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Don Lee, owner of Alaska Floats & Skis flight school in Talkeetna, Alaska, has felt the ground below him shake from the pounding of thousands of caribou hooves. He’s discovered areas so abundant with blueberry bushes, it was impossible to sit down. He’s looked down at water thick with layers of migrating fish. Lee is […] The post Alaska Flight School Teaches Pilots to...

In 2017, Randall Reeves was 8 months into his first sailing attempt of the “Figure 8 Voyage” — a circumnavigation of the Americas and Antarctica in one season — when he hit a severe storm in the Indian Ocean. Waves were breaking 200’ to 300’ in each direction, and his boat got knocked down so […] The post Sailor Completes Solo Circumnavigation of Americas...

When Todd and Kerri Mozinski left for the Northwest Territories of Canada for a weekslong canoe trip, they told friends and family to expect them back in 40 days. Five days in, sitting awake through the night as an 8’ grizzly bear circled their camp, they realized that perhaps they had misjudged that guidance. Their […] The post Couple Escapes Grizzly Bear on Northwest...