Nathan Hurst

A new book celebrates Ten Years of the Tour d'Afrique Bicycle Race and Expedition

Battened Down

In late September, a surveyor found a small dead bat lying on the ground at a 6,500-acre wind farm in Pennsylvania, prompting an indefinite shutdown of night operations. With demand for green energy on the rise, is pulling the plug on a wind farm over one dead bat the right call?

How does ultrarunner Ray Zahab—who became famous for expeditions traversing the harshest terrain on earth—up the ante? By taking high school kids on his next series of trips.

You've chopped wood, but never like this

RAGBRAI, By the Numbers