The personal story of Stacy Allison, the first American woman to climb Mt. Everest, describes her triumphant achievement and discusses her devastating home life with an abusive husband. Reprint.
Describes the events leading up to the Apollo 11 flight that put the first man on the moon and the technological advances that made this and later flights possible.
The light was too dim to get a good shot without using the flash. He turned on his strobe. The high pitched whine drove the sharks into a frenzy. They began to ram the divers with their snouts. It was the closest the divers had ever come to being shark bait. Follow photographer Jeff Rotmans diving team into the shark-infested waters of Cocos Island to discover sharks' secrets, and perhaps to save their lives.
What's got 3,000 tiny teeth and a 4-foot-wide mouth? The whale shark or "the friendliest shark in the sea," according to diver and photographer Jeff Rotman. But friendly or not, these school-bus-size fish can be intimidating as Jeff finds out! Join him on his quest to reveal the quiet mysteries of filter feeders such as the whale shark and basking sharks, and why these giant creatures need our help.