National Geographic Adventure Magazine: April 2002

Moab's Greatest Ride
Believe the hype: Writer and photographer Steve Casimiro finds out why Utah's White Rim Trail is mountain biking's mecca>>

Q & A

Scandal in the Amazon
Writer Scott Wallace tells what it took to track one of anthropology's biggest controversies in Venezuela's forbidden rain forests. Plus: photos of the hidden world of the Yanomami>>

In the Magazine

Excerpts
•	Lewis and Clark Get Lost
•	Napoleon in Exile—Controversy in the Amazon
•	Chasing the Red Barren—Utah's White Rim
•	A Very Good Place to Disappear—The Search for Family Secrets in Belize

	Life on Assignment
	Lewis and Clark on the Rocks Having survived grizzlies and Indians, the explorers nearly died in the clutches of a single spare mountain range. Writer Tim Cahill retraced the expedition's darkest hours, and lived to tell about it. Go behind his new article >>

	Forum
	Guide or Lifeguard? Should outfitters be fully responsible for their clients' safety? Or is guided adventure a matter of "buyer beware"? >>

	Guide
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	Adventure Know-It-All
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