Interviews and Profiles

Pack-Burro Racing Adventure athlete and ultrarunner Hal Walter, of Westcliffe, Colorado, loves training and racing with Spike, his usually willful and manic-depressive...

The Ice Man Cometh Apart from being one of the world's foremost expeditionary-travel experts on the polar regions, with over 20 trips to Antarctica to his credit, Chuck...

Into Thick Air Rick Wilcox is one of America's great all-around mountain climbers, and in 1991 was among the first four North Americans east of the Mississippi to...

Sailing Around the World in Record Time The Race is the first-ever no-limits, non-stop, no-assistance round the world sailing competition. It is both a sporting event and a cultural...

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...

Mike Sears Interview It was the genetically altered offspring of "Gilligan's Island" and "Lord of The Flies," but only if you were actually stranded on a desert island...

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...

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...

Dog Trainer to the Stars A classic New Yorker magazine cartoon depicts a man laying down on a couch in his shrink's office. The man says, "Doctor, I think I'm a dog." The...