Travel Stories Audio & Video

Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire, I happened upon a path...

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

This fabulous account of Sir Ernest Shackelton's epic adventure recreates one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August, 1914, the Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic...

This is the haunting story of 22-year-old Chris McCandless, who walked into the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992 and whose body--along with a camera with five rolls of film, an SOS note, and a cryptic diary written in the back pages of a book about edible plants--was found six months later by a hunter.

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie's extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon…

Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West...

For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport....

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence....

Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes.

In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan—surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers.