By Will Grant Originally posted on November 10, 2012. In a remote corner of West Africa, the River Gambia remains one of the last major undammed rivers on the continent. Flowing from a small rivule...
By Will Grant Photographs courtesy Tim Freccia Delivering anything to South Sudan is not easy. Especially not five truckloads of military equipment that has to cover the breadth of equatorial Afric...
by Robert Young Pelton I ask Doug, the Father of the White Monkey, why he calls his operation “Free Burma Rangers.” Like many of Doug’s decisions, it is intuitive and simple. “I made up the...
By Will Grant Death Valley is the largest National Park in the United States. It’s also the hottest (average temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit), the driest (average precipitation: about two in...
By Robert Young Pelton Kawthoolie – The distant sound of steady mortar fire didn’t seem to bother Lt Col Nerdah. Nerdah is the 41-year-old commander of the 6th Brigade and the son of the l...
By Will Grant I met up with the West Coast Survival School in November last year outside Wrightwood, California. The nearby ski area was open, and a light snow had fallen the day and night before I...
For the duration of his 15-month US Army tour in Afghanistan, Jeremiah Ridgeway carried a digital camera and scrap of torn paper with guidelines for submitting photos to National Geographic magazin...
By Will Grant A swarm of nano quadrotors has a menacing presence. The video embedded below is from the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory...
An excerpt from Come Back Alive By Robert Young Pelton The first major lesson in surviving crime is to expect it. Not just in bad neighborhoods or late at night but anytime, anywhere. In the pinbal...
By Will Grant Dave Barr holds two Guinness World Records, has two prosthetic legs, and has ridden a Harley-Davidson motorcycle across every continent on Earth, save Antarctica. His story is ...
