They’re American mountain men—reenactors of the fur trade that ... off the yoke of civilization and return to a time when survival meant self-reliance. Photographer David Burnett recently ...

A hiker survived with little food and water for two weeks while lost on a remote Australian mountain range. Hadi Nazari, a 23-year-old medical student from Melbourne, went missing on Dec.

Mountain men roamed the wilds alone or in small groups, becoming skilled in survival, exploration, and trading furs with Native American tribes. With the 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France ...