ϳԹ Magazine, May 2004
Stories
POSTs
A mile beneath the churning Atlantic lay the Central America and in its rotting hold a cache of wealth unimaginable: thousands of priceless gold coins, bags of gold dust, bars of solid gold. A fortune for the taking, as Tommy Thompson saw it. His taking.
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He rescued some of the West's hallowed lands. He became one of the most influential environmental leaders of the century. In the process, he sacrificed friends, family, and anyone who couldn't keep up. Now, alone in the twilight, how does the archdruid make peace with it all?
F E A T U R E S
Variety is crucial to great conditioning. So we canvassed coaches, athletes, and trainers to whip up ten high-impact workouts covering everything from endurance to power to recovery. It’s a plug-and-play menu for top-shelf performance—all you provide is the sweat. PLUS: , and gear to help you train like a pro. By Paul Scott
Steve Galster, the swashbuckling co-founder of WildAid, may have figured out the only way to save the world’s most endangered species: Play the same kind of hardball the animal traffickers do—because in this game, the losers go extinct.
By Natasha Singer
EVEREST 2004
In a spirited pro-con debate—hey, put down that oxygen bottle!—two climbers who have been to the top of the world ask if hype, crowds, and too many boots on the same old routes have tamed the tallest beast.
By Greg Child and Dave Hahn
Stacy Peralta turned skate punks into cult heroes with his 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys. Now he’s back with Riding Giants, a cool homage to big-wave surfing. Is Hollywood ready to anoint him the new Chairman of the Boards?
By Josh McHugh
D E P A R T M E N T S
DISPATCHES
Roiling whitewater, trigger-happy rebels, and hungry crocs have kept expeditions away from Africa’s for decades. This spring, two teams make daring bids to capture historic source-to-sea descents of the 4,000-mile beast. PLUS: versus global warming in The Day After Tomorrow; ; that pick up and move; canoe racing’s ; and more.
Beyond the museums and Brie, Europe is a wild continent packed with adventure hot spots, where you can follow a day of hard play with a vintage Château Margaux. From , France’s alpine-sports hub, to , Spain’s cycling-mad town, we uncover five hamlets with unstoppable spirit and Old World class. PLUS: that will get you far off the beaten path.
At the controls of an ultralight, alone in the open sky, our man rediscovers the age-old dream of . As the creators of Winged Migration proved, there’s magic in pure, simple flight.
Wrist-top computers, digital coaches, MP3 players—the latest will energize any adventure. PLUS: for the fast and stylish; ; and more.