The remote beach was empty except for me and my companions. The broad expanse of sea was empty, too and I squinted at the horizon, looking for a human shape. This was two years ago, deep in southern Chile and five of us had just descended the bottom section of the Pascua—a burly, glacier-fed river—by […]
British-Canadian adventurer John Beeden completed his 7,400-mile solo row across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday. He is the first to have rowed across the Pacific, from the Northern to Southern Hemisphere, without stopping. After spending almost six months at sea in his 20-foot boat, Beeden set foot on the Australia mainland at 10 a.m Australian […]
The Awa’awapuhi Trail on the island of Kauai, Hawaii is breathtaking, offering gorgeous views of Kauai’s famed Na Pali coast. But one intrepid hiker and photographer, Scott Sharick, kicked it up a notch by going beyond where the trailhead ends and walking out onto a horrifyingly narrow ridge with a GoPro in hand to capture the moment. Kauai’s beautiful Na Pali coast. Photo […]
Sure, Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon are all breathtaking. There’s no denying that. And everyone should visit them if they have the chance. But there are so many other national parks in the U.S.—59 to be exact—and they’re spread out among 27 states and two territories. Maybe you’re a park fanatic bent on going […]
Half Dome in Yosemite National Park is breathtaking just to look at. Don’t believe me? Take naturalist and Sierra Club co-founder John Muir’s word for it, who was reportedly the ninth person to climb it. He described Half Dome as “the most beautiful and most sublime of all the wonderful Yosemite rocks.” I especially love that […]
On Sunday, ultramarathoner Scott Jurek became the fastest person to finish a supported thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail, completing the 2,189-mile journey in 46 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes. Cheers!!! #EatAndRun #GeorgiaToMaine #EatAndRun pic.twitter.com/kNt20JkfLS — Scott Jurek (@ScottJurek) July 12, 2015 The event began on Springer Mountain in Georgia and finished at the summit […]
Margo Pellegrino, a self-identified and proud stay-at-home mother from New Jersey, is solo-paddling her outrigger canoe 2,000 miles from New York City to New Orleans in an effort to raise awareness of U.S. water pollution problems and the need for policies and public action to clean up our waterways. Margo Pellegrino is solo-paddling her outrigger canoe […]
There are so many amazing places to go in the world that you can’t possibly get to all of them in your lifetime. But I think everyone has that bucket list of places that they have always wanted to go to or things they’ve always wanted to do. Here at EcoWatch, we are all about eco-vacations. […]
Time-lapse videos of nature seem to be all the rage right now. Recently, there’s been one of Yosemite and another one of Yellowstone. Now, there’s one that spans 2,600 miles. Andy Davidhazy hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in five months, taking a selfie every mile. He has put together a time-lapse […]
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