What makes something an adventure? Does it have to happen far away? Is it always new and big and exciting? Or can you find adventure closer to home, on an ordinary day, surrounded by familiar people ...

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There’s almost nothing better than cracking open a book right where the action takes place—reading Cheryl Strayed’s Wild on the Pacific Crest Trail or Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm beside the ...

For anyone whose New Year’s resolution is to live a more exciting life, these books offer an instructive look at how to find the adventure in even the most everyday occasions. An eventful life doesn’t ...

Caroline Van Hemert stands in front of a packed room at the Banff Centre Mountain Film & Book Festival. Behind her on a screen, trembling iPhone footage shows droves of caribou crossing an Alaskan ...

Heather Hansman is the author of Powder Day: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow, and Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West. She writes about environmental issues and the ...