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3 weeks ago | 
sierraclub.org | Pete McBride |Nick Paumgarten |Kevin Fedarko
As Lake Powell has dwindled, new sights have emerged. This includes Gregory Arch, which has been mostly submerged for the last 50 years. In 2006, veteran photographer and filmmaker Pete McBride embarked on a two-decade journey, starting in his home state of Colorado, to document the effects of a disappearing Colorado River.
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3 weeks ago | 
sierraclub.org | Pete McBride |Nick Paumgarten |Kevin Fedarko
A photographer embarks on a journey to rediscover the river that helped make the West
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3 weeks ago | 
sierraclub.org | Pete McBride |Nick Paumgarten |Kevin Fedarko
A photographer embarks on a journey to rediscover the river that helped make the West
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2 months ago | 
airmail.news | Kevin Fedarko
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy Late in the evening on June 3, 1928, a young Soviet farmer was monitoring broadcasts from remote parts of the world on a wireless radio set in his cottage on the northwest coast of Russia when he heard something unusual.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
americanlibrariesmagazine.org | Kaveh Akbar |Percival L. Everett |Jiaming Tang |Kevin Fedarko
The American Library Association (ALA) announced on November 12 the six books shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Established in 2012, the awards honor the previous year’s best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the US.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Kevin Fedarko
By Barry Lopez (1986)1. Barry Lopez’s nonfiction masterpiece “Arctic Dreams” is a monument to the power of writing based on humility, attentiveness and a reverence for the beauty of untrammeled nature. Part of Lopez’s gift was his flair for distilling the essence of a landscape—in this case the unremitting vastness, implacable austerity and moments of tenderness embodied by the far north—into something as fierce and vulnerable as the expression in the eyes of a horned lark.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
news.prairiepublic.org | Kevin Fedarko
Kevin Fedarko discusses his life-changing, 750-mile trek through the Grand Canyon. His book, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon (Scribner; May 28, 2024), narrates the odyssey he and his best friend undertook to traverse the entire length of the Grand Canyon. This feat, considered by the handful of experts who have completed it as "the toughest hike in the world," highlights the challenges and beauty of the journey.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Kevin Fedarko
Listeners can sense the excitement, awe, and frustration in the author's chronicle of his "walk" through the Grand Canyon. Kevin Fedarko does double duty as author and narrator, and his narration adds notes of authenticity to the production. His voice is clear and pleasant, and he changes things up to fit particular passages. For instance, he increases his pace slightly as he recounts navigating the Colorado River in a raft. And he slows it down during poetic descriptions of his surroundings.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Kevin Fedarko
The climate change debate has been felt in the most remote parts of the world and those closest to us. Although A WALK IN THE PARK is not a memoir that declares itself a story about our shifting natural environments, it sort of is. Without meaning to do so, curling itself into a narrative that revolves around a most insane and dangerous journey, it brings to light so many of the concerns and new directions in which the natural world is taking everyone, particularly bold explorers.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
exbulletin.com | Kevin Fedarko
Could you blame him? She's marathon swimming and now celebrity on the red carpet had just given a fascinating speech to a packed house at the Denver Art Museum last Sunday, June 1, during the two-day OutsideFestival. After the speech, Nyad stood in the midday Colorado sun in front of a long line of autograph seekers, all holding copies of her 2016 memoir. Find a way. Nyad spoke to each person, imparting wisdom on overcoming tanning with glasses or facing fear, hugged them, then signed the post.
