| | | | |  | | |  | The Hard Way
He was packing for a trek through roughest Afghanistan when the world shook. Sometimes adventure has to wait. [more] | | | | |  | Tenacious E
Last May, the elite climbing community told Erik Weihenmayer he didn'tbelong on Everest. In this exclusive preview of the new afterword to Weihenmayer's book, Touch the Top of the World, the blind mountaineer fires back. [more] | | | | |  | Desert of No Return
Or so China's Taklimakan is called. But our man did make it back andhis photos tell a story of remarkable perseverance in one of the mostremoteand most beautifullandscapes on earth. [more] | | |  | The Call of the Abyss
Armed with cartons of cigarettes and sticks of dynamite, an elite corps of Russian and Ukranian cavers plan to blast its own world record. [more] | | | |
| | Photos: Cameron Lawson, Laura Rauch Collection, Didrik Johnck/Corbis Sygma, Mike Libecki, Alexander Klimchouk |
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