Interviews and Profiles

Hiking the 2,169-mile Appalachian Trail Each spring, the Appalachian Trail seductively attracts a small army of hikers whose goal is to trek its 2,169-mile length. But AT love is tough love...

Adventure Warrior and Navy SEAL Don Mann is The Man, a consummate adventure warrior with a lean, muscular physique and ten-thousand-yard athletic stare. Well-known throughout the...

Adventure Racing Couple Adventure athletes Tracyn Thayer and Norm Greenberg, of Bryson City, North Caolina, have an interesting 24/7 marriage. These wilderness enthusiasts...

Super-fit Adventure Athlete With her infectious smile, hair-trigger laugh, and girlish charms, it is easy to imagine that adventure athlete Cathy Sassin is the sweetest and most...

Jordan Desert Cup On September 10, 2001 I was doing the Desert Cup in Jordan because it sounded like a great race. On September 12 I wasn't going. By October 1 shock...

Meet Mr. Fixing Your Feet As an emergency room technician, Californian John Vonhof has seen his fair share of physical trauma over the years, but it's in the greatoutdoors...

Wizard of Whitewater Marc Goddard won't mind if you call him "wet behind the ears." The 35-year-old founder of Bio Bio Expeditions has worked as a whitewater rafting...

Journey to Ladakh "Julley!" It's the warm, musical greeting that visitors will constantly hear in Ladakh, a desolate Himalayan region of high passes situated on the...

Hanging out with the Manatees Florida waters are home to manatees. These ponderous-looking sea mammals, also known as sea cows, communicate with each other through a series of...

Global Athletic Pursuits Adventure athlete Tom Demerly likes things that move in circles, mountains that scrape the sky, desert sands that scorch the feet, and polar cold that...

La Ruta de los Conquistadores La Ruta de los Conquistadores in Costa Rica is the toughest mountain-bike race on the planet (www.adventurerace.com). A three-day stage race of...

Origins of Life in Australia They say that obsession is halfway between love and madness. If so, Richard D. Fisher is precariously balanced on the razor's edge of performance in...