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Strength and Power Training

Watch a video about the Tabata Workout Method on Outside Television. I heard about Gym Jones the way you hear about a secret trout stream or an all-night rave through word of mouth and friends of…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4695 words)

Afghanistan: A Short Walk in the Wakhan Corridor

The old Wakhi horseman sucks deeply on his pipe, the opium glowing scarlet in the darkness, and blows smoke in my face. We're lying side by side on pounded wool mats in a cavelike hut in far…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7121 words)

Confluence Hunter: Greg Michaels in Bolivia

Of all the arguments Greg Michaels employs to make his life's work seem less inane, the best may be the one about the millennium. "I would sort of debate with my NASA friends," he says. "I'd talk to…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5127 words)

Travel Rules for Staying Healthy

TRAVEL, AND YOU GET SICK, sooner or later. This truth is universal. I remember reading somewhere that the queen of England, when she leaves her country, always takes with her a certain number of…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4480 words)

The Science of Adventure

IT'S ONE THING, A BEAUTIFUL THING, to watch a falcon swoop off a 2,500-foot cliff. But to watch a man run to the edge and hurl his earthbound body into the void is to feel ill. Primates just aren't…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4197 words)

Report: Cyclone Nargis in Burma

THERE NEVER WAS a man on the ferry to Pakokku, and he didn't say what he said. I didn't meet Western diplomats from three nations. Not for coffee. Not for drinks. Not in the official residence, with…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6301 words)

In Search of Bolivian Dark Chocolate

They called it Cru Sauvage. The impeccable Swiss packaging alluded to its aboriginal provenance, and inside were two bars wrapped in golden foil, 68 percent cacao. I'd paid $13 (plus shipping!) for…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5914 words)
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U.S. Patrol in Afghanistan

DAMIEN KUHN planted a boot in the loose rock, shrugged his shoulders under the awkward weight, and steadied himself on the ever-steeper slope, halfway up a mountainside in the Hindu Kush. Just ahead,…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6628 words)

The Mountain of Mountains

THE AFTERNOON I STUMBLED across the human leg bone at the bottom of K2, it was one of those flawless days you almost never see in the Karakoram. The light was radiant, the wind was calm, and the air…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5538 words)
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