New: A Giant Drone That Carries One Passenger Jilli Cluff 12/11/2021 Adventure Travel Imagine a special type of drone, not a drone that's rigged for courier services or adventure photography, but one that's a vehicle for real-...
Great Explorers: the Inuit Shaman Qitdlarssuaq Jerry Kobalenko 12/11/2021 Arctic Explorers The Qitdlarssuaq story has not been made into a movie yet, but it should be. It has all the ingredients of epic drama: murder, magic, rivalr...
Everest: Marc Batard Seeks Safer Route Past Khumbu Icefall Angela Benavides 11/11/2021 8000ers Everest Sajid Sadpara will help the 69-year-old Frenchman on his quest to find a better way. In 1988, Marc Batard broke a speed record by climbin...
Best-Preserved Ancient Skis Turn Up — Where Else? — in Norway Jilli Cluff 11/11/2021 Archaeology Skiing On September 20 of this year, a field archaeologist spotted what looked like a wooden plank on Mount Digervarden in southern Norway. Since t...
Antarctic Kite-Ski Crossing Ready to Begin Martin Walsh 11/11/2021 Antarctic South Pole The coronavirus wiped out the 2020-2021 Antarctic season and it looked touch-and-go whether this year’s season would go ahead. Fortunately, ...
The Hermit of Treig: Man Lives 40 Years Without Electricity or Running Water…in Scotland Jilli Cluff 10/11/2021 Survival Metaphorically and literally, Ken Smith is a man who lives on the fringes. For the past four decades, the 74-year-old has hewn an unconventi...
Angela Madsen’s Boat Washes Up on Pacific Island Rebecca McPhee 10/11/2021 Oceans Rowing/canoeing The boat of U.S. ocean rower Angela Madsen has washed up in the Marshall Islands, 16 months after her fatal attempt to row alone from Califo...
Luka Strazar on the Joy of Climbing Chobutse Angela Benavides 10/11/2021 Alpine style Himalaya Nepal What makes a climber choose one peak over another, especially in a sea of mountains like the Himalaya? In the case of the top Slovenian t...
Nearly 300 Volunteers Rescue Stranded UK Caver Jilli Cluff 10/11/2021 Caving In the early afternoon of November 6, 2021, 38-year-old George Linnane of Bristol took a 15m fall in Wales's Ogof Ffynnon Ddu cave system. H...
Italians Summit Kongde Ri, Tengkampoche Angela Benavides 09/11/2021 Alpine style Himalaya Lost in the recent squabble over Tengkampoche, between the pair who previously attempted the NE Pillar and the pair who recently completed i...
Annapurna III: Ukrainians Safely Down Angela Benavides 09/11/2021 Annapurna Himalaya The Ukrainian team that completed the first climb of Annapurna III's Southeast Ridge is safely down after a difficult three-day descent. Aft...
Antarctic Triathlon: 5,300km from Patagonia to the South Pole Rebecca McPhee 09/11/2021 Antarctic Rowing/canoeing Skiing South Pole On November 20, Antonio de la Rosa will begin what promises to be the most unusual expedition of the Antarctic season. He will row 1,000k...
Best Satellite Phones of 2021-2022 Morgan Tilton 09/11/2021 Gear Satellite phones provide voice-to-voice communication in the most remote corners of the planet for safety, peace of mind, and emergency resp...
Canadian Expedition Finishes a Near North-South Traverse Martin Walsh 08/11/2021 Adventure Travel Arctic After nearly eight months and 7,600km, Guillaume Moreau and Nicolas Roulx have completed their epic multi-discipline expedition from norther...
