Up a Pico Island Peak: Trekking for the View from the Top
To see the mountain every day instills the question:
what does down here look like from way up there?
They Call it Gitchigami: a Mother-Son Kayaking Trip on Lake Superior
Story by Liza Finlay, photos by Naomi Finlay
The ribbon of road wends its way north, bobbing and dipping through wild thatches of forest that have been trimmed and tamed to make room for man. Swaths of norther...
My Top 10 Canadian Parks’ Bucket List: an Expat’s Unabashed View
Six months before leaving for Canada from Goa, India, I downloaded a picture of the North American night sky as seen from Alberta’s Lake Louise on my phone.
This was my motivation to do the necessary day-to-day chores that one needs to do if they want to get ...
Where Ecuador’s Waorani Call Home: Survivorman Les Stroud in the Amazon
Story by Les Stroud (Survivorman), Photos by Laura Bombier
My introduction to jungles came through classic Tarzan movies. Those films may have been black and white, but in my imagination, the jungle glowed in ...
Wood Buffalo National Park by Stand-Up Paddleboard: an Outpost Expedition
Wood Buffalo National Park is Canada's largest park, which is saying something. In this Outpost original expedition, we hit the water by paddleboard to explore some awesomely wild country.
Saguenay–Lac Saint Jean: Is This Quebec Kayaking at its Finest?
Story by Paul Auerbach, Photos by Sean French
The Saguenay Fjord was at a nasty, rolling boil, a chaotic mess of black and white and silver foam lacking any discernible pattern. Looking over my shoulder, I could see three-and four-foot waves rolling down the ...
The Fossils of Fundy: Exploring the Ancient Coast of Nova Scotia
In Burncoat Head Park in the Bay of Fundy, it’s late afternoon in early June, the tide is out and I’m standing on the burnished beach. More specifically, I’m studying trees.
Story and Photos by Andrea Grant/Ou...
Africa’s Highest Peak: Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Most Anybody Can Do It!
By Simon Vaughan, Outpost Senior Editor
It's Africa's highest peak and one of the Seven Summits, but reaching the snows of Kilimanjaro doesn't necessitate being a world class mountaineer.
Some people coll...
The Fearsome Theatre of Qoyllur Rit’i: The Andean Snow Star Festival
In Peru’s Valley of the Gods, pilgrims dressed as wild bears whip the air in a ritual dating back to the Incas. Explorer Wade Davis sets out to bear witness.
What I Learned at the Larco in Lima
Story and Photos by Deborah Sanborn
When I walk into the Larco in Lima it’s nothing like I expect—no grand halls hidden from view or camouflaged by the building’s modest exterior.
Instead, I enter a rather s...