Japanese Alps
The Japanese Alps are three mountain ranges that bisect Honshu, Japan's main island, and hold the country's only active glaciers.
Exploration
Filling in the map, usually for someone else's benefit.
- 5
- in nature
- 9:44
- average
- 49 min
- in total
- 49
- across the network
All briefs
Mount Roraima
A mountain that refuses to be known—even after 140 years of looking.
Challenger Deep
Earth’s deepest known point isn’t a single hole—it’s three aligned basins, mapped, measured, and descended—but it tells us nothing about life, heat, or time down there.
Hang Sơn Đoòng
The world’s largest cave isn’t just big—it’s a monsoon-gated cathedral of limestone that resets what ‘massive’ means underground.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge isn’t a mountain range—it’s a wound in the Earth’s crust that never heals.