Tim Cahill

One Photographer's Mission to Document Disappearing Cultures

A new book showcases the globe-trotting work of a photographer whose life mission is to document masks from endangered cultures

The Grand Canyon Tried to Kill Me

After a legendary career in adventure writing, Tim Cahill thought his story was over. Thrown from a raft in the Grand Canyon’s Lava Falls, he was trapped underwater and out of air. When he finally reached land, his heart stopped for several minutes. Then he came back—and decided to risk Lava again.

Kuwait is burning. Wish you were here.

On the Trail of Antonio Suárez: The slaughter of turtles on a beach in Mexico threatened to wipe out a species. Then the man behind it all made a mistake.

You have nothing to fear except falling, suffocating, heart failure, personal extinction—and, of course, fear itself

Random thoughts of violence from our man in Argentina

When you're baffled by bad beginnings, stymied by the unteachable, and running from impending doom, you'd better head for the hills

Set loose in the land that invented terrorism ten centuries ago, Tim Cahill finds crumbling castles, legends of hash-smoking hit men, and Iranians who won't stop being nice. You call this the axis of evil?

In the seas off South Africa's Dyer Island, shark mania and risk adventure have combined with a vengeance. For a few bucks, one of a gang of ill-qualified, ill-equipped dive operators will drop you into the most dangerous water on earth. Problem is, no one's promising to get you safely back.

A comic tale, right? Not in Patagonia, where legends die hard.

Adrift in Bali, quacking against the current of time

A Flotilla of Stouthearted Men and Women Confronts Hissing Snakes, Weird Rocks, Flat Water, and the Greatest Mud in the West; or, What I did on My Summer Vacation

Strange Foods, Stranger Times

After being forced to stomach snake-blood cocktails and rooster-head soup, one afflicted traveler discovers that revenge is a dish best served by Norwegians

Times were good in Castle, with full employment and a booming economy. But it only took 72 hours to send prosperity down Main Street and into oblivion.