Last September the long-distance cyclist broke the record for cycling around the world. Here he gives an inventory of the kit that sustained him through his most challenging expedition.
Richard Waters on risking his life to chase the story of the Hmong people, persecuted since their fight against communism in the Secret War.
A technique combining 8,000 images per picture. Photographer Levon Biss reveals insects as never seen before.
Great escapes and the fearlessness of flying: A love affair with helicopters. Avaunt meets a distinctly British maverick.
Will Smith is one busy man. Medical Director for the US National Park Service, he is on hand for anything from treating lightning strike victims to dealing with the aftermath of a moose attack.
A philosopher president who did more than any other individual to translate the anarchic avant-garde spirit of ’68 into political reality.
In the third century, thousands of Desert Fathers abandoned the cities on the Nile to seek out the paneremos – or inner desert. William Atkins contemplates the ancient Christians who founded the first monasteries.
Photographer Aleksey Kondratyev on the generations of Kazakh men who brave temperatures that often reach forty degrees below zero in the hope of catching fish beneath the ice.
Stately pleasure domes: the palatial architecture of the underground stations of Tashkent are inspired by everything from Central Asian Emperor Tamburlaine the Great to the Soviet cosmonauts.
A thread that can stop a plane mid-air: Luke Edwards on tech’s nature-inspired future.
