Derelictus in Flagrante Daniel Duane 17 min readHe damned himself as we scurried down the path: “My poor neglected wife,” he said, “to be married to such a delinquent malingerer.”Read More
Walking Henry David Thoreau 54 min readI WISH TO SPEAK A WORD for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture...Read More
Winging it in the Russian Far East Doug Peacock 20 min readBEYOND THE WING of the Aeroflot twin-engine plane unfolds a tapestry of green tundra and mottled muskeg, the wetlands sliced...Read More
The Ascent of the Riffelberg Mark Twain 21 min readOUR GUIDES, HIRED ON THE GEMMI, were already at Zermatt when we reached there. So there was nothing to interfere...Read More
That House of Happiness Andy Selters 17 min readIN 2012, I JOURNEYED with several climbing partners to an area of the Karakoram known only on satellite maps, arguably the last...Read More
Life on the Divide John Dittli 10 min read“YOU AREN’T GONNA BUILD NO HOUSE OF STRAW IN MY COUNTY!” my wife Leslie and I were told by a small-town...Read More
Riding into the Heart of Patagonia Nancy Pfeiffer 31 min readA calafate seed was growing inside me. The idea was simple: Return to Coyhaique, buy a horse, and head south.Read More
Ashes into the Shadow of Arrows Brad Rassler 5 min read“There is a Paiute proverb to the effect that no man should attempt the country east of the Sierras until...Read More
Time for a Tree House Michael P. Branch 8 min readACTUALLY, HANNAH AND CAROLINE never really asked me to build them a tree house. I came up with that idea myself,...Read More
The Science of Awe Jake Abrahamson 12 min read“The science of emotion gets really exciting when you get as close to the phenomenon as possible,” Keltner told me.Read More
Climbing to Freedom Dick Dorworth 14 min readThen she recounted a story that put climbing into a stark, perhaps primordial perspective, one that I’d never entertained or needed to entertain.Read More
Like Surfers Gone Alpine Doug Robinson 19 min read“WHAT is alpinism, anyway?” Terry Kearney was starting to rave as we burned through the last of our fuel. It was...Read More
Snowmaking in the Time of Drought Brad Rassler 21 min readThat the Sierra might not be so very nevada one day might have been inconceivable to the Spaniards who named the range.Read More
Hells Canyon Revival CMarie Fuhrman 21 min readAnd always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world....Read More
Into the Gloaming Katie Ives 9 min readThe very word ‘gloaming’ reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses...Read More
It Started With a Pile of Stones John Long 13 min readTHE JOB SOUNDED AGREEABLE: film the Cliff Diving World Championships in Lana’i, Hawaii, for a network sports show. I didn’t...Read More
The Majesty Polarity Brad Rassler 9 min readIN THE LAST DECADE OF THE LAST CENTURY, the videographer, writer and bon vivant Michael Strassman spied a line on a...Read More
The Greening of Alex Honnold Brad Rassler 19 min readGO AHEAD: ASK ALEX HONNOLD about his unprecedented solo ascents, and watch how he reflexively flips the toggle switch to autopilot. He’ll rhapsodize about climbing...Read More