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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”― Mae West “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”― Elbert Hubbard “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as…

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The Mountains-to-Sea Trail begins in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, twisting through forest for 350 miles before flattening out through rural North Carolina and ending, another 650 miles on, at the coast. “I’ll never forget that feeling when I started…

Snowboard Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Stand-Up Paddleboard Mentawai, Indonesia.  Circumnavigate Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. Ski Two Million Vertical Feet in a Year.   Climbing the Karakoram Mountain K2. Siula Grande rises 20,814 feet in the Cordillera Huayhuash range in the…

Surfer Maya Gabeira riding a frigid wave in Yakutat Bay, Alaska. Despite having the most coastline of any state in the U.S., Alaska’s freezing temperatures preclude most people from surfing its ample waves. But for big-wave surfers who can handle…

Atlantic Ocean—Swelling to more than 30 feet across, a school of blue jack mackerel achieves a harmony that belies its purpose: safety from predators. The fish broke apart and reformed off the Azores as dolphins, birds, and sharks pecked away…

Armenia—Beauty is in the beheld eye of a 16-year-old boy in Yerevan. In this highly magnified view of his iris’s surface architecture, the central black pool is the pupil, and his lashes are reflected by the cornea. His eyelids appear…