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Kit DesLauriers chronicles her successful two-year Seven Summits quest in Higher Love: Skiing the Seven Summits. kitdski.com

Photograph: Jimmy Chin, jimmychin.com, @jimmychin

Dave Parmenter is a surfer, surfboard shaper, and one of surfing’s most accomplished writers. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California.

Photograph: Corey Arnold, coreyfishes.com, @arni_coraldo

Author Christie Aschwanden is the former lead science writer for fivethirtyeight.com, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She lives in Cedaredge, Colorado. christieaschwanden.com, @cragcrest

The North Shore of Vancouver is comprised of three mountains (from east to west): Seymour, Fromme, and Cypress. Seymour has nearly 100 marked trails, some on logging roads and many accessed via shuttle. Fromme is the crown jewel, where you’ll find classics like Ladies Only, plus another 80 or so. Trails tend to be short, steep, and creative; there’s no shuttling. Cypress is the most untamed and unmarked of the three and there are far more experts-only lines.

Maps and Beta: North Shore Mountain Bike Association, nsmba.ca. Trailforks, trailforks.com.

Words: Vernon Felton is a contributing editor to Adventure Journal.

Photographs: Sterling Lorence, sterlinglorence.com, @eyeroam. Jordan Manley, jordanmanley.com, @jordanmanleyphoto. Margus Riga, @margusriga.

“I was rather young to be so far north, but there is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.” The words are by E.B. White and the year was 1923, when he climbed aboard a freighter and steamed to Alaska in search of adventure. White is best known for his children’s books, Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web—Charlotte is considered by librarians, teachers, and publishers to be the best children’s book published in the United States—but the commentary and essays he produced for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and other titles are unsurpassed for clarity, deprecating insight, and influence. Few of his works are as lauded as “Once More to the Lake” and none are more resonant.

Photographs: Russell Kaye, russellkaye.com, @russellkaye. Greta Rybus, gretarybus.com, @gretarybus. Richard Schultz, rschultz.com, @rschultzphoto.

Michael Engelhard’s story of his grizzly bear encounter will appear in his forthcoming essay collection, American Wild. Together with Ice Bear, his cultural history of an Arctic icon, the book will be out this fall.

Photographs: Erin McKittrick, groundtruthtrekking.org. Paxson Woebler, expeditionarguk.com.

Words: Jen See is a writer based in Santa Barbara, California. twobluebikes.com

Illustration: Lucy Engelman, lucyengelman.com, @lucyengelmanillustrations

Writer Brendan Leonard is a contributing editor to Adventure Journal and the author of several books, including The New American Road Trip Mixtape and Sixty Meters to Anywhere. semi-rad.com

The name Anasazi, which roughly translates from the Navajo as “ancient enemies,” has fallen out of favor, replaced with the more politically correct Ancestral Puebloans. But as David Roberts points out in his book, The Lost World of the Old Ones, many tribes, including the Navajo, were named by others, and Puebloan comes from the Spanish word for town, “to distinguish the relatively civilized indios pueblo from the nomadic savages they called indios bárbaro.” Acknowledging there’s no perfect name, we have chosen to use both commonly known terms.

For further reading, start with House of Rain, by Craig Childs, and In Search of the Old Ones, by David Roberts, or his newer The Lost World, mentioned above. Finders, Keepers, also by Childs, explores the ethics and challenge of discovering artifacts in situ, including the seed jar written about here.

Words: Craig Childs, houseofrain.com, @wandercrag

Photographs: Adriel Heisey, adrielheisey.com

Artist Julie Goldstein has a small, seasonal line of bags, tops, wetsuits, and prints called Swim With Me, which can be seen at swm.la. Her art portfolio can be viewed at juliegoldsteinstudio.com, @swmwithme.

Photographs: Mark Tesi, marktesi.com, @mark_tesi

The new model of sanctuary and conservation weaves the concerns of locals with the needs of endangered animals, and few are more visionary or successful than the Northern Rangelands Trust. nrt-kenya.org

National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale is based in Montana but good luck finding her there. She’s traveled to more than 90 countries and is likely adding to the total right now. amivitale.com, @amivitale

Yes, Freuchen was really that big, and yes, his wife was really that small. Twentieth century photography legend Irving Penn was known for his fashion work and portraiture, and his other subjects include Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Igor Stravinsky. irvingpenn.org

Setsumasa Kobayashi’s cabin was designed by architect Shin Ohori of General Design. general-design.net

Photographs: Daici Ano, fwdinc.jp. Dean Kaufman, deankaufman.com.

Menus are produced, written, and photographed by Megan McDuffie and Michael van Vliet, who, like the subjects in “Love on the Road,” are living nomadically in their vehicle. freshoffthegrid.com

Odds are you’re one of the 4 million people who follow Burkard on Instagram, but just in case you aren’t: chrisburkard.com, @chrisburkard