A road trip across Scandinavia is like no other. See the full post >

These are no ordinary wells. The ‘singing wells of Namunyak’ are where Kenya’s Samburu hersdsmen go to sing love songs to their cows. Oh, and to discuss village matters, plan raids and dance with their partners. Gavin Haines gets a rare insight. The guns, I want to know about the guns: What’s with all the […]

Four decades behind the camera have provided plenty of campfire stories for longtime nature filmmaker David Vassar. See the full post >

Somehow, VW Beetles make the perfect Baja desert rigs. See the full post >

Is the Garmin inReach Mini the best backcountry satellite messaging device? See the full post >

When Wikipedia dedicates an entire page to selfie-related injuries and deaths, you know we have a cultural phenomenon—or even an epidemic—on our hands. Lola Akinmade Åkerström explores the dangers of abandoning our instincts in search of instant gratification. By the time I realized my mistake, it was too late. On a short and rather packed […]

Close to 20 years after he first traversed—and fell in love with—Australia’s 225-kilometer-long Larapinta Trail, adventurer Huw Kingston revisits the Northern Territory to see if the trail still holds his gaze. “Bad country, bad country.” These were the only words the old Vietnamese man mustered as we flew across Australia. It was the ‘80s and […]

Hundreds of mountain goats hitch rides on helicopters out of Olympic National Park. See the full post >

We were off the map and nearly out of food and having a blast. See the full post >

A viable philosophy or government propaganda? Bhutan is often praised for measuring its worth by citizens’ happiness alongside its economy, but can a country really calculate happiness—and if so, how? I’m meandering along the world’s friendliest road. Hand-painted boulders remind drivers to “peep peep, don’t sleep,” and, a few hundred meters later, “mountain of pleasure, […]