BY: ERIK HUSTON The second that he joined the Skype call, energy filled the entire room. From the moment he opened his mouth, to the time we clicked ‘call end,’ I was wholly captivated. His overwhelming excitement could only be…
Life without Borders
This Canadian couple ditched the 9-to-5 world and became permanent (and well-paid) nomads.
By: JACK M. Their story began seven years ago. Dariece Swift and Nick Wharton had just returned from a mid-winter holiday in sunny Mexico to the cold reality of February in the Canadian prairie province of Alberta. From sunshine and…
NASA wants you, but only if you’ve got it in your blood.
BY: LISA CUMMING As of Dec. 14, 2015 applications for astronauts have opened up. If you are considering becoming an out-of-this-world explorer, here’s how to apply: 1. A large Canadian ‘sorry’ to everyone who doesn’t hold United States citizenship. A…
Becoming a tree planter is a good way to poke holes in your eco-hippie idealism
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Peel eyes open. Scream various profanities at whichever comrade is shaking my tent to wake me up at 5 a.m. De-mummify myself from my ferociously-wrapped sleeping bag. Shed a few tears at the freezing air that pierces…
This 29-year-old converted a school bus into an off-grid, ’70s-style living room on wheels
BY: ALEX BROWN A young Californian from Long Beach has captured the imagination of prospective full-time vagabonds and those looking to pursue a 21st century spinoff of the trademark Chris McCandless dream. His name is Patrick Schmidt, and he’s equipped…
Infamous urban-exploration team shows you how to (illegally) climb Christ the Redeemer (video)
BY: ALEX BROWN Russia produces a strain of urban explorers that North America fails to compete with. They are to urban exploration what Kenya is to distance running. At the forefront of this proud national title stands 21-year-old Vitaliy Raskalov…
This electrician just turned one of Chevy’s classic trucks into the adventurer’s ultimate camper
BY: TREVOR HEWITT A truck rests in a California backyard, a tree growing out its pale blue back, along decades of rust. That’s what Russ Moen saw when he first found what would become one of the most badass personal camper…
Life on the road taught this jewelry maker that life’s purest pleasure is found in simplicity
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Photos via One Heart Design One night while hitchhiking through the middle of Mexico, 15-year-old Walter Munoz was asked by his driver to get out and walk past the immigration officers blocking the road ahead. They would…
This Portland native lives out of an abandoned airplane in the expansive Pacific woods
BY: ALEX BROWN Photos by: John Brecher An old Portland native named Bruce Campbell has changed many people’s thinking on the possibilities of aircraft recycling, living out in the Oregon woods in a converted 727 jetliner. Although it’s still unclear how…
Photos will inspire you to escape your cubicle and ride a wild mustang from Mexico to Canada
BY: JONATHAN MOSS There is an untamed nature that wildly bubbles within all of us. Beneath piles of emails and smog-covered skylines, there exists an untainted self that instinctually yearns to return to wide-open spaces. There is a universal…
This guy climbed a 75-metre high tree and caught the spectacular view in 360-degree video
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Pemberton, West Australia is home to the Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree, originally used as a fire lookout. Now, the giant tree serves as one of three lookouts that remain climbable in the Warren National Park – if…
This Christmas you can nominate someone to win a fully functioning tiny house
BY: JESSICA BEUKER For five years Micah and Whitney Slade, along with their kids Rhett, Charlie, Kael and Taj, have made a Christmas card video and sent it out to their friends and family via YouTube. The videos often…
This off-grid town banned WiFi and cellphones to live in the mountains and look for aliens
Every day Jay Lockman climbs 450 feet to the top of the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope, a massive web of steel that overlooks the high green moguls of the West Virginia mountain range. He’s the principal scientist for…
Couple builds beautiful glass greenhouse around entire home for all-year growing
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Cold winter months in Sweden, which sit at an average of minus two degrees Celsius (27 degrees Fahrenheit), come with a few issues. So, realizing that the cold weather cost them money to heat their home, and…
This glass couple’s hotel hangs on a cliff face 400 ft. above Peru’s Sacred Valley
BY: DANIEL WATERBOURNE While the breakfast buffets, chlorine pools and tourist tan lines of all-inclusive resorts hugging the equator might be the ideal couple’s getaway for some—there are those who are drawn to vacations that are a little less conventional.…
Starting in 2017, this Colorado county will offer marijuana-funded scholarships to students
BY: TREVOR HEWITT Though they can’t legally smoke the stuff, they can still use it as an incentive to get high – grades, that is. Starting in 2017, a Colorado county will offer residents college scholarships that are funded…
How Alex Honnold lives out of a solar powered van with a kitchen and storage space (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the rock-climbing world, Alex Honnold has rockstar status from countless free-solo ascents of American landmark walls, including Half Dome, El Capitan and the Castleton Tower. This is to say, he’s climbed thousands of metres of vertical…
Young couple lives in a solar-powered off-grid yurt in the mountains of Montana (video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the frozen northern tip of Montana, Sean Busby can be found most days chopping firewood or casting line from his fly-fishing rod deep in the woods and up to his knees in the cold running stream…
Travel is easier than ever for millennials but what that means is harder to decipher
BY: REGAN MCNEILL How many people have heard about their parents’ backpacking through Europe and accidentally eating cow brains for dinner? To my surprise these things actually happened to my mother the nurse (she is cooler than I thought). But…
Watch breathtaking footage of a slackliner conquer the 500 metre “walk of death”
BY: JOHNATHAN MOSS Balanced between life and death, French daredevil, Théo Sanson finds serenity while staring at the jagged rock face of the desert floor that extends hundreds of metres below him. As the sun leans upon his back and his…