The Skeleton Coast in Namibia is the breeding ground for a really spectacular nightmare. Beneath the sea it’s burgeoning with life, but on land it’s best described by utter absences. There’s no soil, ...

A barren stretch of shore in Namibia maintains a reputation as one of the harshest places on earth…and it has an ominous name to match. The Skeleton Coast owes its appellation to the whalebones that ...

Beauty sometimes comes in the most unexpected forms and in the most obscure places. Take the unparalleled beauty of the Skeleton Coast for instance. Located on Namibia s northern Atlantic Ocean ...

“Flying the coast is insane,” says Jan Friede, a longtime ranger at Skeleton Coast National Park and now a bush pilot for African Profile Safaris. Sweeping up from Antarctic waters, the cold Benguela ...

Portuguese sailors nicknamed the Skeleton Coast the "Gates of Hell." Accurate at the time, given the number of shipwrecks. The remains of survivors are mixed up with the last remnants of the area's ...

Stokelore is a monthly series, which features some of the best writers in the sport celebrating and analyzing various aspects of surf culture, history and travel. Dave Parmenter’s piece below, which ...

It has 500 shipwrecks, lions prowling the beaches and 11 types of shark. But the sand dunes behind the shore are natural and apart from the shipwrecks Namibia's 1,570 kilometer coastline offers ...

But the sand dunes towering a hundred meters (300 feet) behind the shore and the fact there’s nothing man-made — other than shipwrecks — for a hundred miles in every direction indicate that there’s ...