Unsung Heroes

Pro surfer Mikey DeTemple creates a must watch short film about the environment

DeTemple is known for creating surf cult short films but this one he believes is “the most important film” he has ever made. It’s about the problems Mikey and others situated in his home town of Montauk, New York face everyday, aware or not. The Surfrider foundation approached the film maker and pro surfer with the idea…

It’s in our nature: Matthew Webb

Being the first person to swim the English Channel unaided: that’s what Matthew Webb wanted to do—and it’s just what he did.

It’s in our nature: Miriam O’Brien Underhill

Climbing some of the world’s most challenging mountains without the elements or the male-dominated alpine world stopping her: that’s what Miriam O’Brien Underhill wanted to do—and it’s just what she did. In the 1920s, in the wake of the Great War, the world was in transition: new technologies were being introduced, the first signs of…