ACT I SCENE I. Iron Gates (Djerdap) national park, Serbia. Small canyon among wooded hills. Morning. Framed by red Permian sandstone, Eric Hyman is...

Early morning finds me driving southeast through spruce forests, mountain meadows, pastures and an occasional potato field, across Mt. Zlatar in western Serbia, heading...

Last weekend I made another dash for the countryside, this time visiting the Taranaki region of western North Island. The region is named for...

There are things you don’t do in the mountains. You don’t go surfing — except that river surfing, or at least stand-up paddleboards, are...

The mountains of southern California are a necessary escape from the heat, smog, and suburbia that can plague the denizens of places like Orange...

“Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest in form…Its massive white dome...

I think we can all readily admit that when summer comes, nature just seems to burst out at the seams. It is this season...

This past Monday I burned one of my many vacation days in order to extend my stay upstate long enough for me to hike...