The move is welcomed by Indigenous groups. | Continue reading
If you’ve seen “Free Solo” you probably remember Honnold getting a brain scan and the doctors pointing out that he doesn’t seem to experience fear the same way most people do. And that may seem like the answer when questioning how someone can pull themselve | Continue reading
Half the fun is getting dirty, until everything you own is gross—here's how to stay fresh wilderness-style. | Continue reading
Research shows we can start to reverse warming in as few as three years. | Continue reading
Who owns the river, anyway? | Continue reading
Uplifting new film tells the story of renaming a mountain from a racist slur in honor of the former slave who settled below it. | Continue reading
The smell of the tropics would be nice right now. A hot white sun, warming these winter-chilled bones. Mexico’s Oaxaca coast would work just fine. Especially this little concrete cabana, Casa Tiny. It’s available for rent for less than two hundred bucks a night. Adorable, minimal … | Continue reading
Bountiful big game in the alpine meadows and timbered ravines of Wyoming’s Elk Mountain drew four Missouri hunters to the area last fall. They encountered several points where the corners of four land parcels met: two public and two private plots, alternating like the squares of … | Continue reading
Read an excerpt from travel writer extraordinaire Bill Arnott's new collection, "Gone Viking II." | Continue reading
Just ladies mixing it up in the wintry backcountry. | Continue reading
There’s a reason that winter is soup season. When you’re exploring in colder weather, it takes more than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to tide you over | Continue reading
The never give up attitude we like to see. | Continue reading
Before gaining fame as a documentarian of Native Americans, he was an early expedition shooter. | Continue reading
Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten had a planned ski mountaineering route all set to go in Pakistan. When they arrived and began hauling themselves up the mountain, they encountered horrifying avalanche conditions. Here’s a primer on how to deal with that, from people whose lives … | Continue reading
In 1988, the Atomic Ski Company engineer Rupert Huber was asked to make a powder ski that could float on top of fluffy snow better than the average ski. At the time Atomic had gotten into snowboard production and the engineer decided cutting a snowboard in half and tinkering arou … | Continue reading
Crushes come in all forms. | Continue reading
Watching skiers compete almost entirely on artificially made snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics, we found it hard not to think about climate change and what it will mean for the future of the winter sports industry – and who will be able to participate. Ski areas are increasingly r … | Continue reading
When the wind blows, they still cycle. Foolishly, but they do it. | Continue reading
Pucker up buttercup, we're squeezing chutes today in the Dolomites, POV-style. | Continue reading
The man who's rowed solo across more ocean than anyone, picks up the oars once more. | Continue reading
Last August, on a brutally hot summer's day, while hiking a trail with little shade, max sun exposure, and out of drinking water, a California family perished | Continue reading
Does anything stay beautiful forever? Trail running can, if you follow the principles of KISS. | Continue reading
Bitte setzen Sie, Rosmarie would like a word. | Continue reading
This little cabin is only two weekends and 2,500 smackers away. | Continue reading
In “The Treeline,” Ben Rawlence explores the fate of the Earth’s boreal forests in the climate-change era. | Continue reading
Embracing west Africa's surf culture, both ancient and brand new. | Continue reading
Come at this wolf a | Continue reading
We need not hike in funk-covered backpacks | Continue reading
In 1940, when he was 19, Lionel Terray left school to become a farmer and mountain guide. He came from a well-to-do family that had high hopes for him, but Terray had simpler ambitions – to live simply in the mountains, with plenty of time to climb. By his own admission Terray wa … | Continue reading
A remote hostel, lots of riding, nobody else around. The name of the hostel, Dolgoch, | Continue reading
The famed bit of polar exploring iconography awaits discovery 10,000 feet below the surface. | Continue reading
California’s stressed blue oak woodlands abound with beauty and teem with uncertainty. | Continue reading
Is it climbing’s most iconic route? Don’t know. Probably depends on where you’re from. But The Nose, on Yosemite’s El Capitan, is a treasured big wall climb, a mecca for those who permanently have chalk | Continue reading
Don't blame ya, UPS driver. | Continue reading
As the industry's biggest trade show ponders a return to Utah, the industry's biggest brands say: "No." | Continue reading
Its headlights look like the eyes of a benevolent alien, while its four-wheel-drive will go most anywhere. | Continue reading
Californi'a Rock Cobbler race sees angry surprise entrant. | Continue reading
Attention outdoor clothes designers. | Continue reading
This time last year, I was doing a legal “water drop” on public land close to our border with Mexico, visiting as an unofficial and self-funded reporter to learn more about this local effort. What I found is that volunteers here are the unsung, unseen heroes doing the real work o … | Continue reading
Hunkpapa Lakota skier Connor Ryan, skiing in Ute Territory, is always cognizant of the balance between the worlds pf | Continue reading
It's your car, do what you want with it, naysaying truck owners be damned. | Continue reading
From the front lines of raptor conservation. | Continue reading
Meet the tough-as-nails woman who survived an incredible polar stranding. | Continue reading
"Let's go down this big ole' hill" — This kid, and everyone else who's ever experienced gravity. | Continue reading
Nothing sweeter. | Continue reading
Take two national park passes and call me in the morning. | Continue reading
The Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) served with distinction in the First World War, sustained in their bitter Gallipoli campaign by ANZAC ‘biscuits’ – a hard cookie – sent from home. We’ve taken that recipe and used it as an inspiration for this hearty breakfast – p … | Continue reading
Big adventure, and note taking in gorgeous journals, music to our souls. | Continue reading