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I’ve written for The New York Times, Outside, Lonely Planet, Playboy, BBC, Wired, Travel + Leisure, and many others. Of the hundreds of articles I’ve published over the years, these are my favorites.

Alenka Artnik before the dive. Nanna Kreutzmann

Adventure & Endurance Sports

She Dived More Than 300 Feet Under the Sea. Can She Go Deeper?

Alenka Artnik of Slovenia recently set a record in free diving. But her race to the bottom may not be over.

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Bone-chilling temperatures, dramatic scenery and road trip interludes make the SCAR Swim a fan favorite in the niche sport of open water swimming.

Adventure & Endurance Sports

An Unexpected Open Water Challenge: 40 Miles Across Arizona

On an 80-degree morning, a group of world-class swimmers stood in their Speedos and swim caps on a pebbly beach east of Phoenix.

Lhakpa Sherpa, a quiet climbing pioneer, works at Whole Foods in West Hartford, Conn.Credit: Stan Godlewski for The New York Times

Adventure & Endurance Sports

The Queen of Everest Trains While Working at Whole Foods

Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 10 times, the most ascents ever by a woman. She has no plans of slowing down.

free diver and shark

Adventure & Endurance Sports

A Free Diver’s Training Partners: Sharks

Competitive free divers aim to go as deep as possible. But fun dives, even extreme ones, have always been intrinsic to the sport. Denis Grosmaire would know.

Oz Pearlman, center, on his way toward breaking the Central Park loops record.

Adventure & Endurance Sports

A Mentalist Sets a Central Park Running Record (Just as He Foresaw)

Oz Pearlman, better known as Oz the Mentalist, ran 19 loops of Central Park — 116 miles — in a single day.

Kristian Blummenfelt participating in a wind tunnel testing session at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Adventure & Endurance Sports

Why Do They Swim-Bike-Run So Fast? Data.

The most advanced science in the triathlon world can be found in Norway, where athletes embrace the data found in heat sensors, oxygen measuring masks and their feces.

From top left: Dawa Tenji Sherpa, Mingma G, Dawa Temba Sherpa and Pem Chiri Sherpa. From bottom left: Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Nirmal Purja and Geljen Sherpa. (Not pictured: Kilu Pemba Sherpa and Sona Sherpa.) Pool photo by Nimsdai

Adventure & Endurance Sports

How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Time

It was a prideful journey for the Nepalese climbers, who historically haven’t received their due.

Photo of Tommy Caldwell barefoot and leaping in a conifer grove, holding an American flag.

The Environment

Why Environmentalists Are Reclaiming Patriotism

Taking care of our planet shouldn’t be a partisan issue. These activist-athletes think the flag might help bridge the divide.

Maya Gabeira on the beach with her surfboard

Adventure & Endurance Sports

The Biggest Wave Surfed This Year

Maya Gabeira didn’t just ride the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman. It was the biggest wave surfed by anyone in the 2019-20 winter season, a first for women in professional surfing.

Surfer on Maroubra Beach in Sydney

Adventure & Endurance Sports

The Coronavirus Swell: Surf’s Up. Stay at Home

There’s also a widening schism between surfers able to get in the ocean and those forbidden from doing so.

Scott Forrester sat on a training mat in a yard

Adventure & Endurance Sports

Fitness Instructors Flock Online to Pump You Up

With widespread stay-at-home orders, they are using social media to stream their workouts. But many trainers are facing financial straits from a lack of paying clientele.

Swimruuners - Some teams, but not all of them, use tethers. Teammates have to stay within 10 meters of each.

Adventure & Endurance Sports

Swimrun, Sweden’s Island-to-Island Race, Comes to America

Tuna Fish Illustration

The Environment

The Poke Paradox

Where culinary bliss meets environmental peril, and how to solve America’s poke problem.

Fallen saguaro cactus near the border wall at Organ Pipe National Monument.

The Environment

The Environmental Threat of Trump’s Wall

Parts of the southern border are ecological wonderlands. The wall threatens 23 endangered and at-risk species.

Colin O’Brady and Louis Rudd are both trying to become the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unsupported. Tamara Merino for The New York Times

Adventure & Endurance Sports

No One Has Ever Crossed Antarctica Unsupported. Two Men Are Trying Right Now.

Illustration by Wenjia Tang

Stripped: The Search for Human Rights in US Women’s Prisons

The US prison system is broken. It sucks up billions of dollars each year and destroys lives.

Thai's needed help finding the lost soccer team

How Divers Found The Thai Soccer Team

In One Of The Most Complex Caves In The World, A Handful Of Divers Raced Against The Clock To Locate The Stranded Team

Tsambagarav Mountain the summer base camp of Shaaimurat Askhabil

Travel + Leisure

The Empty Vessel

Our late model Landcruiser bumped along two wheel tracks toward the largest complex of sand dunes in Mongolia.

Dawna Range, Karen State

Pacific Standard

Touring A Fractured State

The ceremony began before 7 a.m. at the spirit house, built near the base of a massive shade tree.

Natalia Molchanova greatest free diver in history diving

Adventure & Endurance Sports

Free Diver Natalia Molchanova Descends for Fun, Then Vanishes

Natalia Molchanova, widely regarded as the greatest free diver in history, wore her favorite purple wet suit Sunday on a chartered boat off the coast of Formentera, an island near Ibiza.

The Doctor, The Dictator, And The Deadly Mosquito Article artwork

The Doctor, The Dictator, And The Deadly Mosquito

Saving lives in the jungle of death.

Nicholas Mevoli of Brooklyn competing in May in Hondura

Adventure & Endurance Sports

A Deep-water Diver From Brooklyn Dies After Trying For A Record

Nicholas Mevoli of Brooklyn competing in May in Honduras, where he became the first American to free dive to 100 meters.

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