James Dorsey travels among the Dogon, ancient but little-known people whose villages are perfectly camouflaged in the red cliffs of Mali, West Africa.

An insightful and at times hilarious look at a typical adventure tourism experience in an atypical place in Guatemala, and how, when it comes to people climbing volcanoes, volcanoes will always have the final say.

Kidnapping, surfing, plane accidents, and people fishing for cocaine: pretty much business as usual in Richard McColl's out of bounds adventure along the Pacific Coast of Colombia.

In this interview with writer, professor, community builder, kayaker, and self-professed “post-hippie Deep South anarchist,” John Lane shows Matador writer Julie Schwietert around the textile mill being converted into an environmental studies center, and talks about the relationships between people and place, between traveling and settling, and how to form community. Click on the audio links to hear clips from their walk along Lawson’s Fork Creek, and read on for a conversation about Lane’s book and writing about place.

Excerpted from her thesis Heroes or Hellions: How Americans are Perceived Abroad, this chapter by Erin Granat examines the dynamics of a "miniature United Nations" that forms when a random group of people travels together in Australia.

In this profile of wingsuit flying, Sandra Konta speaks with Birdmen Jari Kuosma, Nick Rugai, and Robert Pecnik. "What is old news to the skydiving community," she writes, "the mainstream public is just beginning to digest: safe human flight is now a reality."

"He doesn’t answer our question right away, sizing us up for a time before asking the receptionist to dig out some maps of the Popo Agie Wilderness. The map he chooses is hand-drawn, carefully creased and slightly yellow with age," writes Tim Patterson in this soulful and sharp-eyed traverse of the Wyoming highcountry.

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."

"Historians believe that khoomei was birthed from a desire to speak the language of Nature, translating the earthly sounds of a whistling wind or gurgling brook into human tones," writes Angie Teater, in this personal account of a khoomei concert in Tuva.