The story of the 100 mile Barkley Marathons.

What makes it so bad? No trail, for one. A cumulative elevation gain that’s nearly twice the height of Everest.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

What it takes to recover from a near-death brawl with a bear.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.

When a boulder shifts and pins his hand, a climber on a solo trip is forced to do the unthinkable: amputate his own arm. A first-person account of the six-day ordeal, excerpted from Ralston’s Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

A group of childhood friends, two of whom had already climbed Everest, finds tragedy on Mont Blanc.

At age 17, Eustace Conway moved into the North Carolina woods. He hasn’t compromised since.

Fifty-four days after his group’s Everest climb turned tragic, Krakauer first told the story of what had gone wrong.

Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.

When deep sea diver Dave Shaw reached the bottom of Bushman’s Hole, he discovered the body of Deon Dreyer. Though Dreyer had been gone for 10 years, Shaw was determined to return and bring him back.

What does it take to win the World Taxidermy Championships?