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The vast majority of people who have summited Mount Everest have porters to thank for it—but being a porter is far from a safe profession. Yet, for many Sherpa, this is their only way to support their families. After becoming a porter at the age of 12 and summiting Everest 21 times, Apa Sherpa has created a foundation to ensure that children have another path to travel in life through their education.

28 minutes

[ Innovation ]

The Surprising Life Behind Your Chocolate

If you’ve ever eaten chocolate, then you’re definitely going to want to check this out. Most of us don’t know of the lengthy, fascinating process it goes through before it makes it to us!

Image: People standing away from us on a forest trail surrounded by the lights from fireflies.

15 minutes

[ Nature ]

Fireflies Put on Quite the Show in Mexico

On this edition of Saturday’s Around the World, we’re traveling to Mexico to experience the light show few have seen happening in their forests!

Image: A line of Moai statues on Rapa Nui also called Easter Island

20 minutes

[ Culture ]

Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Rapa Nui

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, is well known for its Moai. While many go to see these incredible stone statues that tower over the landscape, few are introduced to the rich culture they represent. This is the story of that culture and the people working to preserve it!

Image: Team of climbers in winter gear climbing a snowy mountain

15 minutes

[ Culture ]

Bringing Bangladesh to the Top of the World

By Erin Murphy

Climbing to the highest peak of every continent is no small feat. So what does it take for a person to conquer the Seven Summits? For Wasfia Nazreen, it began with a mission to put her country on the map and fight for the empowerment of women.

Image: A close-up portrait of a female orangutan (Pongo pymaeus) and her young together, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia

20 minutes

[ Animals ]

Orangutan Culture Feels Very… Familiar

We share 97% of our DNA with orangutans, but what we’ve known about their cultural customs and habits have been limited… until now.

Image: Aerial view of the expansive Canyonland National Park

15 minutes

[ Culture ]

A History Carved in Canyon Walls

It’s hard to find a place in the United States that holds as much human history as Canyonlands and the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The ingenuity of the people who lived on this land centuries ago is literally carved into the stone!

17 minutes

[ Culture ]

Snowboarding’s Alternative Origin Story?

We think of the modern snowboard is a fairly recent innovation, but people in Turkey have been sliding down snow-covered hills on the petranboard for centuries!

Image:People sitting inside of cave next to colony of glow worms

11 minutes

[ Animals ]

Surprise! Those Are Worms, Not Stars

Welcome to the luminescent ceiling of New Zealand’s Waitomo Caves. It may look like the lights of another solar system, but in reality, it’s home to thousands of wriggling carnivorous glow worms.

Image: Cano Cristales -- the rainbow river

4 minutes

[ Nature ]

Don’t Miss the Rainbow River

For a short amount of time every year, the conditions in Colombia are perfect for a rainbow to bloom in the river, Caño Cristales.

Image: Giant Flowering Wisteria tree reflected in water

13 minutes

[ Art ]

Take a Little Trip to Reset Your Sense of Wonder

How can we overcome the monotony of the day to day and be reinspired by the world around us? Why not take a trip to some of the world’s most wonderful places?

Image: Silhouette of a skier on a mountain

36 minutes

[ Happiness & Hope ]

Rewriting Stories on Mountainsides

We typically don’t want to go back to a place we had a terrible experience. But what if we did? Here’s the story of three U.S. Army Captains returning to Iraq for the first time since combat to experience something completely different.

15 minutes

[ Culture ]

Cheers to Years of Tradition

Let EWC help you celebrate the holiday season by spotlighting some of the oldest and quirkiest brews in the world! From enjoying beers the Pharaohs would have sipped to wine fermented at the bottom of the sea, these brewmasters are certainly proving it’s still an amazing world!

Image: Greenland mountains and misty valley

23 minutes

[ Nature ]

The Greatness of Testing Our Limits (ft. Greenland)

What can a climb into an unexplored environment teach us about ourselves? Today we sit back, relax, and watch as a team of athletes spend weeks journeying through Greenland on the hunt for a mountain captured in a blurry photo.

6 minutes

[ Animals ]

Jellyfish Lake: An Otherworldly Place

On this Saturday Around the World, we take you to one of the most incredible underwater places in the world: Jellyfish Lake! Home to millions of beautiful, virtually stingless Golden Jellyfish, this is quite the aquatic marvel.

Image: Dozens of Himalayan Honey Bees also known as Apis Dorsata; the largest honey bees in the world that produce hallucinogenic honey collected by honey hunters.

15 minutes

[ Animals ]

The Last Hallucinogenic Honey Hunters of Nepal

What could come from documenting some of the most remarkable human traditions? Today we head to breathtaking heights on the steep cliffs of Nepal and have the privilege of looking behind the scenes of what’s said to be the last traditional hallucinogenic honey harvest. You won’t want to miss this!

Image: Artist standing on their paddleboard in the forefront of their creation: a massive, stunning painting of a woman reaching out of the waters.

19 minutes

[ Art ]

Through the Eyes of a Creative Outsider

Art has a powerful way of shifting our perceptions. Today, we get to see that creative magic unfold along the Canadian shores when visited by the artist, Hula.

Image: Camping at night under the stars, capturing the movement of light

5 minutes

[ Culture ]

The Deeper Opportunity in Travel

Could we be getting more from the excursions we take into new environments? It turns out that we can find a bit of wisdom in mear travel to the next town or halfway across the world. Here’s a completely new way of looking at travel!

14 minutes

[ Culture ]

How Can We All Find the Runner’s Fuel

What ignites someones desire to run 100 miles? Turns out they are running on a kind of fuel we all have access to and it’s a really great recipe!

13 minutes

[ Art ]

What Could the Creation of Art in Space Mean for our Future?

Did you know there’s a sculpture floating in the wild unknown outside of our planet? What could this mean for us?

22 minutes

[ Art ]

So, What’s a Food Forest?

There’s something growing on the South Coast of New Zealand that could change our lives. Check it out!

Image: Hills and rice patties of Luzon province of the Philippines

8 minutes

[ Art ]

The Traditions of This Tribe Have Left Quite a Mark

What you can find in the mountains of the Philippines may stay with you forever, especially if you happen to visit Apo Whang-Od in her village. She’s single handedly working and teaching to keep her culture’s tradition alive!

19 minutes

[ Education Enrichment ]

Paragliding: Seeing a Place, Leaving No Trace

Want to walk a little taller today? Keep in mind that things are often only as bleak as our singular perspective is narrow! Here’s wonder exposed by a new point of view!

Image: Man on a paddleboard out in the ocean at sunset

7 minutes

[ Culture ]

Why Paddleboard to Victoria, Canada?

Have you noticed that in our haste to make our lives easier, we actually experience far less wonder and adventure? Here’s a perspective that may feel like a gift!

Image: Indian Man planting a tree on a beach

22 minutes

[ Animals ]

Creating Something Out of Nothing: The Forest Man of India

Magicians aren’t the only people who specialize in making something out of nothing. There are a few ordinary folks whose single-mindedness is their magic. See what you think of the work of the Forest Man of India.

11 minutes

[ Animals ]

Hop on Over to Japan’s Rabbit Island

There are places in the world that shift our sense of “normal”, and the wonder never leaves us. Here’s a small wonder!

Image: Giraffe's poking their heads into the windows of Giraffe Manor during breakfast

8 minutes

[ Animals ]

Breakfast at Giraffe Manor

You get a wonderful appreciation of the size of a giraffe when their head is in your cereal bowl. Here’s the marvelous story of Kenya’s Giraffe Manor.

Image: Salmon colored sky over the the water on the inside passage

17 minutes

[ Culture ]

Paralyzed and Sailing the Inside Passage