Sandboarding is the perfect sport for you if you want the thrill of surfing along with the beauty of deserts. Riding down ...

The town of Swakopmund in Namibia is world-famous for its huge desert landscape and giant dunes that create ideal conditions ...

Shaped by the Central California coastal winds is the vast sandbox known as the Oceano Dunes. Trudging up the 200-foot sand piles can be daunting, but if you have a sandboard, you can cover a lot ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

While the dunes here may not be the tallest sand dunes in North America, you'll still pick up plenty of speed whether you're boarding or sledding. Though some sections of the park are only ...