The author dives to the wreck of the Mohawk, where his uncle died in 1935.

A profile of Avishek Sengupta, who drowned at the Walk the Plank obstacle during an endurance race last year.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an outfit of professional wildland firefighters, had 20 members. On June 30, 19 of them lost their lives.

“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”

An interview on nature vs. nurture with the author of The Sports Gene: Inside the Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.

Whitewater rafting down a Chilean river with a movie star and the Kennedys.

Embedded with the “hotshots” trying to battle forest fires.

“When I look at Mr. McCreery’s boat… I know that life is wild, dangerous, beautiful.”

A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?

The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.

A portrait of a new nation.

Before he died, Sun Myung Moon, cult father to massive Unification Church (known better as the Moonies), sent 14 Japanese “national messiahs” deep into the Paraguayan jungle to build an utopian “ideal city.” Thirteen years later, the author catches a trading boat down river in search of their hidden town.

How the Bounty, a busted-up replica built in 1960 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty, ended up 100 miles out to sea during the height of Hurricane Sandy.

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.

The story of an avalanche, as told by a survivor.

“From all appearances, this place is still an earthly paradise. There is just one problem, though you could stare at this palm grove for a lifetime and never see it. The soil under our feet, whitish gray in color with flecks of coral, contains a radioactive isotope called cesium 137.”

In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.

Why people keep dying on Mount Everest.

It started as a bluebird New Year’s Day in Mount Rainier National Park. But when a gunman murdered a ranger and then fled back into the park’s frozen backcountry, every climber, skier, and camper became a suspect—and a potential victim.

A profile of the cyclist by his former mechanic and assistant.

An oral history of Burning Man.

Professional daredevils in love.

The rise and fall of an antiquities collector turned grave robber.

When an autistic child goes missing.

In the remote wilderness along northern British Columbia’s Highway 16, at least 18 women have gone missing over the past four decades. Is it the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders?