IT IS A COMBINATION of my slight social anxiety, my lack of proper hydration, and the fact that there is an open bar, but it is 3:30 in the afternoon and I am drinking rosé like it is water.(“The sun is shining. We drink rosé.” I silently congratulate myself for being able to remember one bit of advice given to me during my first week here.

Photo by stars.alive.Chances are there’s some life wasting going on behind your front door right now. Spending hours each day staring into the eyes of your television can steal from you huge chunks of time during what could be the best years of your life.SURE, THERE ARE a few channels that offer programming that awakens and educates.

Urban explorer Steve Duncan shares shots from his out-of-bounds expeditions in New York, London, Paris, and other world cities. Editor’s note: All photos courtesy of Steve Duncan. All rights reserved. Steve Duncan has been an urban explorer for over a decade, first venturing underground as a student at Columbia University in New York City.

Matador Ambassador Henry Munter paddles a few of the remote rivers of northern India before moving downstream to the headwaters of the Ganges.THIS OCTOBER, I headed over to the subcontinent to catch up with my wife, Kelly, and her kayaking partner, Lisa, for a month of paddling in Northern India.Although I missed out on the high alpine river valleys of the Ladakh region, where Kelly and Lisa had spent the previous month, we were able to paddle Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand while basing out of Manali and Rishikesh.

I don’t have a wedding album and I blame myself.The thing is…being a photographer, I often have different requirements for other photographers I hire along the lines of “Nah, don’t worry. Just send me the RAW unprocessed files.”And so that’s exactly what I told my wedding photographer to do – deliver a DVD of RAW files.

Rolling a kayak is like learning to ride a bike. Once you’ve got it, you’ll have it forever.ROLLING A KAYAK is one of the most counter-intuitive things you’ll ever try.When you’re upside down, your instinct tells you to go UP, to get AIR, but it’s exactly the opposite that you have to do–keep your head down, and bring it up last–in order to roll correctly.