The Massacre Rim towers 1,000 feet above Long Valley in the vast reaches of northwestern Nevada. As with most hikes in this part of the world, getting to the top requires picking out an unmarked route, being flexible and overcoming obstacles. Halfway up, after skirting yet another talus field, sharp chirping barks alert you to […]
While investigating the rise in malnutrition among young women in Southeast Asia, journalist Corinne Redfern has been fed some of the best food of her life. So what’s going on? The rough, steep track is scarred with cracks and crannies from the season’s heavy rain, and our small scooter’s tires are sliding wildly over the […]
Every year, some 30,000 camels descend on Pushkar, a small town in the state of Rajasthan, in what’s been billed as India’s “greatest tribal gathering”. Photographer Annapurna Mellor captures the madness. Gazing through his long, sandy eyelashes, the beast stares curiously into my lens. I’ve photographed camels before—on the dunes of the Gobi, the Sahara, […]
Scotland’s Shetland Islands are windswept and rugged, full of wide-open vistas, thousands of squawking migratory birds, awesome rock formations, and winding trails. An epic place for long, lingering walks and time spent decompressing in the joys of raw nature. It just so happens that doctors are increasingly starting to realize time spent outdoors can be […]
Sometimes a polar bear is a living symbol of climate change. Other times an image of a dying polar bear is basically raw meat for the people who want to deny the truth about global warming and demonize the scientists who are researching and communicating these important issues. That’s what happened last year when National […]
Though pop culture often presents surfing awash in sunny skies, in electric blue water, with tanned-to-perfection people riding waves in itty-bitty bathing suits, much of the world’s best surf actually has the audacity to break in cold, grey environs. The west coast of Canada, for example, is loaded with inlets, reefs, and points that shape […]
For the past few years, REI has shut down its entire business for Black Friday. The company gives its employees the day off, keeps it brick and mortar doors closed, and even flips over the “closed” sign on its website. All part of the #OptOutside campaign to emphasize, well, getting the hell out from behind a […]
While professional tour guides and Lonely Planets can help you get to grips with a place, on a return trip to China, featured contributor Leon McCarron finds that, sometimes, all you need to do is enlist the help of a local. I wasn’t quite sure why we’d been invited to the party. But there we […]
On a trip to Volcanoes National Park on the Rwanda and DRC border, travel writer Jon Holmes was expecting to see mountain gorillas, but he wasn’t expecting to learn how to speak to them. It’s safe to say that, for a long time, tourism wasn’t exactly on Rwanda’s mind. The 1994 genocide, easily within living […]
Author, food lover, and traveler Jen Sotolongo is a whiz at whipping up vegan recipes that can be made just as easily at a campsite as in a fully stocked kitchen. She recently spent a few years bike touring Europe and South America with her partner, building recipes along the way. Like this one for […]