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

Three teenage boys decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.

Two friends try to make a dream come true.

Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together.

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

The Estonia was carrying 989 passengers when it sank in 30-foot seas on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. More than 850 lost their lives. The ones who survived acted quickly and remained calm.

Six young men set out on a dead-calm sea to seek their fortunes. Suddenly they were hit by the worst gale in a century, and there wasn’t even time to shout. The article that eventually became The Perfect Storm.

Wolf-trapping school in Alaska.

Navigating the sewers of London and summiting the peaks of Paris with a group of urban explorers.

A trip to the Iditarod.

A trip to Scotland and an investigation of enduring belief.

“He stood on edges. He skied edges. He climbed edges.”

Aleksander Doba has spent a great deal of time alone, naked and blistered, aboard a very small boat in the middle of the ocean. It is his favorite thing to do.

Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.

The origins of an explorer.

In 1956, an ocean liner named the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Cape Cod. Half a century later, deep-sea divers—the author included—were still risking their lives to explore it.

The story of the “Barefoot Bandit,” a teenage fugitive on the run.

On the life at sea of Henk De Velde, who has circumnavigated the globe six times.

On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin.

David Roberts spent his life facing death in the mountains. Now he is facing a fatal prognosis.

Meet the smokejumpers of America.

The story of an 86-year-old Norwegian man who tired to circumnavigate the globe, solo, in an engineless sailboat he built himself.

Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.

Thousands of people have waded into New Mexico’s high desert searching for a small chest filled with millions in gold, jewels, and jade. Randy Bilyeu never made it back.

On Easter Sunday, 2008, a boat called the Alaskan Ranger went down in the Bering Sea. Forty-seven people were left to fend for themselves in 32-degree water. Forty-two survived.