The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See
Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.
Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal May 2012 25min Permalink
Three teenage boys decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2011 35min Permalink
A trip to India for total silence.
Michael Finkel Men's Journal Aug 2012 20min Permalink
Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history.
Michael Finkel GQ Feb 2019 35min Permalink
We know more about sleep than we ever have and we’ve never been worse at it.
Michael Finkel National Geographic Jul 2018 30min Permalink
Christian Longo brutally murdered his familyand then posed in Mexico as a New York Times reporter named Michael Finkel. From death row, Longo asked the real Finkel to attend his execution.
Michael Finkel Esquire Dec 2009 1h Permalink
At the age of 20, Christopher Knight parked his car on a remote trail in Maine and walked away. He had no plan. He had no tools. And he survived alone for 27 years.
Michael Finkel The Guardian Mar 2017 15min Permalink
Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.
Michael Finkel GQ Aug 2014 30min Permalink
An Aboriginal community’s attempt to maintain a 50,000-year-old way of life.
Michael Finkel National Geographic May 2013 20min Permalink
Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of Earth’s most remote places, a pocket of land 14,000 feet high where the currency is sheep, the dream is a road, and many will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing a tree.
Michael Finkel National Geographic Feb 2013 15min Permalink
George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.
Michael Finkel GQ May 2012 35min Permalink