Buzz Holmstrom, First to Solo Row the Grand Canyon
In November 1937, Haldane “Buzz” Holmstrom sat in the sand below Lava Cliff, the last substantial rapid in Grand Canyon. He’d come nearly 1,000...
Read moreIn November 1937, Haldane “Buzz” Holmstrom sat in the sand below Lava Cliff, the last substantial rapid in Grand Canyon. He’d come nearly 1,000...
Read moreRoald Amundsen There's no evidence of this, but surely there must have been a saying among the great polar explorers of the nineteenth and early ...
Read moreThe first time Audrey Sutherland explored the rugged northeast coast of Moloka’i, she swam the 20-mile stretch. Forty-one years old, divorced, a ...
Read moreAs steam and rail shrunk the globe at the turn of the twentieth century, the race was on to claim the last great prizes of exploration—and of the...
Read moreTragedy seems easier to digest the further away it is in the past, but this doesn't seem to be the case with the drowning death of surfing legend...
Read moreChris Turney is the author of 1912: The Year The World Discovered Antarctica, a book about the five major expeditions converging on the southernmo...
Read moreSwiss alpinist Marcel Rémy celebrated his 99th birthday last February at his local rock gym, climbing to the 50-foot rafters before descending for...
Read moreThe first thing you should know about Poppa Neutrino is that he once sailed from Maine to Ireland on a raft he built out of trash. This is, by its...
Read moreHe flew planes while having only one eye. He set a record for fastest flight across the globe with a navigator, then, two years later, broke his ...
Read moreIn September 1959 a five-foot whisper of a woman, the French swimwear designer and alpinist Claude Kogan, set out for the 8,188-meter (26,864 ft)...
Read moreIn June 1802, midway through his five-year scientific exploration of Spanish America, Alexander von Humboldt set out to climb Chimborazo, a 20,564...
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