Peter Frick-Wright is an聽国产吃瓜黑料聽contributing editor and host of the聽国产吃瓜黑料 Podcast.聽He has reported from Bosnia, Burma, Burundi, Bolivia, and Nepal. He wrote and hosted the Apple Original podcast聽Missed Fortune聽and produced and edited the award-winning series聽Bundyville, as well as聽Timber Wars, and聽Cat People. His 2017 magazine story聽Cliffhanger鈥攁bout the highest-altitude plane crash of all time鈥攚as anthologized in that year鈥檚聽Best American Travel Writing聽and is being made into a docuseries.
Frick-Wright lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, daughter, and two giant dogs. He spends most of his free time surfing, so you鈥檇 think he鈥檇 be better at it.
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On Thursday, video game developer Jason Rohrer unveiled "Project Skydrop," a treasure hunt in New England featuring a solid gold statue and a bounty of cryptocurrency
When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told鈥攗ntil now.
An affidavit filed as part of an ongoing lawsuit confirms that the treasure was buried inside an iconic American landmark, and now officials are scrambling to keep the exact location secret
The anonymous finder now has a million-dollar headache
The hugely popular Netflix docuseries leaves out crucial facts about America's big-cat industry and the people trying to stop it
Some of the world's most passionate athletes are high pointers, climbers who will do anything to reach the tallest point in every state, county, or whatever other designation they can dream up. A lot of those peaks aren't so tall鈥攍ike Delaware's 447.85-foot Ebright Azimuth鈥攂ut there's plenty of challenge in this quest. Just ask John Mitchler, who had knocked off everything on his dream list except the tallest spot in a remote U.S. territory: Agrihan.
As rescuers worked to save seven climbers, television crews live-streamed everything. The question is: should they?
The actor-singer wants to be that guy who gets everyone outside
Making it through a catastrophic event is just the first step. Presenting five true case studies in survival.
Two people have died in pursuit of Forrest Fenn鈥檚 hidden treasure. New Mexico鈥檚 Chief of Police is pleading with him to call it off. But if you compare it to other outdoor activities, it's not any more dangerous.
On New Year's Day in 1985, Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was carrying 29 passengers and a hell of a lot of contraband when it crashed into the side of a 21,112-foot mountain in Bolivia. For decades conspiracy theories abounded as the wreckage remained inaccessible, the bodies unrecovered, the black box missing. Then two friends from Boston organized an expedition that would blow the case wide open.
For a decade, the African nation of Burundi was home to a unique phenomenon: group jogs involving thousands of people who hit the streets to sing, socialize, and sometimes protest the nation鈥檚 authoritarian president, Pierre Nkurunziza. In March 2014, he banned the activity. As conflicts threaten to boil over鈥攁nd the body count continues to rise鈥攔unners have become both weapons and victims.
Millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a thousand trips when he filled a chest with gold, rubies, and diamonds, and hid it somewhere north of Santa Fe. If one man is going to find it, by god, it鈥檚 an ex-cop from Seattle named Darrell Seyler.