GOING DIRECT

The morning of this year’s Kahtoola Uphill started out windy, gray, and overcast—not ideal conditions for the day of a mountain race. But, by race start, the uphill gods swung things in our favor. The skies cleared and everything settled into place just in time [...]

Canadian adventurer, ultrarunner, and youth expedition non-profit impossible2Possible founder Ray Zahab is no stranger to big adventures. Over the past decade-plus, he’s crossed some of the world’s most unforgiving terrain, including the Sahara, Atacama and Namib Deserts, Baffin Island, Siberia and South Pole—all on foot. [...]

We all have that friend. The one who, the second they cross over into their favorite landscape, they transform. And the first time they connected with that wild and wonderful place a piece of their soul forever changed, and it became part of them. I [...]