Adventure
Diving in to the unclimbed
One look at the Shark’s Fin on India’s Mount Meru and it’s not hard to see how the arrowhead feature could dig into a climber’s mind. But that one look would be only a part of the story of why that particular piece of rock has haunted mountaineer Conrad Anker for two...
Climber Craig DeMartino asks, What rock bottom?
For 11 years, an attitude of refusing to let setbacks and disabilities sit him down on the couch once and for all means that Craig DeMartino is doing more — climbing harder, faster, stronger and smarter — than most people do with twice as many feet as he has...
BIFF 2013: Find, save, copy, paste
Imagine a trove of knowledge as vast and extensive as the famous Library of Alexandria, heralded for its archives of literature from antiquity and destroyed in the first centuries of the Common Era — burned, in the best of the legends about its destruction, in a fire...
God is Italian
God is an Italian. Don’t think so? Here’s proof: The food, the wine and the weather. Want more? Throw mountains into the mix. And not just any mountains, but the massive three-valley complex known as Monterosa Ski. And it’s here, in the isolated villages that dot ...
Video and photos: A travel guide to Dar es Salaam
Heading to Dar es Salaam? Us either. But we’ll indulge in...
Working on a problem
Entering the lobby of the Boulder Theater on the evening of Jan. 25 for the premiere of Uncharted Lines, a new feature film by...
Racing to save bonobos
Canadian-American novelist Deni Béchard, a recent resident of Breckenridge, has written two award-winning books and explored more than 50 countries. When he heard bonobos, our closest living relative alongside chimpanzees, are going extinct, he set out for the Congo ...
The traveler’s mindset
There is a rumor (online, at least) that Europeans scoff at the low number of Americans who hold passports. As the joke goes, Americans are world-fearing, isolated workaholics who would prefer to squeeze in an extra 15 hours of work a week than vacation for five ...
Pedaling to Standing Rock
As resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in North Dakota has grown throughout the year, Scott Mackenzie-Low felt the personal call to join...
Nature’s already cool
A giant picture of a 9-year-old kid is projected onto the east wall of Denver’s flagship REI. He’s wearing a backwards hat, a popped...
It’s not flying, it’s falling with style
Some people jump out of a plane for their birthdays. Others during a midlife crisis...
No man overboard
The issues veterans face are — in some ways — as big and unmanageable as the Colorado River running through Cataract Canyon this spring. At up to 58,000 cubic feet per second, it was flipping so many rafts that passengers in a 12-foot paddleboat just had to expect to...


















