Picture a scene where hundreds of bergs, some thousands of years old, are floating along the sea in an eye-catching ‘parade’. Andrew Eames heads to Iceberg Alley. So here’s a riddle for the well-traveled … What’s bigger than a multi-story car park, calves ‘growlers’, sinks ships, and weeps gently as it comes sashaying down a […]

Riding waves in Lake Superior in the winter can be like surfing in a giant slushee See the full post >

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 Emily, for a […]

Ice and all its strange and wonderful forms have never been more beautiful See the full post >

Live life according to the first principle of driving a dogsled useful: Hold on tight and don’t let go See the full post >

Scientists are baffled by a seismic wave event they’ve never before seen See the full post >

Last year, Eddie Bauer released an interesting new down jacket, the Evertherm, made not with individual clumps of down, but flat sheets of down in one big piece (they called it Thindown). This means no need for baffles to keep the down in place, which in turn means fewer seams for heat to escape, so […]

Equal parts flesh and architecture, the castellers’ craft is a kind of human carpentry, in which lean-limbed children play an essential role. Jen Rose Smith gets to the heart of this very proud, and very Catalonian tradition. By noon on Saint Ursula day, October 21st, the tiny Catalan city of Valls has mostly shaken off […]

A beautiful glimpse at the process of one of ski photography’s best See the full post >

Vernan Kee is a busy guy. When I finally catch up with him after a bit of back and forth, he’s already chopped, by his count, a million pieces of wood and had started fashioning a weatherproof rooster coop from repurposed pallets. These are just a few of the tasks he hoped to complete before […]