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Best Day Hikes in the Parks - National Geographic
National Geographic editors recommend the 20 legendary day hikes within our most legendary national parks.
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Lost Coast Trail and the King Range Wilderness
These are the personal thoughts of the King Range Wilderness Ranger. The purpose of this site is to get information to you, the potential visitor, so you can better plan your trip.
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Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story. By Jonathan Franklin.
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Last Walk Around Mirror Lake
Boards of Canada (Boom Bip, BOC Remix)
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Thrill-Seeking Hairdresser Leaves Family Behind to See the World and Cut Hair in Extreme Locations
Denis 'Motobarber' Yushin is a young hairdresser currently on a six-year trip around the world. To finance his adventure, Yushin gives people haircuts in extreme locations.
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Ice caves
At Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland
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Norwegian man rides snowmobile on water for 131 miles
A Norwegian daredevil set out to break an unusual world record when he took his snowmobile for a 131-mile trip on the surface of a river. A video posted to YouTube by Jan Helmer Olsen shows daredevil Morten Blien taking his Polaris RMK 800 snowmobile for a four hour drive last year on the waters of the Karasjok and Tana River in Finnmark, Norway. Blien made it a distance of 131.7 miles before his snowmobile suffered...
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The Cowboy Trip
I took a road trip as 3 amigos, drove 4,000 miles through 9 states in 17 days. Here are a few pictures taken along the way.
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The Mystery and Danger of Jacob's Well
The central Texas getaway of Jacob's Well lures daredevils and the heat-stricken.
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10 Months, 45 National Parks, 11 Rules
Drive the speed limit, use paper maps, avoid interstates, and other rules for doing road trips right.
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Rebelling Against the Void
David Roberts, a major figure in modern adventure literature, has explored risk, death, and loss for more than 50 years. Now he’s fighting cancer while producing new writing—including a series of reflections on his disease—that friends and colleagues believe is his best work yet. By Brad Rassler.
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Bones Found 76 Years Ago Could Actually Be Amelia Earhart’s
Researchers believe skeletal remains found in 1940 are “virtually identical” in size ratio to those of the long-lost aviator. By Nina Golgowski.
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Want to Believe
Rich Aucoin
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Unfathomable
Sunken treasure, death-defying adventure, sibling rivalry: How Charles and John Deane invented modern deep-sea diving and saved the British Empire. By James Nestor.
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A Forgotten Adventure With a Telepathic Tribe
New Broadway play revisits a National Geographic photographer’s strange encounter while searching for the source of the Amazon. By Nina Strochlic.
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In the Meantime Between Time
“AL” “AL TURNBULL.” Allan, if you’re my mother or an ex girlfriend. That is my name. Or at least it was before I left.. I still respond to Al. Even Mr. Turnbull, if I’m having my backpack wrapped and taped by a tightly buned, overly enthusiastic airline attendant. Kelsey it was. There’s been many.
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New Orleans man hits halfway mark on Appalachian Trail, blogging past rough terrain, bears, more
When a proud New Orleanian drops everything for a months-long trek along the Appalachian Trail, there's a good chance fellow hikers will come up with a nickname.
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Why Fenn's Deadly Treasure Hunt Should Go On
Two people have died in pursuit of Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure. New Mexico’s Chief of Police is pleading with him to call it off. But how dangerous is it, really? By Peter Frick-Wright. (June 28, 2017)
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No Country For Ye Olde Men
Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic criminal James Dalton. By Christine Ro.
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When Teens Just… Snuck onto Antarctic Expeditions
The true story of one Antarctica-bound boat and several unexpected crew members. By Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
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