Anastasia Allison plays violin in the mountains, and started a business selling “pee cloths” for toilet paper-averse hikers. How she got there is inspiring. See the full post >

Following in the footsteps of explorers Fitzroy and Darwin to Argentina’s Atlantic coast, Leon McCarron finds wildlife and wonders aplenty on Rio Santa Cruz. But he also discovers a huge threat to this region’s biodiversity. What was immediately apparent was how little had changed. We stood there—three people and five horses—at the estuary where saltwater […]

Dirty Gourmet is three women—Aimee Trudeau, Emily Nielson, and Mai-Yan Kwan—who came together after a bike tour across Canada. They put together a big variety of camp meals, many of which can be found in their cookbook of the same name, with lots of different cultural and taste influences. This recipe, from Aimee, for a […]

It’s slow. It’s monotonous. It’s wonderful. See the full post >

When a transport plane crashed in the Burmese jungle, Dr. Don Flickinger and a team parachuted in and marched the team to safety after a grueling mountainous trek, becoming the first rescue parachute team in history. See the full post >

Joshua Tree National Park to remain open after an announced closure to deal with Illegal roads and cutting of protected Joshua Trees. Extra maintenance crews will be brought in to protect sensitive park resources. See the full post >

From the ‘Give This Guy a Medal’ department. See the full post >

Read an excerpt from Adam Weymouth’s award-winning, “Kings of the Yukon,” his chronicle of paddling the length of the Yukon River, in search of the mighty Chinook Salmon. See the full post >

There’s more to do under the Tuscan sun than gallery-hop with the masses. Sarah Reid heads outdoors to explore the region’s largely untapped adventure potential. Scuttling through a low, narrow cave passage on my back like a crab missing a few legs, I begin to regret my, er, third glass of Chianti the evening before. […]

Deep in the Black Rock Desert—and arguably even deeper into the Burning man experience—a hardy crew of cancer patients are burying their diagnoses in the dust.  The sun is beating down over one of the most inhospitable places on the planet and I can’t remember the last time I slept. I’m standing beneath a 23-meter-high […]