The blinds are drawn in Eric Hert'z Hotel room in downtown Kunming, China, though it's neary noon. The forty-year-old outfitter from New York State badly needs rest. His eyes are…

WAS ON MY WAY TO MY FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH. I hadn't ever been there before and wasn't exactly sure where it was, but I knew, in the way a…

Since 1992, when the Chinese began admitting foreign adventurers to Tibet's "Great Canyon," the chasm's white-water rivers have acquired a sinister reputation. The Yarlung Tsangpo has so far claimed the…

At Pope John Paul || Falls-a torrential spill of roaring brown muck at the bottom of one of the world's deepest canyons-they sat cross legged and prayed for a safe…