A barren stretch of shore in Namibia maintains a reputation as one of the harshest places on earth…and it has an ominous name to match. The Skeleton Coast owes its appellation to the whalebones that ...

Portuguese sailors called it the “Gates of Hell.” Namibia’s Bushmen speak of the land God made in anger. From the air, the bleak shoreline of the Skeleton Coast looks wonderful – a deep green sea, ...

Griddle-hot deserts, time-forsaken ghost towns, prismatic canyons and endless ribbons of lonely highway: There’s nothing quite like a road trip across the Southwest to get the gasoline pumping in an ...

Portuguese sailors nicknamed the Skeleton Coast the "Gates of Hell." Accurate at the time, given the number of shipwrecks. The remains of survivors are mixed up with the last remnants of the area's ...

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Stokelore is a monthly series, which features some of the best writers in the sport celebrating and analyzing various aspects of surf culture, history and travel. Dave Parmenter’s piece below, which ...

This wildly beautiful but dangerous shore, a third of Namibia's coastline, stretches from the Ugab River in the south to the Kunene River, the border with Angola, in the north. The Portuguese ...

If anywhere in our over-explored world can still be called a wilderness, it’s the Skeleton Coast in northwest Namibia. The gates that mark the end of the public road at its southern boundary don’t ...

Stokelore is a monthly series, which features some of the best writers in the sport celebrating and analyzing various aspects of surf culture, history and travel. Dave Parmenter’s piece below, which ...

Can you imagine a more pitiable fate? Your ship reels broken in the storm. Implacable winds and currents run you aground, but by a miracle, you do not drown. You overcome and drag yourself exhausted ...