Iran. Those who visit tend to love it, but for many, it’s become synonymous with travel bans, cultural restrictions, poor human rights and high security. But what’s it like to travel there? Here’s what featured contributor Leon McCarron says. In late winter of 2014, my friend Tom Allen and I flew from London to the […]
Inaccessible Island is an actual place and appropriately named as far as islands go. You can, however, access Inaccessible Island, technically, though it’s fiendishly difficult. It’s a steep-cliffed island some 2,175 miles from South America and 1,740 miles from South Africa. No airplanes fly near Tristan da Cunha, the island chain it’s part of, though […]
Ross Edgley, a British adventurer who has pulled off some impressive, if questionable feats, like running an entire marathon while dragging a car on a tow rope and swimming massive lengths of the Caribbean Sea weighed down by a 100-pound hunk of wood, stepped into the Atlantic near the town of Kent, England, last June […]
It’s a beautiful place, Iceland. One of the most beautiful places I have ever been. The landscapes are magnificent and serene. You can travel for miles on end, undisturbed, free to daydream gently as you go. You are free to pitch your tent wherever you please in that big empty silence and sit and watch […]
Last month we presented the trailer for an exciting new short film about Malcolm Bass, Guy Buckingham, and Paul Figg making the first successful climb of Janhukot, near the headwaters of the Ganges, in the Indian Garhwal Himalaya. The brief trailer was gorgeous and whetted our appetite for more. The full film is now available […]
Adventure photographer Sebastian Copeland has spent more than a decade exploring the planet’s polar regions. Partly that’s because he’s a traveler, climber, and mountaineer by nature, but also because he hopes to share the fragility of these places with the vast majority of people who will never see them. Copeland wants to document what’s being […]
Alpinist, educator, business owner, award-winning mountain guide, and all-around badass Angela Hawse has every right to rest on her rather luminous laurels. After all, she’s spent the last 35 years introducing others to the wonders of rock, ice, and snow while guiding across five continents, including expeditions to over half of the Seven Summits. She’s […]
“I don’t think it would be fair to make a living selling photos without trying to help the people that I photograph,” says travel photographer Réhahn. Graeme Green speaks to the man on a serious mission to give something back. “I’m a ‘people person’,” says French travel photographer Réhahn. “I always spend a lot of […]
This short film was released a couple years back, but as the thermometer’s needle begins to dip in the northern hemisphere, our thoughts turn to shivering, cold water surf sessions, and it’s a film you can’t watch enough, really. Called Freezing, it’s a poke in the eye of overly serious surf films about exploring the […]
Charles Post is an ecologist, filmmaker, and photographer, originally from Northern California but now living in Montana. He spends a good chunk of his time traveling through the West, researching and telling stories about wildlife and conservation. Last year Post went to Texas to spend time around a bighorn sheep relocation project, an effort to […]