Doug Peacock 19 min read
Here is a crucial distinction between trophy hunters and me: I don’t hunt predators. I wouldn’t shoot a bear for a cool million.
Yvon Chouinard 6 min read
IN MY three-quarters of a century of stupid stunts, I’ve had enough near-death experiences that I’ve accepted the fact that...
Nancy Pfeiffer 31 min read
A calafate seed was growing inside me. The idea was simple: Return to Coyhaique, buy a horse, and head south.
Rick Ridgeway 18 min read
Now, nearly two decades later, I was in the same place with Jonathan’s daughter, who had just turned twenty, and who was with me not on a journey but a pilgrimage.
Michael P. Cohen 11 min read
When I see these stoned counters in other people’s houses, they seem, in their shape and their function, like places of business or places of death.
Michael P. Branch 8 min read
ACTUALLY, HANNAH AND CAROLINE never really asked me to build them a tree house. I came up with that idea myself,...
Christopher Ketcham 5 min read
WHEN I’M IN BOISE I drink with Brian Ertz at the bar in the basement of the Idanha Hotel, where...
Daniel Duane 17 min read
He damned himself as we scurried down the path: “My poor neglected wife,” he said, “to be married to such a delinquent malingerer.”
Dennis Eagan 8 min read
THE CALL OF THE SEA is hard to resist. I became intrigued with the Aleut trade route in 1988, while reading...