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In the dusty realm of big-league map collecting, one man cut a darker figure than his milquetoasty colleagues. Armed with an X-Acto knife and an arsenal of fake identities, he systematically ransacked the nation's libraries, hoping in his own peculiar way to dominate the globe.
BEING TELEGENIC IS ALWAYS A PLUS, but it probably won’t help the contestants in Global Extremes: Mount Everest, a new reality-TV series that hits the airwaves in January on the Outdoor Life Network. In the final episode of the series, five climbers with a range of experience will make an…
Mount Everest becomes a prize on TV's Global Extremes. Is this a Good Thing?
Shalane Flanagan, photo courtesy Erik van Leeuwen/flickr If my enthusiasm for tomorrow’s Olympic marathon trials is a bit tempered, it’s because the entertainment specialists at NBC have declined to broadcast the race live. That should strike you as scandalous: these are the Olympic trials, which happen every four years,…
Features Colin O’Brady Wants to Tell You a Story: The explorer’s crossing of Antarctica put him in the spotlight. His skill in presenting himself to audiences hungry for vulnerable heroes will keep him there. —Tim Neville Up Next: How climate change is disrupting wilderness exploration, opening up some places and…
On the 40th anniversary of the much-loved 4-day bluegrass bacchanalia, veteran pickers take a look back on how it all came to be
A new cookbook seeks to make the world’s most restrictive diet palatable
Who would want a $100 million theme park devoted to the belching drama of volcanoes? The French, that's who—if they can ever stop arguing about it.