In this interview, filmmaker and Everest Peace Project creator Lance Trumbull discusses reaching the summit of Everest with a team of Palestinian and Israeli climbers, the challenges of making a documentary, and what it takes "to help sew the seeds of peace and reconciliation."

Through the study of Butoh, the Japanese "Dance of Darkness," a young traveler faces the fundamental question: am I faking it?

An American teaching High School in Japan discovers that baseball, with all its similarities on the field, holds an entirely different place in the lives of young athletes in Japan.

Tim Patterson reveals a little-known but growing community of farmers, builders, and visionaries at the edge of a National Park in Thailand's rural North.

On an extremely remote island off the coast of Cambodia, a pair of young adventurers' notions of isolation, danger, and escape from the familiar, are challenged by the discovery of a modern vacation home.

A young traveler in Saigon gets an unexpected glimpse through time and history and the horrors of war all through a brief interaction with a local cyclo rider.

An honorable mention in the 2007 Traverse contest: an American woman living in Beijing begins dating a Chinese clown who arrives at every date with his make-up still on. She must figure out how to see him as he really is, and in doing so, figure out if their relationship is real.

"The only signs of modernity are mini-buses shuttling shalwar-clad passengers between towns, rusting Soviet tanks, the odd generator and cellular phone," writes Zachary Johnston in this concise history of modern Afghanistan.

"Of course, Kerouac never actually crossed the Pacific to see Hokkaido for himself, and if he had, he would have found the sort of place he loved - frontier country, split by open highways and empty rails, with brown bears in the mountains and salmon rushing up the river-mouths," Tim Patterson writes in this colorful guide to Teuri Island, Hokkaido, Japan.

Peter Fong takes us fishing in Borneo, where he notes, "every household owns at least one boat, and the resident cats and chickens might pass their whole lives without ever touching topsoil."

Tim Patterson and Ryan Libre spend a snowbound night in hut buried up to its stovepipe in the mountains of Hokkaido, Japan.

In this profile of the Salaam Balaak Trust, Jenny Williams sheds light on one of the few organizations helping the street children of Delhi.

A young traveler takes the road to Leh, India, over one of the highest drivable passes in the world.

"The popularity of boat engines has eradicated the colorful sails that once dotted the seascape," writes photojournalist Carl Kuntze about Sitangkai, a little-known part of the Tawi-Tawi group in the Philippines.