The lifelong, worldwide, high-altitude swimming contest
A never-ending arms race to swim in the highest lakes on Earth. This page is the official contest leaderboard, and an open call to competitors to join in.
USA
The Sagebrush Discotheque
Something special happens every spring in rural America: aggressive, puffed-up grouse hold hormone-fueled ragers in a battle for mates. We had to find them.
Returnee Diaries: Thoughts on Coming Home
On the roles we play at home and abroad, and the unsettling transition from Zambian summer to Michigan winter
Pieces of America: Surreal Alaskan Daze at the Sixmile Whitewater and Bluegrass Festival
A free, unadvertised festival south of Anchorage offers hitchhiking in glorious dirtbag vans, inflatable races on fast whitewater, a Viking burial, and some damn good music