Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
In walking over 9,000 miles along the perimeter of the United States, Rue McKenrick got shot at, got stopped by police 20 times, got attacked by biting ants, had a tree fall on him and battled depression. And he never stopped being an idealist.
Backpacker
Edited by Casey Lyons
Three scientists chronicle the life, death, and the last stand of Grizzly Glacier.
Backpacker
Edited by Casey Lyons
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Walking across deserts, jungles and tundra, Sarah Marquis is rewriting the rules of exploration.
Outside
Edited by Gloria Liu
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My Gilmanton, New Hampshire neighbor has likely been to more remote spots in the White Mountains than any other living hiker.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon
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A deep dive into the culture and magic and pain of three countries that Trump maligned with an obscenity–Haiti, El Salvador, and Liberia.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell
A backcountry ski journey through the minus 30 degree chill of the Arctic, in the company of nine U.S. military men training to face down Vladimir Putin’s Russian warriors.
Ski
Edited by Sam Berman. Photo by Heath Sandall.
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At age 77, long distance hiker George “Billy Goat” Woodard has no fixed address and is forever walking in the wilderness or making his way to the wilderness—on trains, in friends’ cars, and sometimes by hitchhiking.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Bob Stefko.
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At age 5, Christian Thomas Geiger hiked the Appalachian Trail, all 2,180 miles of it, with his mother and stepdad. Was this an act of child abuse?
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Brown W. Cannon III.
Gold Medal winner, Adventure Travel, 2016 Lowell Thomas Awards.
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Searching for the ghost of Russian novelist Mikhail Lermontov (1814-41) in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photographs by Oleg Gritskevich.
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