Is TikTok Motivating People to Get Outdoors?
Something surprising is happening on the video app best known for silly dance moves: users are finding inspiration for adventure. There are some fundamental differences in the way TikTok works that ma...
13 Apr 202234min
Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Wild’ Decade
In the ten years since Cheryl Strayed published her memoir about grief, addiction, and hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, her life has changed dramatically. When the book came out in March 2012, she was ...
30 Mar 202229min
An Agonizing Endurance Race Around a Single City Block
What motivates someone to run more than 3,000 miles around a single city block? Transcendence. Just ask the entrants in the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, which takes place every year ...
23 Mar 202240min
How a Vigilante Botanist Became a Cult Icon
An ex-punk and former train engineer who is self-taught in the sciences, Joey Santore does not fit the mold of the stereotypical botanist. He has lots of tattoos and no college degree and is known for...
16 Mar 202224min
A Professional Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness
On the outside, Drew Petersen seemed like a guy who was living the dream. He is extremely fit with a powder-snow-catching beard, and he’s prone to hoots of joy when skiing down amazing mountains aroun...
9 Mar 202234min
Can Nature Heal Heartbreak?
In recent years, research has demonstrated that spending time in nature can help with everything from anxiety to attention deficit disorder to high blood pressure. Florence Williams knows this as well...
2 Mar 202233min
When Athletes Dare to Dream Like Artists
Professional skier Markus Eder had a fantasy of an impossible descent that would take him across glaciers, through frozen tunnels, into a terrain park, even out of the back of a pickup truck. It made ...
16 Feb 202226min
