A lot of contemporary adventure is long on athletics and short on imagination. Is it really exceptional any more to jumar the South Col route on Everest? Or to be the 1,401st person to climb Mount ...

In the frigid Labrador wilderness, the Churchill River plunges over a cliff higher by 79 feet than Niagara Falls, rushes down a series of lesser cataracts on its 200-mile course to the Atlantic Ocean.

In the summer of 1905, a young Canadian widow, Mina Hubbard, set out on an expedition to map the northeastern corner of ...