bl u e august + september '01
FEATURES USA
BIKING THE BADLANDS_26 Ride North Dakota, a land where the sage grows high, the water runs scarce and lizards are the only creatures crowding the trail. Text: Hannah McCouch Photos: Chuck Haney
COLOMBIA THE SOUND AND THE FURY _33 Civil war. Cocaine. Corruption. Kidnapping. While the rest of the world stays away from Colombia, Robert Young Pelton goes behind the lines of this decades-long, multiparty civil war to get up close and personal with policemen, military forces and left-wing rebels. Text + Photos: Robert Young Pelton
DO YOU DARE?_38 Robert Young Pelton wanna-be? Dedicated stimulus seeker? Whatever your reasons for travel ing to Colombia, here's where to go and how to travel safely. Text: Ben Cramer
INDIA HOLY NECTAR_ 40 Millions of people gathered at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers last January to bathe during the Maha Kumbha Mela, the world's largest spiritual gathering. Text: Shyamdas Photos: Srinivas Kuruganti
SIBERIA ARCTIC JOURNAL_ 46 Art as journey and journey as art. Oily and Suzi work to capture the gaze of a polar bear on the Arctic ice pack before their preheated paint crystallizes. Text: Oily + Suzi Photos: Greg Williams
USA
RIDING THE WINDS OF CHANGE_52 A look at the kiteboard explosion and how to get into it. Text: Mark Anders Photos: Erik Aeder
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