Following up on
Part 1
, here are more wildly talented women, the extreme mental and physical obstacles they face—being both athlete and photographer—and their tricks of the trade.
This is a tale of isolation, patience, grit, happiness, pleasure, and uncertainty. It usually takes Silvia Vidal half a year to recover after an expedition. However, after climbing a wall
In a field heavily dominated by men, it takes a few dedicated, badass women to push the limits and influence their industry. Here are tips from some of the most
Being a professional ultra-distance runner is certainly not the planet’s worst job. You may not sign advertising contracts worth millions, but you get to do some serious travelling. This
From being a full-time student to running 170km around Mont Blanc, 22-year-old Oskar Henriksson pushes both mental and physical barriers. Roller skiing around a Swedish student city, he's
Yes, this is a real sport—and yes, it’s kind of insane. The Ice Cross Downhill World Championship is in Ottawa, Canada this weekend (March 3rd-4th) and it will
Two young travellers jumped over wired fences and faced freezing rain as they shot stunning landscapes around Iceland. On their quest to show nature’s beauty, neither lingering tourists nor
Today, Sofie Jonsson and Malin Andersson will face 90km of cold, dark terrain. With a GPS, headlamp and a few PowerBars, they'll set out on Nattvasan, the first
A first-hand account of what it's like to be one of the few women who attend JIM, a mountaineering institute in India’s northernmost frontier, Kashmir
The sharp
How does a young, aspiring skier, became one of the best-known ultra trail runners in the world? This is Nikki’s story, from her early days of skiing in Vermont,
National Geographic Fellow and journalist Paul Salopek has set out on a decade-long mission: a 21,000-mile odyssey to retrace the footsteps of our ancestors' migration. Two years behind
Last November, eight of the world’s strongest whitewater paddlers undertook a mission to make the first stand-up paddle board descent of Africa’s Zambezi River. But they weren’t
