Loch Torridon. Photograph by Joseph Bowman The Scottish Highlands - located in northern Scotland between the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east - are noted for cool, cloudy, rainy maritime weather; endless, grassy moorlands; brooks of clean, cold water; fresh air, beautiful lochs and, of

High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every...

A view of Grand Canyon's north rim from Skeleton Point. Photographer: Joseph Bowman Grand Canyon, located in northwestern Arizona, is over a mile deep, 18 miles wide in places, and 277 miles long. The Colorado River snakes and crashes through the bottom of the Canyon, flowing from northeast to southwest, eventually emptying into the Gulf of California. In her review of Kevin Fedarko’s book, “A Walk In The Park,” outdoor adventure writer Blair Braverman described the Canyon

Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro stands 19,341 feet above sea level at its highest point, Uhuru Peak, which sits atop Kibo, the highest of...