Essays & Journalism by Will Bahr
Featured Work
Growing up down the road from Hollywood's favorite madman.
Gerard Julien, Getty Images
Past Work
Inside Dave Asprey's 2025 Biohacking Conference, where RFK Jr.'s MAHA agenda reigns supreme.
Photo Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images
Michael Houtz; Getty Images
Two Indigenous activists wage a battle against the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women with the best weapon in their arsenal—their feet.
Photo by Dave Arabia
Decades after Elizabeth Gilbert's profile of the man launched him to a reluctant fame, I interviewed Eustace about the plans for his legacy—which, I came to find out, involved me.
Grappling with both a profound childhood trauma and my relationship with doubt.
Illustration by Rob Vargas
Climate change, falling rocks, and communion with mortality. A paean to endings.
Collage by Simon Abranowicz; Getty Images
Photo courtesy of Immersive Van Gogh Los Angeles
Soon after vaccines rolled out, COVID-19 threatened one of the nation’s largest cities in a very particular way.
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Photo by Karolina Kolodziejczak/Unsplash
Los Angeles Magazine / June 25, 2021
Blue Ridge Outdoors / June 28, 2019
Haunted by grief, Justin Hopkins coped by hiking to every waterfall in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Photo by Thomas Mabry
Mountain XPress / October 6, 2022
Graphic courtesy of Buncombe County
Mountain XPress / October 1, 2022
Graphic courtesy of Buncombe County