Topher White was visiting a gibbon reserve in Indonesia when, on a hike in the adjacent forest with other volunteers, he heard the distinct buzz of a chainsaw in the distance. Instinctively, the group sprinted toward it. They came upon a man felling an old-growth teak, streaked ...read more
“Imagine being inside a freezer at 30 below zero for a whole week," says Tashi Malik. That’s how she and her twin sister, Nungshi, felt while skiing to the North Pole in 2015. The young women pushed through winds that reached 55 miles per hour. They stayed on constant alert, ...read more
If Vincent Colliard were a smaller-minded person, he’d be a surf bum. That’s what his six-year-old self wanted to be. Growing up in a Paris suburb, Colliard kept a poster of surf legend Kelly Slater on his bedroom wall, and every day he’d stare wistfully at the sunkissed ...read more
