The Tumbleweed Gap Year
When their son missed the kindergarten cutoff date, they took it as a sign to travel the world
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Intro
In 1941, during World War II, an officer in the Italian colonial government in Ethiopia named Felice Benuzzi was captured by the British army and sent by train to a prisoner of war camp in Kenya, about ten miles from the equator. Benuzzi was a climber and dreamer and romantic, and Camp 354, while humane, … Read more
Mementos, Notes, and Fragments
Coolest passport ever, a life changed by a night camping, birds’ mindboggling hearing, and living off what falls from El Cap
The Mountains Are Calling and I Must Break Out of Prison to Go
During World War II, three POWs plotted an audacious escape to climb Mount Kenya
Stuck in the Middle With Goo
An oddly compelling argument in favor of the short-lived but much-maligned mud season
When the Cat’s Away, the Mice Will…Reshape Entire Ecosystems?
How the power of fear can alter the natural world
Out in the Wilderness
When time around the campfire brings focus to the declaration of who you really are
Portfolio: A Community of Sea Women
On a South Korean island, generations of female free divers have supported their families and remade society itself