Winter Weather

Mere specks on Alaska's frigid Bering Sea coast, the 29-year-old author and her dog team (lower left) mushed toward Nome, where she became the first woman to win the rugged 1,172-mile Iditarod race

Eric Perlman, 35, of Truckee, Calif., who has been scaling mountains since he was 16, set out in June 1985 to do something no American had done: to climb in a single season the six classic north faces of Europe—Cima...

Traversing the Grand Canyon in midwinter is no picnic, the author found, especially with a go-go governor as guide

Donald Curry cut down a gutsy Colin Jones to retain his crown

I stuck my rink on a warm morning in the false spring of this past February. After the children left for school, I took a 16-inch knife sharpening steel, walked to the southeast corner of the 54-by-32-foot skating...