennie V is seen as the “President of 7. Incredible Nightlife” back home in Toronto, and his interiors fans include Lady Gaga. “There’s no single look that marks out a top club. But one thing that all world-class clubs have in common is the idea of being a work in 5. Length of progress, so regulars feel the line they’re having a brand-new “No one wants to spend the experience every time. When night outside instead of on the you enter DPL, it’s almost dance floor. That said, avoid like walking into a gallery. any club without a line. You Every three months we invite wouldn’t eat in a restaurant an artist, such as British with only one person inside, pop-art icon Ben Levy, to and it’s the same with a club. change the club’s look with To cut a long story short, if installations, as we believe there’s no line, it’s a pretty art has a very viable and clear sign that people don’t important connection to actually want to be at the hospitality. Also, we have the venue. My recommendation coolest bathrooms you will is that if you want to get into ever see. They were designed DPL, show up by 10:30—half an by an artist named Doodle hour before the doors open— Man. It’s a fully immersive as there’ll be 100-plus people toilet-art experience!” in the line by 11. The dress code is smart casual. If you 8. Size and look good, we’ll let you in.” intimacy “When people talk about top 6. Location clubs, they often think of these “In this fast-moving business, massive venues in Ibiza that it’s often impossible to make are full of thousands of people conclusions about a club’s every night. But I believe that quality based on its history. most millennials prefer to Our club is quite young; it’s spend time in more intimate only been going for a year spaces than in these mass- and a half. So what to do if market clubs. At the end of you’re a man about town? the day, club size is also the Check out the club’s location, reason why celebrities such because a venue is usually as Drake and Andy Murray a reflection of the area it’s in. have made repeat visits to With regard to DPL, ours is DPL. It’s cozy here, and they the only club on Park Lane, the feel at home.” most expensive street on the dramaparklane.com Monopoly board. The club is right beside Hyde Park, in the basement of the London Hilton on Park Lane hotel. There’s not a lot more to be said about how exclusive DPL is.”

Dance time at this late-night paradise: 11 p.m. to 3 a.m., Thursday to Sunday.

62 “Avoid any club that doesn’t have a line

On Fridays, the party has a hotel theme, outside. You with the bar staff dressed as chefs and the dancers playing maids. wouldn’t eat in an empty restaurant, would you?” SURVIVAL IS

Entrepreneur Sam Cossman is guided by the belief that technology has the potential to help us better understand the most severe places on Earth. But whenANALOG he traveled to Mongolia to train with an eagle master, he found tech no match for ancient knowledge passed down through generations. PHOTOGRAPHY: JUSTIN BASTIEN

64 The last light of day catches eagle master Kazibek. ast year there wasn’t an eagle-hunting competition that Kairatkhan didn’t win. The herder, a native of the Bayan-Ölgii region in the northwest of Mongolia, swept all three of the events, including the prestigious Golden Eagle Festival. His dominance was such that Mongolia’s president awarded him a medal of honor. But reputation isn’t the only thing at stake. During the harsh Mongolian winter—when humans are most challenged in the steppes—Kairatkhan’s golden eagles are the source of sustenance. The arctic foxes and small animals they kill provide meat and the fur that clothes him and his family. And it’s precisely that line between life and death that prompted explorer and start-up veteran Sam Cossman to fly thousands of miles to spend Christmas in an adobe hut in subzero temperatures. “I come from this world of developers using modern tools to disrupt and innovate, and essentially, those are the wizards of our time. They’re writing in a new language; they’re developing tech that they haven’t been able to in the past,” Cossman says. “You can almost call Kairatkhan a programmer. He has received tribal knowledge that has been passed down. And now his language is his ability to communicate with this animal and develop and program this animal. It’s the analog version of the digital world that we experience here.” “THERE’S A CERTAIN BRILLIANCE THAT COMES FROM SILENCE, FROM SELF-REFLECTION.” Cossman traveled to Bayan-Ölgii, the westernmost province and highest elevation in Mongolia, where the Kazakh majority still practices eagle hunting. Kairatkhan is considered one of the best left, and he’s eager to pass his knowledge on to younger generations—if they’ll listen.

67 A native of Georgia, Cossman grew up in the outdoors. When it came time to pick a career, the hustle and energy of the start-up world attracted him. He worked at a few companies before a trip to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake changed his life. “It made me realize that life was short, and I wanted to spend my time doing something meaningful and purpose driven,” he says. “And the thing I always loved was adventure and exploration. I think of adventure as more of a self- serving act, whereas exploration has a purpose- driven component.” He first launched his company Qwake as an online marketplace/idea incubator, hoping to match people with unique skill sets—say falconers—with outdoor enthusiasts. But as a business it proved difficult to scale, so he shelved the idea for a time. Meanwhile, he was invited on a trip to descend into the lava lake of Marum Crater, an active volcano in the South Pacific. A video of the experience he cut on his MacBook on the flight home went viral and landed him on Good Morning America. Now he’s resurrected Qwake as an exploration and tech-focused media company. “I feel like tech is opening new doors and peeling back layers to the unknown in a way we weren’t able to before,” he says. “And I had the idea that I’d like to go into the world’s extreme environments and leverage tech as a way to learn more about our planet so we can improve the quality of life for our species and solve problems in interesting ways.” And so he plotted the trip to Mongolia to visit Kairatkhan, from whom he hoped to learn how to

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Cossman shows Kairatkhan the data collected by a GPS transmitter—from the eagle’s flight path to attack speed.

68 THE RED BULLETIN Kairatkhan and Cossman, working with White Shoulder.

THE RED BULLETIN 69 More than just a tool THE MASTER for hunting, eagles are almost like family. Born and raised in the Altai Mountains, Kairatkhan is a herder like his father before him. The 50-year- old says it took him 30 years to become a true eagle master.

Where does eagle training begin? You have to become an apprentice of an experienced eagle master. You go and stay with him—at least for a month or two—and he will show you how to feed it, take you hunting, how to fly it. Then, once you have your own eagle you have to practice with it. It’s not something you start and then give up. And the eagle is not a machine. It has its own individual behaviors and manners, and each eagle is different. Were you a natural? No, it took me three years in order to understand how much effort you have to put in and how much time you have to dedicate to your eagle. My first The adobe dwellings bird, I thought it had enough training are heated via water when I took it out. But whenever we and old stoves. went hunting it wouldn’t fly. It would see a rabbit or a fox, or a wolf or wildcat—anything—and it would just sit there. It was a matter of my confidence in the eagle, but also the eagle’s confidence in me. I went to one of the elder hunters to get some advice. They said I should concentrate on the feeding. When you are first training, you have to know the right portion of meat to give your eagle. If you give it too much, or not enough, the eagle won’t be tamed. Now, not only are you a master, you’re a competition winner. My most important motivation is learning and sharing. I always learn from others, no matter how many years of experience I have. When I travel from one place to another, or when it comes to the festivals or any kind of contest, I usually go there to learn and to gain other experiences or other skills, not to just win the contest. Are the youth as eager to learn? I’ve seen younger generations who were really committed to being eagle hunters. But after seeing all these hunt with eagles. In his bags, he packed a tracking difficulties—traveling in the cold, device from the Marshall Radio Telemetry company going up and down the mountains, that his friend Jim Tigan, a master falconer, had and not having good luck every day recommended. Via a GPS transmitter and mobile catching an animal—they just gave up. You have to be mentally strong application, it can geo-locate and map the flight enough to face some of the failures or patterns of birds of prey while tracking other some of the bad luck. But if there is a metrics in real time. strong bond between you and your Over the course of a week, Cossman and ELECTRICITY CAME TO eagle, then nothing is impossible. photographer Justin Bastien lived in the adobe THE AREA TWO YEARS What I’ve learned from my own dwelling. Electricity had come to the area two years experience is that if you have the AGO, BUT THE HOME passion and the patience, it turns ago, but the dwelling was heated by a stove fed with into dedication. So when you are surprisingly fragrant manure. They accompanied WAS HEATED WITH A passionate and patient, there is Kairatkhan and other eagle masters as they hunted on nothing that’s impossible. horseback, gaining insight into the training and care FRAGRANT MANURE. —Interview by Sam Cossman

70 THE RED BULLETIN “IF THERE IS A STRONG BOND, THEN NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.”

Eagle hunting is a dying art, with only an estimated 250 practitioners left, as the youth move to the city to seek their fortune. Hunter Kazibek (this page) scans the horizon with intensity as his eagle remains hooded; the birds need to come in high and with a lot of speed in order to catch the nimble red foxes. “THE EAGLE IS NOT A MACHINE. IT HAS ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORS.”

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74 THE RED BULLETIN TOOLS OF THE TRADE Kairatkhan’s gear is all homemade and as a result is easier to repair while on a hunt.

1. Fox-fur hat lined and topped with silk and eagle feathers 2. Horsehide jacket 3. Thick leather eagle-hunter glove to protect against strong, sharp talons 4. Eagle’s eating bowl 5. Saddlebags for storage on long rides 6. Eagle treat bag, containing pieces of fox meat and bone “HE SAID THE KEY TO SUCCESS IS HAVING A SENSE 7. Eagle brace to OF RAPPORT AND TRUST WITH YOUR ANIMAL.” support the load of the eagle on long rides. The brace rests on the provided to the birds by their owners and the bond— “Kairatkhan had engaged in many hunts, but this saddle; the rider’s developed over years—necessary for success. was the first he viewed through a data-driven lens,” hand is placed on “I wanted to know whether the bird was just a Cossman says. “And while it was clear that modern the sling to take weight of the bird tool,” Cossman says. “And he said the key to the technology was no match for tribal knowledge off the arm success in eagle hunting is having a sense of rapport passed down through generations, the process of and trust with your animal. It requires you to treat cross-cultural, generational and disciplinary 8. Wire to get foxes out the bird as a friend, in many cases like a child. We knowledge sharing was enriching beyond words.” of fox holes literally slept six feet from an eagle.” There are an estimated 250 eagle hunters left in More than a practice, hunting with an eagle was the region, all of them Kazakhs who migrated from 9. Classic ’80s binoculars an art form, Cossman realized. He began to wonder their nearby country during communism. And the wrapped in whether the device he’d brought with him was younger generation—including a few of Kairatkhan’s protective really worth introducing. “I didn’t want to impose five children—are choosing to abandon the practice silk scarf technology as this almighty solution,” he says. for life in the cities. Cossman, who made a similar, if 10. Homemade But while Cossman was able to make the device less rugged, transition from Georgia to Silicon binocular bag work successfully when he attached it to a drone, Valley, understands their motivations. Still, when mounting it on White Shoulder’s 10-foot wingspan he looks at the life of focus Kairatkhan leads—in all in minus 22°F temperatures proved far too difficult of its analog glory—he can’t help but think that the a task. As a backup, Cossman had a GoPro dog- simplicity and generosity of his approach serves as harness mount that was easier. Together with two a vital lesson for this digital age others, he lifted White Shoulder’s wings while “There’s a pace and cadence to his life that’s really slipping the straps on. admirable,” he says. “There’s a certain brilliance that Using the AeroVision app, Cossman and comes from silence, self-reflection and valuing the Kairatkhan were able to watch the eagle’s flight things that really matter in life. It was clear he was an pattern in real time. They learned that the path incredible family man, and also took a tremendous she covered was perpendicular to that of her prey, amount of pride in sharing his knowledge. There is making the approach more direct. When she no ownership. He was open-sourcing his whole depth descended for a kill, she did so at a rate of 235 of knowledge around this craft.” feet per minute, hitting her prey at 42 mph. See video of Cossman’s trip at redbulletin.com

THE RED BULLETIN 75 Lucha libre can’t be all that violent, right? Think again. This is definitely not WWE.

76 BEHIND THE MASK South African wrestler Adam Bridle traveled to Mexico intending to stay for a few months. Eight years later, he’s still there. The reason? He knows that in the Mexican ring, the more you risk, the more you stand to gain. Words: Alejandro Serrano Photography: Paolo Marchesi

“What I like the most are the aerial moves. They were invented in Mexico.” Adam Bridle

ROPE TRICK Bridle pounces on his opponent, Argenis, with one of his trademark leaps.

79 a masked wrestler fights an Johannesburg, South Africa. Second, unlike most unmasked one. If the unmasked luchadores, Bridle has no qualms about fighting one loses and he has long hair ... unmasked. Third, Bridle is a well-known figure it’s goodbye to those locks.” at Arena Naucalpan, has a lot of followers and, Getting an unexpected haircut after eight years of hard work under the ring is nothing, though, compared with name of Angélico, is getting results. a fighter being unmasked—a huge The South African belongs to the wrestling humiliation in a sport defined by organization Lucha Libre AAA, which, alongside he lighting manager the often extravagant mystery the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)— at Mexico’s Arena surrounding those taking part. or World Wrestling Council—has kept the sport Naucalpan, an “People go crazy,” explains the alive in Mexico. In 1992, the late Antonio Peña, indoor sports venue fighter known as Argenis, “because one of the most important bookers from the in the northwest of they take everything away [from CMLL, founded Lucha Libre AAA with the aim the capital, figures the unmasked fighter]. According of promoting the sport even further. Thanks to he’s seen just about everything to the rules, wrestlers who unmask this initiative, wrestlers like Bridle and Argenis the technicolor world of Mexican their opponents are automatically —his rival for our photo shoot—have been able Twrestling—aka lucha libre—can disqualified. But the real loser is to capture the attention of filmmakers such as throw at a man. the unmasked fighter, because the Robert Rodríguez, who invited them to take part “You see and hear all kinds of mask represents his honor.” in the El Rey Network’s show Lucha Underground. things,” grins Rey. This includes For this reason, Argenis has (The first two seasons air on Netflix this spring.) everything from polite-looking never allowed himself to be But why would a South African leave his own Mexican families bellowing the photographed without his mask. country to learn to wrestle? Bridle explains foulest obscenities at fighters, to However, not all wrestlers are that in the beginning he lived with a group of drops of wrestlers’ blood falling like this. Adam Bridle, for Japanese wrestlers who had a dojo above Arena onto the spectators, to flying example. But then, there’s plenty Naucalpan. “It was the only place I knew in fighters who crash into the crowd about Bridle that sets him apart Mexico,” he says. “My Japanese housemates when they’re hurled out of the from the steady stream of local were very strict and would go to bed at 11 p.m.” ring. “We have hundreds of fighters losing their hair and Gradually, he built a level of trust with the best damaged chairs, whole rows that their teeth in a sport that, while fighters, who saw how the sport intrigued him have been crushed, and mangled designed to deliver maximum and how determined he was to take part. Over tables back there,” says the man melodrama, can be every bit time, he set his sights on the high-risk fighting also known as El Virus. as physically demanding and style and learned as much as he could. “I’ve even had to shave traumatic as a bloody mixed- someone’s head while they were martial-arts matchup. the red bulletin: You traveled to Japan, unconscious,” he adds, without First, he’s not exactly a local. the U.S. and Mexico to learn to wrestle. Why batting an eye. “In matches, In fact, the 29-year-old hails from did you choose to stay in Mexico? You’ve been here for eight years now. adam bridle: I think it was because of the style —I like the wrestling in Mexico best. It’s not as slow, and it focuses less on body mass, unlike in the U.S. It has always appealed to me more. Which aspects in particular? What I like most are the aerial moves, which are riskier. This practice is typically associated with lucha libre. In other parts of the world they use aerial maneuvers like front or backward rolls, and all these moves came from Mexico. When I watched wrestling as a child, I was drawn to that style the most, largely because it was high risk. Is there an artistic element to the Mexican style of fighting? Of course there is. In fact, all four wrestling styles have it: European, American, Japanese and Mexican. I consider all four to be a unique art form. Each has a defined format, a way of telling a story, and its own way of interacting with people. What story does lucha libre tell? If you compare it to American wrestling, which tells the most simple story of good guys versus bad guys, lucha libre focuses more on a high-risk narrative: The more risks you take, the greater THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD your chances of winning over the audience. The luchadores take big risks with their lives every time they step into the ring. It’s about which fighter will make the most Here, a fighter finds time for reflection and a silent prayer before battle begins. dangerous moves in order to gain the fans’

80 THE RED BULLETIN Bridle, the South African luchador who’s playing the Mexicans at their own game. “Argenis’s specialty is somersaulting from the ropes.” Adam Bridle

Unmask a fighter and he loses everything, even though it’s his opponent who’s disqualified. Legendary Mexican wrestler El Santo only revealed his face at the end of his career. respect. People like that, because you have to And if you compare it to Japan? Europe and South Africa. When expose your body to win the fight. What story do they tell there? I got to Mexico, I felt there was a Are Mexican mentors different from those in The main story focuses on lot more history behind the sport. other countries? strength and your level of bravery. The trainers and masters have a Of course. One hundred percent. The way The audience wants to see how different mentality when it comes you’re taught to fight, and even to think about much of a battering you can take to fighting. They have a lot more wrestling, is unique. In America, it’s all about the before you give up. The training information and freedom. I was psychology of telling a story in a way that people over there is the hardest and lucky because I didn’t choose will understand. In Mexico, they never teach you strictest of all; the Japanese are them, they chose me. how to tell a story; what they care about is having unrivaled in terms of discipline. Really? And why do you think wrestlers who dare to do somersaults and turns, It’s very difficult to become a they chose you? who dodge their opponent and who know how to professional wrestler in Japan. Perhaps because when I was move in general. It’s all about being as agile and So if Japanese wrestling is the younger I wanted it more. So as entertaining as possible. most difficult, why did you when I showed them how keen So the audiences don’t care as much about the decide to stay in Mexico? I was, it was clear I was desperate battle between “good and evil.” Would you say When I started here, my trainer, to open up as many doors as I that lucha libre flows more smoothly? Negro Navarro—one of the could into lucha libre. My mind In my opinion, lucha libre is like a circus version world’s best-known trainers of was completely open to learning. of professional wrestling. When you go to a wrestling holds—taught me I would stay on for hours and match, you see the masks, the moves that you an infinite number of holds; he hours after the class had finished. won’t have seen anywhere else before—exotic had a book with about 400 to 500 I was always the last to leave, and people, female wrestlers and even midget different types. This was like an I would spend the whole time wrestlers, all in one show. encyclopedia of wrestling for me, asking questions. When they saw What’s the attitude of wrestlers in America? which you can’t access anywhere how determined I was, they also It’s harder. People are used to trampling all over else in the world. That’s one of the became eager to train me. one another in order to get to the top. special things about lucha libre. It’s like they had a lot to share, So it’s more individualistic? So you realized that these guys but they weren’t willing to teach Yes, a lot more. Here in Mexico, people are had something special? just anyone ... much more interested in helping you to go Yes, I had a feeling. I had trained It seems that way, doesn’t it? beyond your limits. in other places before that—in That’s how I feel anyway, because the first three months of my training were very different from the months following that period. It was almost as if I was on probation, and once they saw that I had goals, they liked that and they opened themselves up to me fully. They didn’t hold anything back; they constantly gave me more and more information. But how did you manage to persuade them to share all their wisdom with you, especially being a foreigner? If you show someone the respect they deserve—basically, they had been doing this for 23 years, while I had only been doing it for one—and if you’re humble and you come with an open mind and a willingness to learn, people see that. But it’s not just about that. I also learned a lot from them as people; I learned about their life experiences. They told me stories about how they had managed family life, fame, money ... The relationship has to become very personal, and that only happened because they could see I TRICKY TURNS Not only can you slip and break a bone, but if you perform this move incorrectly you can injure wasn’t arrogant at all. I found a your neck permanently. According to Bridle and Argenis, several wrestlers have died after falling more shared way of thinking, and badly. You can end up unconscious with fractures and pulled muscles or, more commonly, cracking I liked that about Mexico. your head open on the floor, or on the chairs that are thrown at you. elreynetwork.com

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