Game For It, a reality television series on the National Geographic Channels International, broadcasts video diaries of amateur filmmakers on extraordinary adventures. The series is produced by the same people who brought Big Brother to European and U.S. television screens. National Geographic News recently spoke with Stephen Marsh, the series producer, about the program.
Students all over the world will have a chance in coming weeks to meet pinnipeds, watch the flights of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and learn the ancient ways of the Chumash culture. The JASON Project's annual expedition will explore California's Channel Islands this year, offering students and teachers an opportunity to conduct field work, participate in scientific experiments, and communicate with scientists in real time, as part of the team or from their own classrooms.
Members of a Colombian paramilitary group released three American citizens, including danger-seeking author Robert Young Pelton, last night. The trio was taken hostage in the Darien province of Panama earlier this week.
Three Americans, including adventure travel writer Robert Young Pelton, were reportedly kidnapped Friday in the Darien Gap region of Panama by a Colombian paramilitary group, according to U.S. Embassy officials in Panama.
Last year, 134 illegal migrants lost their lives while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border along a 261-mile-long (420-kilometer) stretch of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. For the past 12 years, photojournalist and author John Annerino has documented the life-and-death struggle of migrants embarked on this perilous crossing. National Geographic News recently spoke with Annerino about his own 50-mile (80-kilometer) crossing and his perspective on the border problem.
Matthew Henson accompanied Robert E. Peary on numerous Arctic expeditions, most notably on their summit to the North Pole on April 6, 1909. Did Henson, Peary's African American companion, actually reach the summit before Peary? Full text and photo gallery:
The park rangers at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument wear camouflage, carry assault rifles, and chase drug smugglers through the blazing desert. They're at the front lines of a violent border war—and they're losing.
This fall, writer and adventurer Jon Bowermaster embarked on a two-month sea-kayaking expedition through French Polynesia's Tuamotu Archipelago, a barely populated 900-mile-long (1,450-kilometer-long) string of atolls, coral reefs, and desert islands. Navigating by sun and stars, his team lead a Robinson Crusoe existence.
Writer and adventurer Kira Salak endured storms, sickness, and uncertain hospitality as she kayaked nearly 600 miles (966 kilometers) along Mali's Niger River to explore the waterway that serves as the lifeblood of the West African nation. National Geographic News recently spoke with Salak about her expedition.
Snow scientist Ed Adams believes the best way to understand avalanches is to be buried in them. National Geographic Adventure magazine recently spoke with Adams to learn more about his unorthodox research approach and the risks that avalanches pose to backcountry travelers.
The wild Bactrian camel, a two-humped ancestor of domesticated camels, is now critically endangered in its native habitat in the harsh deserts of Northwest China and Mongolia. Many of those that remain inhabit a nature reserve that was, until recently, a Chinese nuclear test site. The Quest for Adventure lecture series,sponsored by Nature Valley, brings great explorers and adventurers to the National Geographic Society. If you missed this year's explorers, read the tale of their adventures.
The death of three Tanzanian porters on Mount Kilimanjaro nearly two months ago has raised concern about the plight of local people hired to accompany climbers scaling the world's big peaks.
Martin Buser is the defending champion and a four-time winner of the Iditarod dog-sled race from Anchorage to Nome. In an interview with National Geographic News, he explained what it takes to succeed in such a grueling sport and what keeps him committed. The Quest for Adventure lecture series, sponsored by Nature Valley, brings great explorers and adventurers to the National Geographic Society. If you missed this year's explorers, read the tale of their adventures.
Swedish adventurer Göran Kropp, 35, fell to his death while climbing a popular route on the Frenchmen Coulee, in central Washington state. Kropp was known for his 7,000-mile bike ride from Sweden to Nepal, when he summited Everest without oxygen, and rode his bicycle back home. This story is reported by National Geographic Adventure magazine.
The first expedition-style, international adventure race in seven years was held in the U.S. this summer. Environmentalists feared the event would do serious damage in Colorado's San Juan Mountains. National Geographic Adventure magazine discusses the event with its organizer, Dan Barger.
