Features

It’s 2018 and we’re faced with some scary realities our parents and dystopian novels warned us about.

Just a few hours north of Tokyo by Shinkansen (bullet train) await remote mountains and the countryside of Tohoku’s Akita and Iwate prefectures.

Daisuke Sasaki has made a name for himself in the world of big-mountain skiing.

If a picture speaks a thousand words, Yuske Hirota’s life is a novel.

An afternoon storm sends us scuttling under the eaves of a sari shop and clears the road in Besi Sahar. Only a few buses trundle over the uneven stone surface of the road in this mountain town, the starting point for many of Nepal’s most popular treks.

The elusive Okinawa dugong was once a symbol of the ocean. But after years of hunting, pollution and land expansion, the species have gone into hiding. Today a dangerously low number remains in the area.

In a world of evolving sport styles, it’s refreshing to see surfers like Hiroka Yoshikawa embracing the classics.

There’s arguably nowhere more breathtaking than Kamikochi in Japan’s Northern Alps.