Adventure

Is Zion National Park Being Loved to Death?

Is Zion National Park Being Loved to Death?

By Melanie Haiken I’m looking up at the final ascent to Angels Landing in Utah’s Zion National Park, trying to work up my courage to scale the Dr. Seuss–like series of sheer climbs and even sheerer drops, the canyon 1,500 feet below me on either side. My biggest fear isn’t a misstep—though the highly eroded […]

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    5 Reasons to Consider Moving to New Zealand Post-Trump

    5 Reasons to Consider Moving to New Zealand Post-Trump

    On election night, as the electoral map turned increasingly red, a swarm of Americans frantically searched the Internet for ways to flee Donald Trump‘s future presidential reign. So many of us visited Canada’s immigration site that it actually crashed. At the same time, the Guardian reported that the number of hits on New Zealand’s immigration […]

    My Month-Long Voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula

    My Month-Long Voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula

    By Ryan Dolan In August, I embarked on a journey that very few people will ever experience. Leaving the U.S. and a sultry summer behind, I traveled south almost as far as you can go, to the bottom of the world. At the southern tip of Chile, I boarded the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a U.S. […]

    Are Your Ready for the Ultimate Off-Grid Vacation?

    Are Your Ready for the Ultimate Off-Grid Vacation?

    By Wendy Becktold, SIERRA Magazine Have you ever booked a vacation-rental property that promises blissful solitude, only to show up at your mountain hamlet and realize that the online photos left out the traffic-jammed road or the nine other cabins clustered nearby? What to do if, when you want to get away, you really want […]

    Giant Jade Stone Worth $170 Million Unearthed in Burma

    Giant Jade Stone Worth $170 Million Unearthed in Burma

    Miners have unearthed the world’s most valuable chunk of jade stone in Burma, the southeast Asian country also known as Myanmar. Local politician U Tint Soe stand with the jade rock.SWNS.com Worth an estimated $174.6 million, the massive 200-ton stone measures about 14 feet high and 19 feet long, the BBC reported. It’s size is […]

    ​Join the World’s Top Climbers as They Ascend Mount Everest

    ​Join the World’s Top Climbers as They Ascend Mount Everest

    Sports Illustrated is producing the first virtual-reality (VR) documentary series that will let viewers join a team of mountain climbers as they make the perilous ascent to the top of Mount Everest. The series, Capturing Everest, follows four fearless climbers—including Garrett Madison, who summited Everest six times, and Brent Bishop, who summited Everest three times—as […]

    Poland’s New Solar-Powered Bike Path Glows Bright Blue at Night

    Poland’s New Solar-Powered Bike Path Glows Bright Blue at Night

    Poland—home to some of the most bike-friendly cities in the world—unveiled a gorgeous, glowing bike path near Lidzbark Warminski in the Mazury region last week to help nighttime cyclists get from A to B. Poland debuts its first bicycle path that lights up at night.Gazeta Wyborcza screen grab The 100-meter track, created by construction company […]