Climbing the Loneliest Volcano For a Sight Unseen By Modern Humans
Mt. Michael. Photo: Renan Ozturk, National Geographic When you imagine peering into a volcano's open mouth from above, what image comes to mind? ...
Read moreMt. Michael. Photo: Renan Ozturk, National Geographic When you imagine peering into a volcano's open mouth from above, what image comes to mind? ...
Read moreRavine Cyrique, Dominica, 2008 Halfway down the rope ladder, I paused to collect myself. “Are you sure about this?” I asked. But there was no one...
Read moreDear friends, After 14 years (holy smokes!) of Adventure Journal as an online magazine updated multiple times a day, often from my mobile office ...
Read moreIn Girdwood, Alaska, we’ll long remember the snowstorm of Dec. 6, just three months ago. But it won’t be for the school cancellations. We’ll reme...
Read more"OH SHIT," I wrote in my journal. "All the light was just sucked out of the sky. The woods are VERY DARK." It was my first solo backcountry trip, ...
Read moreBeing a beginner sucks. There’s nothing worse. If you’ve managed to survive to adulthood while preserving even the tiniest, most minuscule shred o...
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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Read moreI bought my car, a teenage Subaru with three hubcaps and two working windows, because I knew I could stretch out in the back. I tried it before I ...
Read moreOn a camping trip in southern Utah, my brother, a friend, and I pulled up late one night to a flat, open sandy area just off a road through BLM l...
Read moreStones: We've built pyramids and castles with them and painstakingly cleared them out of farm fields, using them to build low walls for fencing. ...
Read moreI’ve always pictured myself with a partner who wants to explore the world with me, that stereotypical romantic vision of a soulmate with whom to s...
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