Joseph Kittinger, the Man Who Dove to Earth
First, the indescribable view. Earth, many miles below, twinkling blue, whorls of white and grey clouds. Home is down there somewhere, familiar f...
Read moreFirst, the indescribable view. Earth, many miles below, twinkling blue, whorls of white and grey clouds. Home is down there somewhere, familiar f...
Read moreIf you’re like us you have a few technical backpacks and daypacks and for day trips out to the backcountry, you’ll stuff one of those with the, w...
Read more"OH SHIT," I wrote in my journal. "All the light was just sucked out of the sky. The woods are VERY DARK." It was my first solo backcountry trip, ...
Read moreBeing a beginner sucks. There’s nothing worse. If you’ve managed to survive to adulthood while preserving even the tiniest, most minuscule shred o...
Read moreJust north of Santa Barbara lies a little surfing Shangri-La. It’s the private Hollister Ranch, 14 miles of pristine Southern California coastlin...
Read moreIn November 1937, Haldane “Buzz” Holmstrom sat in the sand below Lava Cliff, the last substantial rapid in Grand Canyon. He’d come nearly 1,000...
Read moreRoald Amundsen There's no evidence of this, but surely there must have been a saying among the great polar explorers of the nineteenth and early ...
Read moreThe first time Audrey Sutherland explored the rugged northeast coast of Moloka’i, she swam the 20-mile stretch. Forty-one years old, divorced, a ...
Read moreAs steam and rail shrunk the globe at the turn of the twentieth century, the race was on to claim the last great prizes of exploration—and of the...
Read moreTragedy seems easier to digest the further away it is in the past, but this doesn't seem to be the case with the drowning death of surfing legend...
Read moreChris Turney is the author of 1912: The Year The World Discovered Antarctica, a book about the five major expeditions converging on the southernmo...
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