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Writer David Page lives in Mammoth Lakes, California, and won the prestigious Lowell Thomas award for his book, Explorer’s Guide Yosemite & Southern Sierra Nevada. @davidtpage

Photographs: Christian Pondella. christianpondella.com, @christianpondella

Longtime surf journalist, editor, and author Nick Carroll is “regarded by many since the mid-’80s as the sport’s most popular and knowledgeable writer,” says the Encyclopedia of Surfing. So, yeah: Nick.

Photographs: Andrew Chisholm, andychiz.com. Ted Grambeau, tedgrambeauphotography.com, @tedgrambeau. Tim McKenna, tim-mckenna.com, @timmckenna. Russell Ord, russellordphoto.com. Jamie Scott, jamiescottimages.com, @jamiescottimages

AJ contributing editor Brendan Leonard has been on a book-writing tear. His memoir, Sixty Meters to Anywhere, was published to wide acclaim in 2016, and The Great Outdoors: A User’s Guide followed shortly thereafter in spring 2017. semi-rad.com, @semi_rad

Photographs: Dan Patitucci once called the eastern Sierra home but now lives in Switzerland, where he’s produced an online guide to mountain adventure called Alps Insight, alpsinsight.com. patitucciphoto.com, @danpatitucci

Jon Waterman excels at solving mysteries. In addition to sleuthing out what really happened to the three Powell expedition men who disappeared on the Arizona Strip, he investigated the wild story of Bob Jones, who claimed to have pioneered the main route up Denali years before Brad Washburn, the publicly recognized first ascensionist in our third issue.

Photographs: Pete McBride recently completed a 650-mile trek through the Grand Canyon for the National Geographic investigation, “Are We Losing the Grand Canyon.” petemcbride.com, @photogpedro

Author Greg Child’s notable climbs include Gasherbrum IV in 1986, K2 in 1990, Trango Tower in 1994, and Alaska’s Mt. Hunter in 1994. The Australian-born, Utah-based writer served as the president of the jury for the Piolet d’Or awards in 2011 and has penned a series of climbing books that are as funny as they are gripping. Start with Postcards from the Ledge.

Photographs: Tommy Heinrich was born in Argentina and earned his bones in Patagonia, then became the first person from Argentina to summit Everest. He’s been a part of three expeditions to K2, including the 2011 attempt that saw German climber Gerlinde Kaltebrunner become the first woman to summit the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen. tommyheinrich.com

Tom Clynes is the author of The Boy Who Played with Fusion and a frequent contributor to National Geographic. tomclynes.com, @tomclynes

Photographs: Portland, Maine-based Winky Lewis spends her summers on Isle au Haut, where her kids can run wild and free. winkylewisphoto.com, @winkylewis

The title for this story is derived from the journal of Robert Falcon Scott, who died in Antarctica after being second to the South Pole (“these rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale…”) and the name artist Olivia Tonge gave to her sketchbook (“Curious Fragment”). Scott and Tonge are just two of the adventurers included in the remarkable book, Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure, published by Thames & Hudson in the U.K. and Chronicle in the United States.

Explorers’ Sketchbooks is the latest project by husband and wife team Kari Herbert and Huw Lewis-Jones. Herbert is the daughter of polar adventurer Sir Wallace Herbert, and her first book, The Explorer’s Daughter, describes her childhood growing up in an isolated community in the north of Greenland. Lewis-Jones is a historian of exploration with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute and the National Maritime Museum in London and now writes and lectures widely about adventure and the visual arts, while also working as a polar guide. polarworld.co.uk

Author Justin Housman is a staff writer for Adventure Journal.

Photographs: Kate Webber. katewebberphotography.com, @katewebber

Menus are produced, written, and photographed by Megan McDuffie and Michael van Vliet, who after living full time on the road for several years have settled on the East Coast. freshoffthegrid.com, @freshoffthegrid

Evgenia Arbugaeva was born and raised in Tiksi, Siberia, in the Russian Arctic, and graduated from New York’s International Center for Photography in 2009. evgeniaarbugaeva.com