An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.

The wild competition to be “worshipped” by Alaska’s most eligible bachelors.

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

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

In 1916, a pair of 29-year-old women, bored with their lives in Upstate New York, took teaching jobs in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains. This is the story of what they found.

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

A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.

“Before I put down my phone, I took a picture of my son. I worried that if I didn’t I would never believe he had existed.”

Exploring the vast underground world of New York City with three of the people who know it best.

“I shared my plans with no one, not my girlfriend, not my parents, not my closest friends. Nobody knew the route I was taking out of town, where I was going, or my new name. If I got caught, it would be by my own mistakes.” A writer’s attempt to disappear for a month with a $5,000 bounty on his head.

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

An update to Into the Wild.

A two-week island experience involving a 70-year-old interloper, his mannequin girlfriend, a couple of dogs and very little else.

Fast cars and bad decisions in a race through Southern Europe known as the “Gumball 3000.”

Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.

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

In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.

On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.

How to drive across America in less than 32 hours and 7 minutes.

On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.

A trip to a pepper-eating contest in remote India.

A college student takes a trip to Greece following a death in the family.

"He bumped his way through the crowd of tourists shopping for postcards and miniature statues of gods with erect penises. Was his dad in an art gallery, picking up a sculpture of Poseidon for the foyer? Was he at a taverna sipping on local wine and feasting on fresh clams? Alex kept marching, out of the town and past the famous windmills. He looked back at Little Venice and its cluster of bars extending out over the water like they were threatening to leap."

The era of personal space travel finally arrives.