Saving the Natural Word
A field guide to how language shapes our sense of place, and a powerful argument for the re-wilding of vocabulary
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Intro
This issue doesn’t have a theme, but stories of relationships predominate. A man takes his girlfriend, a relative newcomer to climbing, on a two-week big-wall ascent of El Cap. A woman wrestles with saying goodbye to her dog. A son takes his seventy-nine-year-old father on a twenty-eight-day trip down the Colorado River through the Grand … Read more
Lean and Hard and Sunbrowned and Kind
Audrey Sutherland’s lone-wolf spirit carried her thousands of solo miles through Hawaii and Alaska
Etymology: Send
How one little word came to have so much power
The Dyatlov Pass Mystery
Nine ski tourers went missing, nine ski tourers were found dead. To this day, no one knows how or why
Bike. Pack. Raft.
On the Lost Coast of Alaska, a crew of five tests the missing link to a new kind of adventure
A Strange Occurrence With Owls
In the red rocks, under a cold moon, contemplating the life and release of a beloved, impossible dog