The Zambezi River, as it flows through Zambia, produces one of the most unique waves on earth. It’s a standing river wave that breaks only when the flow rate is high enough, and though there are other standing river waves around the world that get surfed, none can match the Zambezi’s wave’s muscular quality. A […]
National Geographic is reporting that Jim Reynolds, a 25-year-old member of the Yosemite Search and Rescue team, free soloed a 5,000-foot face on Patagonia’s iconic Cerro Fitz Roy back on March 21. Reynolds climbed the Afanassieff route using no rope and no gear (rated 5.10c), going up and down the route in 15.5 hours, an […]
With the curtain about to rise on the spring Himalayan climbing season, Cory Richards dropped a bombshell, announcing plans to attempt a new route on Everest, in alpine style and without supplemental oxygen. As you’d expect from the National Geographic photographer who Snapchatted his first Everest summit in 2016, the film is gorgeously shot and […]
Researchers just isolated the receptor a mosquito uses to home in on our sweat. Now, we just need to learn how to block it. See the full post >
Culardoch Shieling, as this hut is known, sits unassumingly atop a small rise overlooking a valley cut by a winding stream in the Scottish Highlands, within the Cairngorms. The name is taken from the Scottish Gaelic for “hut,” in fact. Built for private owners by the architecture firm Moxon, Culardoch Shieling is a simple shelter […]
Solo travel is all kinds of liberating—after all, you get to call the shots on every aspect of your trip. But what happens when you get so ill that your decision-making abilities become practically non-existent? It has been one of those glorious travel days. The type that makes you think, ‘Oh yes, I could do […]
She’s five-foot-nothing and sounds like Minnie Mouse with an accent, but no one is pushing whitewater kayaking harder than 27-year-old Nouria Newman. A former world champion with the French kayak team, Newman traded the sheltered world of slalom racing for the freedom of expedition paddling, and promptly became the first woman (and fifth paddler ever) […]
“We never thought it would be explicitly necessary to state that it is illegal to land a helicopter in the middle of the fields and begin hiking off trail,” the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve said in a Facebook post that has since been deleted. “We were wrong.” The super bloom is in full swing […]
Gadd and glaciologist Jason Gulley went deep into a moulin to figure out what meltwater does to glaciers. What they found was astonishing. See the full post >
Growing up in Boulder, Colorado, I accompanied my father as he headed out on work projects. One day, around the time I was 6, he and his business partner received a contract to put in a water line connecting a new reservoir to the city, crossing a vibrant marsh that was home to many species. […]