ajtestbed Last Saturday morning, 85-year-old Dale Sanders strode up to the Bright Angel trailhead, between the bus turnaround and a tourist lodge on the Grand Canyon’s south rim, and with a huge grin splitting his extravagant white beard, shook his trekking poles triumphantly and hollered “I survived!” Truth is, he didn’t even look tired. As a … Read more
This month Ellen Falterman finished a 2,700-mile trip down the Mississippi and along the Gulf Coast to her home in East Texas, rowing an old aluminum canoe she rescued from her uncle’s chicken coop. “I asked him, ‘Does it float?’ and he said, ‘Well it’s full of water,’” Falterman told Adventure Journal. “So I said, … Read more
The Most Important River in the West is One You’ve Never Heard Of 9.04.2020 The Little Snake is a meandering flatwater stream wending across the Wyoming-Colorado line in country most people describe as empty, though it forms an essential corridor for migrating mammals and birds, and is full of subtle beauty if you know where … Read more
8.20.2020 It’s hard to keep track sometimes, what with protests in the streets, a dysfunctional electoral process hogging the headlines, and months of lockdown to avoid a mutant strain of virus that is very real, and very deadly. But do you remember when this crazy summer was at its sultriest, the calendar finally melting into … Read more
Angela Madsen, a paraplegic ocean rower attempting a solo crossing from Los Angeles to Honolulu, has perished at sea. Madsen, 60, roughly halfway through her voyage, entered the water on Sunday to repair a shackle used to attach a sea anchor to the bow of her boat. She was preparing for a tropical storm approaching … Read more
Ocean rower Angela Madsen is currently about a third of the way through a 3,500-mile crossing from Los Angeles to Hawaii, but that only begins to describe her remarkable journey. A single mom at 17, Madsen enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school, becoming a military police officer and a standout basketball player. An … Read more
The Global Shutdown Offers a Tantalizing Glimpse of a Cleaner Climate 4.15.2020 Last week, a hopeful news story made the rounds. After three weeks of lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, residents of Jalandhar in northern India could see the serrated ridges of the Himalaya on the horizon, more than 100 miles distant. … Read more
UPDATE, March 11, 2020: The partnership deal between the Explorers Club and Discovery has been signed. In its 116-year history, the Explorers Club has become synonymous with grand adventures and historic firsts, with an underpinning of scientific inquiry and often a whiff of old money. Club members have been the first atop Everest, the first … Read more
Neal Moore has spent much of the last few years trying to paddle west to east across the United States. In 2018 he made it more than 1,700 miles, bucking historic high water up the Columbia River and crossing the continental divide before calling it quits in North Dakota. He’d lost his canoe and most … Read more
Professional triathlete-turned-adventurer Colin O’Brady captured the public’s imagination in 2018 when he skied solo across 932 miles of Antarctica in 54 days and beat a rival explorer to the prize he immodestly termed The Impossible First. A little more than a year later, his book of the same title is a New York Times bestseller. … Read more