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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Birds of Paradise
Communing with the endangered forest and seabirds amid the emerald rainforests and precipitous coastal cliffs on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Sunset
Edited by Bruce Anderson. Photograph by Kamil Bialous.
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Here We Are Now
A return to singer Kurt Cobain’s hometown, Aberdeen, Washington, 20 years after his suicide.
Sunset
Edited by Nino Padova. Photographs by John Clark.
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No One Can Save Us Now But The Saints
On the cusp of the 2014 World Cup, a look the Mexican national soccer team, in all its sorrow and anguish.
2014 ESPN FC World Cup Guide
Edited by Rebecca Nordquist.
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Coach, Remembered
Until he died at age 71, while rowing on a lake in Maine, my college cross country and track coach, Jim Wescott was a mentor and sensei to hundreds of athletes. Here’s an account of what it was like to run for him.
Colby Magazine
Edited by Gerry Boyle.
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The Hero’s March
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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Letter from Abkhazia
A journey through a Russian client state on the Black Sea.
Harper’s Magazine
Edited by Christopher Cox. Photographs by mirzOyan.
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Mongolia Rising
Mongolia strikes it rich on gold and coal.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photograph by Lauren Knapp.
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The Elwha River Runs Free
The Elwha was dammed a hundred years ago. Then in 2011, the feds began tearing down the river’s two dams, to the delight of the Lower Elwha Klallam Indians, who have fished the river for centuries.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photos by Chris Wilson.
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