While in the Ukrainian Army, Vova kept his outdoor pursuits up as best he could. He continued to run, climb, and ski when time permitted. On the day he passed away, Vova had signed up that very ...

Four years ago, Kotyrashov walked across all 17 regions of Kazakhstan, covering around 8,000 kilometers. Later, he traveled from Atyrau through Russia and Georgia to Istanbul. In 2024, he set out from ...

In My Women (Indigo Press, 96pp, £10.99) by Yuliia Iliukha, translated from Ukrainian by Hanna Leliv, the author examines the impact of the war on women, commencing each short chapter with the phrase, ...

She was a Slovak schoolteacher in her mid-twenties when the war found her. Not the kind of finding that happens to soldiers or spies, people who have at least theoretically prepared for danger, but ...

Sauna Aid, a charity supported by many Bay Area saunas, has funded retreats for combat medics, led workshops for refugees and transported saunas to the frontlines in Kharkiv.

The western part of war-torn Ukraine lies in the space between normalcy and reality. More tourists, more construction, more ...

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This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The best travel experiences introduce you to people you’ll never forget. Through these six projects you may meet a seventysomething ...

The best travel experiences introduce you to people you’ll never forget. Through these six projects you may meet a seventysomething freediver fishing in Japanese waters, a former logger in Ecuador who ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant "Y" in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy "red-white mountain" meet. The intersecting features are also home to an ...