It's time to unveil a secret: My friend of almost 30 years, the explorer and Kobold Watch brand ambassador in chief Sir Ranulph Fiennes has gone missing. Really! For the past two years, Ran has seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. Nobody seems interested in determining his whereabouts. Friends and family have resigned themselves to the fact that they will likely never see the iconic explorer again. So what happened to Sir Ranulph? Why did he go off the radar? Who

Conrad Anker betrays fellow mountaineer; sides with Nirmal Purja Reinhold Messner reacts to the brewing scandal The recent New York Times...

An anonymous tip led to the unraveling of one the world's most famous mountaineers. Read how the social media campaign targeting Nirmal Purja sparked the mountaineering community's #MeToo movement. Published August 13, 2023 UPDATE (1 August 2026): Nirmal Purja's agency reported his death today, following a tragic avalanche that also killed nine other climbers on Broad Peak in Pakistan. UPDATE (31 May 2024): The New York Times today published its first article on Nirmal Purja'

Dr. Richard Fuisz, the retired CIA operative, reached into his jacket pocket and produced a brand new Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera. “Here,...