This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Take “Santa Claus ... attended workshops on makeup and marketing, beard care and Santa ethics.

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Every summer ... whose identical beards reach down to their chests, have driven more than three million miles together ...

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Miller brothers looked more like prospectors than paleobotanists. Their beards were caked with dirt; goggles kept ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula ... In their heavy beards and black garb—worn to signify their death to the world—the monks ...

15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. One last chance ... chapped cheeks and a scraggly, reddish beard, heads out every day past the nine graves ...

This story appears in the June 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The man who led a ... brush hair and an unruly tobacco-stained beard that splayed onto his chest. The right sleeve ...

This story appears in the October 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The men gather at ... a burly former boxer with a salt-and-pepper beard, leads the men—and one recalcitrant bull ...