YOUR WEEKLY ESCAPE: The loneliest road in America

Plus: A missing camera that could rewrite history, a shipwreck frozen in time, and the tragic tale of a royal impostor [A 'FROZEN DRAGON' HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT]( [VIEW ONLINE]( [UNEARTHING A 'FROZEN DRAGON']( [National Geographic]( Your Weekly Escape Extraordinary people, discoveries, and places in a time of turmoil PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN NOEL, MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION 1924. COURTESY OF ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY [A camera lost on Everest could rewrite history. We tried to find it.]( Were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay really the first to conquer the world's highest peak? We searched for a camera that could solve Everest's biggest mystery. [SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE]( SHARE [F]( [T]( PHOTOGRAPH BY MATHIAS SVOLD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC [This is the loneliest road in America]( It's a place where the lines between John Wayne Westerns and everyday life blur, where ghost towns bleed into living ones. This is Route 50: a Gold Rush-era highway that paves the way to the West’s last frontier. [TRAVEL ALONG]( SHARE [F]( [T]( SCREENSHOT COURTESY PARKS CANADA, UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY TEAM [Tantalizing clues emerge from an Arctic shipwreck 'frozen in time']( Researchers made haunting discoveries while peering deep inside H.M.S. Terror, one of two ships lost during Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. [SEE WHAT THEY FOUND]( SHARE [F]( [T]( ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID MAAS [New 'frozen dragon' pterosaur found hiding in plain sight]( The flying reptile discovered in the icy badlands of Alberta once soared over the heads of dinosaurs with a wingspan of at least 16 feet. [READ ON]( SHARE [F]( [T]( [QUOTE] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments in life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate. Montesquieu French philosopher PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIDGEMAN/ACI [The 'pretender princess' who tried to steal a throne]( To protect her reign, Catherine the Great set a clever trap for Princess Tarakanova—a royal impostor whose true identity remains a mystery. [SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE]( SHARE [F]( [T]( [Get a rare glimpse of the world's biggest pig]( The 600-pound giant forest hog is expert at avoiding people, who are increasingly hunting the animal in its African habitat. [WATCH VIDEO]( SHARE [F]( [T]( PHOTOGRAPH BY DANITA DELIMONT, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO [These are some of America's most beautiful urban parks]( See the nation’s geographical diversity, history, and grandeur—without leaving the city. [SEE THE PHOTOS]( SHARE [F]( [T]( Need a distraction? [Watch: BTS performs a Tiny Desk concert (NPR)]( ›› [This dystopian lake may one day form a new ocean (BBC)]( ›› [Sign up here]( ) to receive Your Weekly Escape and/or our daily newsletters—covering History, Travel, Science, Animals, and Photography news. See you next week. Blue skies, green lights! [NGM]( [NGM]( [SHOP]( [DONATE]( [SUBSCRIBE]( [TRAVEL]( [READ OUR LATEST STORIES]( [SHOP]( [DONATE]( [SUBSCRIBE]( [TRAVEL]( [FB]( [Twitter]( [IG]( Clicking on the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and National Geographic Channel links will take you away from our National Geographic Partners site where different terms of use and privacy policy apply. This email was sent to: {EMAIL}. Please do not reply to this email as this address is not monitored. This email contains an advertisement from: National Geographic | 1145 17th Street, N.W. | Washington, D.C. 20036 You are receiving this email because you elected to receive marketing communications from National Geographic under the terms of our [Privacy Policy]( [Manage all types of email preferences]( with National Geographic Partners. [Unsubscribe]( this type of email. If you reside in the EU/European Economic Area and wish to exercise all other data subject rights, [click here.]( © 2020 National Geographic Partners, LLC, All rights reserved.