The big-wave surfer and world traveler shares his cautionary tales and pro packing tips 

 

How a team of Youtube divers known as Adventures with Purpose went from picking up trash to finding missing persons

By Maggie Gigandet

Learning the potentially life-saving skill of building a “leaf sleeping bag” 
By Kyle Thiermann

Foragers in the Chinese Province of Yunnan collect a whopping 160,000 metric tons of fungi each spring
By Crystal Wilde

Facing a deadly animal alone, at night, in the backcountry By Brent Rose The two animal encounters I’ve always been the most afraid of are bears an...

The big-wave legend reflects on addiction, family, and the wave of a lifetime By Kyle Thiermann When the wave came, at around 3 p.m. on Jan. 8, 202...

Sitting in my windowless office in Midtown Manhattan one day in the mid-1980s, I received a call from a Spanish journalist named Katalina Montero A...

What a Wyoming deer hunt taught me about loneliness, masculinity and the importance of proper footwear
By Kyle Thiermann

A phone-infused trip to Yellowstone made me realize that in capturing the present, I was anything but
By Kyle Thiermann

The thrill of stumbling directly into the heart of the unknown By Tim Cahill I seem to have spent a lot of time lost: I’ve been lost in the jungles...