The star of the recently finished Marathon des Sables, a grueling ultramarathon through the Sahara Desert, was not any of the professional endurance athletes sweating through nearly 141 miles of running. It was an athlete of a different species entirely. Cactus, a Moroccan dog with a love of running, joined the proceedings at day 2 […]
German pro skier Bene Mayr had a seriously puckering moment last week in Switzerland when an avalanche sloughed off the mountain just below his skis. He rode it out for a moment, then beelined it straight, outrunning total disaster. “I knew this could happen and I had a plan if it would,” he wrote on […]
Freddie Spencer Chapman is little known even in his native England, which is remarkable given how that country lionizes intrepid explorers and resourceful military heroes. Chapman was both. He explored Greenland in the early 1930s and made the first ascent of 7,326-meter Jomolhari in Tibet before spending the majority of the Second World War behind […]
I’m not a huge fan of BioLite’s wood-burning camp stove, the device that put them on the map. Sooty, fussy, and a stove that requires you to constantly remove whatever cooking vessel you are using to add more sticks to the flame—nah, not for me. So when they announced their 330 Headlamp, I was both […]
A cabin designed to look and feel like a tent, with little impact on the land—and it can be booked on the cheap. See the full post >
What does the future of sustainable travel look like? Holly Tuppen heads along to the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards in Seville, Spain, to find out. Last week I sat down with Barack Obama—or at least, I sat in the same room as him—when he addressed the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) summit in Seville. […]
A restored boat, beautiful coastline, and tree-lined coves filled with waves, all in a short film that looks like something right out of the Wes Anderson collection. See the full post >
About two-and-a-half months before the deadline for her inspiring new coffee table book She Explores, Gale Straub’s editor, Rachel Hiles, reached out with a question. She’d been listening to Straub’s podcast (also called She Explores) and was riveted by the story of marathoner Sarah Attar, the first woman to run for Saudi Arabia in the […]
The Instagram and website title is direct and to the point: “Public Lands Hate You.” The Instagram account, which has nearly 30,000 followers, has been around since July, but has, well, blossomed, right along with the super bloom that’s turned big swaths of the Southern California desert into riotous carpets of wildflowers in recent weeks. […]
Recently I completed a solo, self-supported bikepacking ride from Banff National Park, Canada, to Yellowstone National Park. My 825-mile route took 10 days and mostly followed the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route—a series of backcountry gravel and forest service roads. To fuel my training and the trip, I wanted a bar that provided energy, but […]