For the Love of Forbidden Swims
In a cold and beautiful Canadian fjord, questioning authority is a matter of protocol
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Her First Freight
Riding the rails begins with a cold, scary, mistake-filled trip through a very long night
Intro
“Go simple, go solo, go now” was Audrey Sutherland’s mantra, and the single mother of four lived by it, swimming the meagerly charted and rugged north coast of Molokai in 1962, towing a raft with supplies and sleeping at night on wild and empty beaches. Later, at age fifty-nine, she began a series of solo … Read more
Mementos, Notes, and Fragments
The first pocket multitool; a daring rescue; art imitates nature; gold fever on the Chilkoot Pass
Kitting Öut
Three decades after his mummy’s discovery on an Italian glacier, Ötzi the Iceman’s gear continues to reveal its secrets
The Cyclist and the Bear
An early morning meeting on a country mountain road leaves one limping and the other lighter