Adventure

As Jason Haas clears off a tabletop littered with fake fruits and vegetables, piling them into a plastic shopping cart that barely reaches his knees to the sounds of his giggling son shuffling across the kitchen, the mountaintop solitude that defined his life 15 ...

"It was a miracle really, that neither of us were killed,” says Simon Yates. “We were in this really narrow couloir on Makron Chhish, myself and another guy, when just a massive amount of rockfall started coming down...

Hard work. Two words that mean many different things to many different people. But to polar explorer and word traveler Eric Larsen, they sum up a philosophy. A philosophy that not only drove him to both the North and South Poles, but also to the top of Everest — all ...

Back in the Old West, being the first to expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers on kayaks for two and a half months...

If you want to get to know an ultrarunner, it takes more than spending a mile in his shoes. In fact, forget the shoes. Spend miles alongside him everywhere from the rolling asphalt of roads in farm country Nebraska to the foothills he frequents in training runs to ...

“No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark ... no one puts their children in a boat, unless the water...

Flowers are blooming along the sidewalks. Snow on the mountains is melting fast...

What happened to Cory Richards on Mount Everest on April 28 when the climber became ill, and how that will affect the rest of the National Geographic Society’s 2012 expedition to Everest is not yet clear...

A box of photographs has been sitting in my closet for nearly a decade now, waiting to be digitized and organized...

Kirkwood has always been Lake Tahoe’s semi-hidden gem...

Chris Jarnot skis like you’d expect someone who has spent nearly all of his adult life working in the ski industry does: fast, fluid, no bobbles or unnecessary movements, legs together, turns carved. He’s smooth through all types of terrain, and as we lap broken ...

I love to ski. I’m concerned about climate change. And I have an old car with nearly 200,000 miles on it...