Dispatches: Kellee Edwards’s Story is a Trip
Kellee Edwards had a dream of getting her own show on the Travel Channel. She also had a plan. As a black woman trying to break into the overwhelmingly white and male world of travel television, she f...
8 Maj 201824min
Dispatches: Alexi Pappas Dreams Like a Crazy and Runs Like One, Too
Distance runner Alexi Pappas is the rare dual-threat of Olympic athlete and movie star. In the 2016 film Tracktown, which she wrote, directed, and plays the lead character in, she set out to capture t...
1 Maj 201822min
Science of Survival: A Very Old Man for a Wolf
One day in 2005 or 2006, a young wolf in Idaho headed west. He swam across the Snake River to Oregon, which was then outside the gray wolf’s range. After he established a territory, he became the most...
24 Apr 201843min
Dispatches: The Woman Who Rides Mountains
Maverick’s, the monster surf break off the Northern California coast, has long been a proving ground for the world’s best big-wave surfers. But the contest held there most years has never included wom...
17 Apr 201830min
Dispatches: Kris Tompkins’s 10-Million-Acre Life
After building Patagonia into an internationally renowned apparel brand, the company’s first CEO, Kris Tompkins, walked away from the job, following her heart to South America. She landed on a small f...
10 Apr 201822min
Science of Survival: “F/V Destination, Do You Copy?”
It was the kind of disaster that wasn’t supposed to happen anymore. On February 11, 2017, the fishing vessel Destination disappeared in the Bering Sea on its way to the crab grounds. The boat went mis...
3 Apr 201840min
Dispatches: Bear Grylls Will Never Give Up
Apparently nobody told Bear Grylls that reality TV stars never have long careers. A dozen years after the cheeky Briton exploded onto American television, the king of survival entertainment is chargin...
20 Mars 201830min
Dispatches: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Creativity
In her acclaimed 2012 memoir, Wild, Cheryl Strayed delivered a fresh take on outdoor writing—a redemption story set on the Pacific Crest Trail. The book spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Se...
6 Mars 20181h 37min
