The modern-day explorer:Sarah Marquis is redefining what it means to be a modern-day explorer. She’s a hiking specialist who spends months, sometimes even years, walking across scarcely traveled swaths of earth. From 2010 to 2013, she trekked 10,000 miles from Siberia to the Gobi Desert, then (after 13 days on a cargo ship) across Australia. She has camped in minus-30-degree cold and endured blizzards, sandstorms, mudslides, dengue fever, and an almost fatal tooth infection. Yet she has no plans to stop.(Outside Magazine) "How does a restless person find a still spot in the world? How can a nomad make a home, that is at once sustaining and invigorating, not boring?"