The sound of silence isn’t easy to find, but city-dweller Richard Mellor heads to England’s supposed most tranquil spot for a dose of wilderness. Is it really as quiet as they say? I sit beside Channelbush Sike, a boulder-strewn stream of transparent water, and listen. The current rushes down a couple of chutes. A bee […]
Baseball isn’t something you readily associate with Vietnam. But a new generation of young, Hanoi-based baseball fanatics has set up the region’s very first team. Their head coach? YouTube. Photographer Travis Hodges heads to the game. It’s game day for the Hanoi Fishanu baseball team. I venture into the city in search of a ride […]
A funny take on 30-pound bikes weighed down with 30 pounds of gear. Anyone have an extra bungie? See the full post >
It has been a bittersweet couple of weeks in the climbing world, specifically in the speed-climbing world. Alex Honnold and See the full post >
Popular conservation program’s funding and possible existence under budget-cutting threat. See the full post >
Payback for political disagreements is widespread, investigation shows. See the full post >
Just a beautiful short film celebrating getting away from everything. See the full post >
She pioneered and argued for “manless” climbing in a hugely influential 1934 essay. See the full post >
Each Southern Hemisphere winter, a natural phenomenon occurs off a remote stretch of the South Australian coast that will leave you blushing, finds Sarah Reid. Shimmering like a hyperactive rainbow, the male cuttlefish suddenly makes his move, snaking an orangey tentacle around the female’s head and drawing it towards his own mouth. It looks like […]
Thinking about skiing, missing skiing, ready for winter. See the full post >