One-Eyed Wiley Post Broke Every Flight Record He Could Find
He flew planes while having only one eye. He set a record for fastest flight across the globe with a navigator, then, two years later, broke his ...
Read moreHe flew planes while having only one eye. He set a record for fastest flight across the globe with a navigator, then, two years later, broke his ...
Read moreIn September 1959 a five-foot whisper of a woman, the French swimwear designer and alpinist Claude Kogan, set out for the 8,188-meter (26,864 ft)...
Read moreIn June 1802, midway through his five-year scientific exploration of Spanish America, Alexander von Humboldt set out to climb Chimborazo, a 20,564...
Read moreThe claim was an affront to Alaska and the frontier spirit. The mere idea that a certain Dr. Frederick Cook—of New York City no less—had climbed t...
Read moreIn 1931, no one had climbed higher than Eric Shipton, a British coffee planter who cut his climbing teeth in Africa and made the first ascent of 7...
Read moreTired of being confused for a man and for the husband of her 20-something daughter she was traveling with throughout Cameroon, a 55-year-old Derv...
Read moreThere's an almost irresistible romance to it. Thor Heyerdahl's theory that the fantastic civilizations and architectural wonders of Central and So...
Read more“We learned so much from that one, silly boy.” Sherry McConkey delivers the hammer line at the close of McConkey, the documentary about the life o...
Read moreThe Pulaski is not an elegant object—half axe, half mattock—it chops and cleaves, it excavates and grubs. It is, above all, a workhorse, just like...
Read moreIt is an interesting thing. For some, their biggest physical accomplishments in life, their grandest adventures, come after only immense physical ...
Read moreBorn in 1908, Louise “Loulou” Boulaz reached her prime in the golden age of Swiss mountaineering, a time and place of abundant opportunity for any...
Read moreParental aspirations are all too often dashed on the shoals of reality, and mine were no different. We would be a camping family from the very beg...
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