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Nov 23, 2024 | 
weareexplorers.co | Dan Slater
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Dan Slater
The French president made a big bet, and the far right lost. By Dan SlaterOctober 2024This essay is part of a package on the elections that mattered most in 2024. The most important election to take place in 2024 never had to take place at all. French president Emmanuel Macron shocked the world and panicked his countrymen when he dissolved parliament last June and called for snap national elections.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
australiangeographic.com.au | Dan Slater |Justin Walker
You know those photos you see of kayaks floating in water so clear and calm it looks like they’re suspended in mid-air? It’s hard not to imagine yourself inside such images, which is exactly what I’m doing somewhere off the coast of Tasmania’s Freycinet Peninsula. I’m overcome by a feeling of utter peace and feel myself drifting away … carried toward the sunset on a cloud carriage … pulled by a brace of smiling unicorns … until … SPLAT! I’m slapped in the face by another fistful of the briny deep.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Dan Slater
Down on the East Side, far from the Broadway of Arnold Rothstein’s New York, Lillian Lieben and Antonia Rolnick lived on “Jewish Broadway,” or Grand Street. Back in 1900, the New York Tribune wrote that “Grand Street is Broadway plus Fifth Avenue, only very much more so. Its wide sidewalks show more fashion to the square foot on a Sunday than any other part of the city.” By 1910 the population had multiplied and the neighborhood was more seedy.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
amazon.com | Dan Slater |Maureen Callahan |Emily Nussbaum |Lindsay Powers
Best history books of July 2024, as chosen by the Amazon EditorsNew York always provides a rich playground for historical action, so it’s no surprise two of our Best History Books of July take place in the iconic city. The Amazon Editors also have a juicy read on the Kennedys, one equally eye-opening on math (trust us), and so many more great book recommendations this month. If you enjoy narrative nonfiction, true crime, glamour, and New York history, you’re going to love A Gentleman and a Thief.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
australiangeographic.com.au | Dan Slater |Justin Walker
Here’s a scary fact about icebergs: no, not the one about 85 per cent of them being underwater, although that is hard to comprehend when you see them towering above your insignificant plastic craft like a frozen tsunami. No, the scarier thing is that they can flip completely over without warning, crushing, or sucking under anything that happens to be near them at the time.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
australiangeographic.com.au | Dan Slater |Justin Walker
I’m standing tomorrow out,” declares Gerda, as we wheel our bicycles into the small hotel room, eyes peeled for cleaning staff. The fully laden steeds take up literally half the uncovered floor space. “Don’t you mean ‘sitting it out’?” I ask.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
outsideonline.com | Dan Slater
My headlamp illuminated yet another snow patch, this one close to 30 feet across, looming out of the shadows to completely swallow the trail. Even on a path this narrow, contouring along the side of the valley at night should have been easy, but these intermittent snow fields were killing me. Ollie, my hiking partner, barely slowed, stamping footprints into the crust, but I hesitated.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
backpacker.com | Dan Slater
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. My headlamp illuminated yet another snow patch, this one close to 30 feet across, looming out of the shadows to completely swallow the trail. Even on a path this narrow, contouring along the side of the valley at night should have been easy, but these intermittent snow fields were killing me.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
backpacker.com | Dan Slater
Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. My headlamp illuminated yet another snow patch, this one close to 30 feet across, looming out of the shadows to completely swallow the trail. Even on a path this narrow, contouring along the side of the valley at night should have been easy, but these intermittent snow fields were killing me.
