She recently co-authored the National Geographic book "100 Beaches of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Shorelines," and has reported from 17 countries, working on more than 50 travel guidebooks.

To the Navajo and other Indigenous people, these lands served as a seasonal migration path, sacred grounds, and even a playground of sorts. “My cousins and I would come out here and camp and ...

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With California’s Yosemite Valley far beneath him, Alex Honnold free solos— which means climbing without ropes or safety gear—up a crack on the 3,000-foot southwest face of El Capitan.

For decades, Himalayan brown bears have killed livestock and destroyed homes in this rural village. Residents are learning new ways to coexist with their fearsome, but critically endangered neighbors.

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Learn more about the Society's support of Explorers. Bangkok-based author Brook Larmer has written feature stories for National Geographic magazine since 2006.

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"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the secrets of this ghostly phenomenon.

Nearby Mount Rainier National Park also offers the easy 3.5-mile Naches Peak Loop, where the impressive Mount Rainier serves as a picture-perfect backdrop to the sub-alpine flower-filled meadows.