Interviews and Profiles

Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Let's just say that you're one of the 300 really committed, perhaps even foolhardy, outdoor types who decide each year to attempt to hike the entire...
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Tribal Medicine in the Amazon Rainforest
You can go home again if you're Randall Green. As the son of missionaries, he spent part of his childhood living in the Amazon rainforest, where he...
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Fighting Malaria with Bednets
To most of us, economists seem like ivory-tower academics who spend their waking hours analyzing national income and employment figures. Yet a ...
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The Gear Junkie
The Gear Junkie: Interview with Stephen Regenold"I like to think that I walk the walk and talk the talk," says Minneapolis-based journalist Stephen...
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Hidden Waterfalls of Shangri-La
Hidden deep inside a remote mountainous stretch of southeastern Tibet, the twisting, snaking Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge offers a wild, untamed brew of...
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The Toughest Footrace on the Planet
With tortured cinematic visions of "Beau Geste" or "Lawrence of Arabia" swirling in their sun-baked heads, a select elite of the world's best...
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