I’m really sorry it happened and really glad I survived. Notes on the flabbergasting climax of an Alaska road trip that changed my life. | Continue reading
Meet an amazing man who has dedicated his entire adult life to stone skipping, sacrificing everything to produce world-record throws that defy the laws of physics. To hear him tell it, he has no choice. | Continue reading
Every year, more than 500 Americans will be struck by lightning—and roughly 90 percent of them will survive. Though they remain among the living, their minds and bodies will be instantly, fundamentally altered in ways that still leave scientists scratching their heads. | Continue reading
Endurance-science experts explain the world record holder’s incredible marathon dominance | Continue reading
Our basic biology can steer us toward bad habits and compulsive behavior. Overcoming these pitfalls requires effort and discipline. | Continue reading
Over the past two decades, eBird has become the go-to online platform for scientists and hobbyists alike to upload and share bird observations. But it has also transformed the process and etiquette of birding. | Continue reading
Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong? | Continue reading
It doesn't matter if you're Reinhold Messner or Ed Viesturs: your summit never happened unless Elizabeth Hawley says it did. | Continue reading
Joey Santore’s YouTube channel, Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t, crosses citizen science with vigilante environmentalism | Continue reading
I learned the hard way that lying to your kids backfires | Continue reading
What is a good boy anyway? How do you become one? These are the questions that keep me up at night. | Continue reading
Why one would want to ski the Ice Coast, from a diehard defender | Continue reading
In South Florida, cane toads are so numerous that they seem to be dropping from the sky. They're overtaking parking lots and backyards, can weigh almost six pounds, and pack enough poison to kill pets. Why the surge? | Continue reading
Pinned down and running out of food, Stephen "Otter" Olshansky scraped his way to a campground latrine, holed up inside, and prayed for a miracle. | Continue reading
Why Apple’s CEO wants to make health and wellness the company’s greatest legacy | Continue reading
All over the West, a housing crisis is causing workforce shortages, crippling local businesses, and threatening the culture and existence of mountain towns as we know them. But amid the doom and gloom, some people are fighting for solutions. | Continue reading
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Cycling, running, and obstacle course racing are dominated by white-collar workers. And while disposable income makes competing more feasible, researchers are also starting to discover a psychological pull that draws these people to masochistic events. | Continue reading
After a legendary career in adventure writing, Tim Cahill thought his story was over. Thrown from a raft in the Grand Canyon’s Lava Falls, he was trapped underwater and out of air. When he finally reached land, his heart stopped for several minutes. Then he came back—and decided … | Continue reading
Last December, around 100 tourists set out for New Zealand's Whakaari/White Island, where an active volcano has attracted hundreds of thousands of vacationers since the early 1990s. It was supposed to be a routine six-hour tour, including the highlight: a quick hike into the isla … | Continue reading
Regular exercisers drink more, a new study confirms, but are less likely to be problem drinkers | Continue reading
At the outer edges of endurance sports, something interesting is happening: women are beating men | Continue reading
As a young climber, David Roberts believed in the greatness of risk. Then death came suddenly, too easily. And it came again and again. | Continue reading
Lyme-carrying ticks are a bigger threat than ever. A promising new antibody treatment looks to stop infection—even after a tick bite. | Continue reading
There are easy ways to prevent both, yet we carry on as if nothing is wrong | Continue reading
My hiking equipment began failing exactly 12 hours before I began walking the Pacific Crest Trail in late April. Weeks earlier, a company that shall | Continue reading
It's not just the gear purchases—it's how we think about the future. Here’s the Outside guide to getting your financial $hit together, no selling out required. | Continue reading
I fell in love with cycling while watching the Tour each year with my father. When he was dying last summer, it became so much more than just the world’s biggest bike race. | Continue reading
Climate change is melting the glaciers and permafrost of the Mont Blanc massif, revealing crystals hidden in pockets once covered in snow. Simon Akam tagged along on an expedition with one of the area’s most legendary hunters, a daring French alpinist who completes dangerous clim … | Continue reading
That brand-new 2021 model may be hard to come by these days, but the used bike market has endless inventory. Here’s why old bikes rule. | Continue reading
Cycling, running, and obstacle course racing are dominated by white-collar workers. And while disposable income makes competing more feasible, researchers are also starting to discover a psychological pull that draws these people to masochistic events. | Continue reading
Body fat is not a reliable indicator of health. So why are we obsessed with it? | Continue reading
Teenage diver Sebastian Morris and his dad were hunting for treasure in the Gulf of Mexico when they found a below-the-knee prosthetic. How do you lose that in the ocean? Amazingly, they solved the mystery. | Continue reading
The odds of being attacked by a shark are less than one in 11 million, which makes it nearly impossible to find people to turn to when you become that one. Enter a support group of survivors called the Bite Club—the most exclusive club nobody wants to join. | Continue reading
There are easy ways to prevent both, yet we carry on as if nothing is wrong | Continue reading
And what happens to your brain when you finally nail it | Continue reading
For centuries, dowsers have claimed the ability to find groundwater, precious metals, and other quarry using divining rods and an uncanny intuition. Is it the real deal or woo-woo? Dan Schwartz suspends disbelief to see for himself. | Continue reading
The past year has been relentless in so many ways. But despite the challenges, there’s also a lot of good news out there to get you excited about the months ahead. | Continue reading
Investigators, family, and friends are still trying to close the case of Paul Fugate, a naturalist at Arizona’s Chiricahua National Monument who vanished without a trace in 1980. What keeps them motivated to stick with a mystery that may be unsolvable? | Continue reading
Spun-out Teslas on snowy roads. Cabins bought for cash, sight unseen. A shoveling disaster. Locals bemoan the pandemic-induced migration of Bay Area residents to the mountains. But there are two sides to the Zoom-town story. | Continue reading
What I learned about love, loss, and landscape over two decades of living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in the Utah desert | Continue reading
It’s like biathlon, but for geeks | Continue reading
While it’s one of the most popular adventuremobiles, it’s also one of the most widely misunderstood. Here’s how to upgrade yours without creating a monster. | Continue reading
A long-standing debate on how to optimize your endurance efficiency gets a new infusion of data | Continue reading
Tallying which articles are most frequently cited in later studies reveals the biggest trends in sports science—and some oversights | Continue reading
For a book project about 16th-century polar explorer William Barents, Andrea Pitzer needed to reach the remote Arctic island where he and his men came to grief. She booked passage on an expeditionary boat out of Murmansk, then headed north on a trip marked by unforgettable scener … | Continue reading
With the help of the nonprofit BikeMaps.org, we analyzed the data we collected on bicyclists killed by drivers in 2020 and found some surprising takeaways | Continue reading
For nearly half a century, legends of a giant cave in the Andes—holding artifacts that could rewrite human history—have beckoned adventurers and tantalized fans of the occult. Now the daughter of a legendary explorer is on a new kind of quest: to tell the truth about the cave in … | Continue reading