To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we have published the original versions of the 11 stories revisited in our June 2012 issue, including David Roberts' profile of climber Jeff Lowe, which ran in our debut issue, and Matthew Power's "Lost in the Amazon" (June 2009), which recounts Ed Stafford's journey to become the first person to travel the length of the Amazon River on foot.
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In our 20th anniversary issue, on sale now: Josh Eells profiles Lance Armstrong; Tom Brokaw interviews Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard; Jonathan Miles rides shotgun for the Dakar Rally; and Paul Solotaroff learns about the degenerative condition plaguing the best American climber of all time.
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The chicken farmer turned hot-rodder was one of the most recognized names in automotive history.
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Two years ago, at age 30, Dan McLaughlin quit his job as a commercial photographer in Portland, Oregon, hoping to become a pro golfer — despite never having played a full round of golf in his life. Since then he’s been learning to play, six hours a day, six days a week. His goal: cracking the PGA Tour by 2016.
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The majority of major-league hurlers are pitch-counting technicians who think six-innings is a full day's work. Then there's Justin Verlander.
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Since cashing out of Microsoft, software genius Nathan Myhrvold has lived a nerd fantasy — digging up T. rexes, dabbling in Formula One, and creating a cooking bible only a mad scientist could love.
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After more than 30 years in office, the cunning congressman from Massachusetts is retiring. And still telling it like it is.
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For three decades, Conrad Anker quietly obsessed about climbing Shark's Fin, a slab of virgin Himalayan rock that had vexed him twice before. Last fall, his team set out again, battling ice and mental breakdown to get to the top.
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Too often, Tuesday night dinner feels like surrender, as if the best you can do is assemble a reasonably healthy meal that doesn’t arrive at the doorstep in a Styrofoam box. So we asked Michael Tusk, one of our favorite chefs, to concoct a dinner that aims to do more than merely suffice.
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"Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan" chronicles the novelist's high times and dark days.
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