Howard Berkes chats with adventure writer Tim Cahill about tigers, deserts, and transcendental meditation. Tim Cahill's latest collection of essays is Hold The Enlightenment. (Villard).

The author goes scuba diving in the Federated States of Micronesia. She credits Tim Cahill’s “Pass the Butterworms” with changing her worldview. (Dina Mishev for The Washington Post) ...

No one person--editor, writer, publisher, or athlete--has meant more to Outside than Tim Cahill. One of the founders of Outside, he put adventure journalism on--and off--the map.