
Big Wall Beverly Johnson Changed the Calculus of Yosemite Climbing
In 1969, Beverly Johnson left school in the last semester of her geology studies for a more hands-on education in California granite, culminating...
Read moreIn 1969, Beverly Johnson left school in the last semester of her geology studies for a more hands-on education in California granite, culminating...
Read moreIn the early 1970s the major Yosemite climbing proving ground was an area called the Nabisco Wall, a series of vertical cracks that would have be...
Read moreShackleton suffered tremendous adversity and pain and overcame the fear of starvation, freezing, and death. But did he ever willingly subject him...
Read moreWhen Mary Barr was pregnant with her first child, she knew she wanted a woman obstetrician to deliver her baby. But she lived in rural, isolated n...
Read moreEver turn a cup upside down in the bath or a pool and dunk it below the surface? The cup bobs there, buoyed by a pocket of air trapped in the b...
Read moreIn 1854, Abigail Becker married a widower and moved to a small, rugged trapper’s cabin on Long Point, Lake Erie, in very remote Ontario, Canada, ...
Read moreFirst, the indescribable view. Earth, many miles below, twinkling blue, whorls of white and grey clouds. Home is down there somewhere, familiar f...
Read moreIn November 1937, Haldane “Buzz” Holmstrom sat in the sand below Lava Cliff, the last substantial rapid in Grand Canyon. He’d come nearly 1,000...
Read moreRoald Amundsen There's no evidence of this, but surely there must have been a saying among the great polar explorers of the nineteenth and early ...
Read moreThe first time Audrey Sutherland explored the rugged northeast coast of Moloka’i, she swam the 20-mile stretch. Forty-one years old, divorced, a ...
Read moreAs steam and rail shrunk the globe at the turn of the twentieth century, the race was on to claim the last great prizes of exploration—and of the...
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