Mardi Gras gets its name from the consumption of fat (in French, “gras”) on the Tuesday (in French, “Mardi”) before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, during which time Christians were supposed to fast ...

Petri Kokkonen is a wilderness guide and entrepreneur based in Lapland. In 2018, Kokkonen traded city life for a remote cabin in the Finnish wilderness. Kokkonen said he never felt truly happy living ...

This fall, Wilderness Watch and other wilderness advocates gathered at the feet of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, in the trees and away from computer screens, to reflect on the 60th anniversary of ...

Join Thanh as he embarks on a life-building journey in the remote mountainous areas of northern Vietnam. This video documents ...

In 1919, a young U.S. Forest Service ranger named Arthur Carhart was sent to high, remote reaches of northwest Colorado to scout land for homes and roads to be built. He came to a clearing, where a ...

I was rushing up a trail in the Gila National Forest to see a wooden sign. Henry Provencio had to get back to his Forest Service office for a meeting, but he knew how much I wanted to see it, so we ...

I read recently of a hunter in my home state of Kentucky who slipped and fell from a short rock face. As he was falling, his boot got hung in the root of a tree, and he was then hanging upside down.

There are certain kinds of trips that even the most intrepid solo traveler can’t pull off on their own. Case in point: a desert drive across one of the most remote and dramatic landscapes on the ...

More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these ...