The Plot to Kill the Olympics
“Just as the pandemic inspired political and social change the world over, so, during the course of 2020, did many of the bigger Olympic sports experience a quiet remaking.”
The Leg at the Bottom of the Sea
“Sebastian realized he’d found an artificial leg and started laughing. How does someone lose that?”
The First Rule of Bite Club? Talk About It.
“The odds of being attacked by a shark are less than one in 11 million, which makes it nearly impossible to find people to turn to when you become that one. Enter a support group of survivors called the Bite Club—the most exclusive club nobody wants to join.”
Emily Ford Hiked 1,200 Miles in the Dead of Winter
Ford hiked, instead, for many of the same reasons that “lanky white dudes” or anyone else might take to the woods: to pay attention to herself, to have space to think through the life she had led for 28 years and where she wanted it to go.
My Month of Doing 100 Wheelies a Day
“In her quest to master a quintessential cool-kid trick, a writer found the sweet spot at the crossroads of work and play.”
Notes from a Moab Trailer
“I didn’t hear from her. I had flings with other women, but nobody equaled her. Unable to maintain a relationship, I got a dog, a heeler mutt puppy I saw in a cardboard box at the supermarket. I named her Sadie. When Wendy returned a year or so later, she was with a new guy, a fisherman, long hair and a beard, engaged to marry.”
We Had Marlon Brando’s Island Utopia to Ourselves
“Dad liked everything that lived on this island,” his son Teihotu told a filmmaker in 2016. “We did a lot of stargazing on the beach, we sailed on the full moon. A lot of not talking. Just looking. At this place, you have all the answers.”
The Final Descent of Dean Cummings
““This isn’t a tale of savagery,” said former H2O lead guide turned Cummings nemesis Will Spilo. “This is a tale of mental illness.””
After the Crash, They Said I Was Fine. I Wasn’t.
“And now here I was, being pulled from a helicopter, powerless. Exposed. Broken. I had fallen out of the sky in more ways than one that day.”Erin Tierney
I Saw the World on Cruise Ships
“High school didn’t serve up much adventure, so Devin Murphy signed up to do grunt work on expedition ships that sailed to Alaska, Iceland, Antarctica, and other far-flung places. Turned out to be a pretty great idea.”
