Himalayas

"You've got to be a little crazy, a little obsessed, to plunge into rivers like these," the narrator says in Expeditions to the Edge: Rampaging River (National Geographic Channel, Nov. 30, 8 p.m.). Indeed. Tibet's...

At the flick of a finger, we travel to sporting events around the globe—and we take it all for granted

The current dearth of cattle drives and Cannonball Run films has profoundly reduced the list of activities in which men travel great distances while risking mortality. Fortunately, in the last dozen or so years...

This has been an uneven year for adventurers seeking challenge in Asia. The major success belonged to Italy's Reinhold Messner, who at 42 stands at the pinnacle of mountaineering. Sixteen years ago Messner set out to...

The spiritual home of golf is perched on a nose of Scotland poking out into the North Sea, a tranquil old town named for the first-century martyr who is shown in the seal at the left. Next week the British Open will...