Richard Carr, a retired psychologist who had long dreamed of sailing around the world, was in the middle of the Pacific when he started sending frantic messages that said pirates were boarding his boat. Two thousand miles away in Los Angeles, his family woke up to a nightmare: he … | Continue reading
John Orth is a violin maker from Colorado. Andrew Shapiro is a college kid from Virginia. They have little in common except that for the last two years they've been trading back and forth the world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours. Over the summer, they both set their … | Continue reading
Told here in full for the first time, this is the horrifying story of the first murder on the Appalachian Trail, the kidnapping that followed, and how one woman learned to survive. | Continue reading
John Long was living the greatest adventure of his life, sailing home from San Francisco to his native Ireland. But when his beaten and bruised body was found floating off the lawless, empty coast of Chiapas, it was a scene that sailor and author Davin Vann knew all too well. | Continue reading
About an hour before midnight on Mother’s Day in 1986, a group of teenagers assembled at an Episcopal high school in Portland, Oregon, to embark on an expedition. Their goal was to summit Mount Hood, completing an adventure program that was required for all sophomores. What follo … | Continue reading
A new study finds that having “elite” levels of aerobic fitness increases longevity relative to merely “high” levels. | Continue reading
What if striving to be great is what's holding you back? | Continue reading
The 33 special agents assigned to the Investigative Services Branch handle the most complex crimes committed on NPS land. When a day hike in Rocky Mountain National Park ended in a grisly death, ISB veteran Beth Shott hit the trail, where she began unraveling a harrowing case. | Continue reading
A quick overview of Outside's journey to rid its Drupal 7 site of jQuery and use emerging standards | Continue reading
The 33 special agents assigned to the Investigative Services Branch handle the most complex crimes committed on NPS land. When a day hike in Rocky Mountain National Park ended in a grisly death, ISB veteran Beth Shott hit the trail, where she began unraveling a harrowing case. | Continue reading
If the outdoor industry doesn't embrace hunters and anglers as political allies in conservation battles, we all lose | Continue reading
Wag and Rover are booming in popularity, but is your dog safe with them? | Continue reading
At the bottom of the biggest underwater cave in the world, diving deeper than almost anyone had ever gone, Dave Shaw found the body of a young man who had disappeared ten years earlier. What happened after Shaw promised to go back is nearly unbelievable—unless you believe in ghos … | Continue reading
On the harder-to-measure benefits of age and experience | Continue reading
Avery Shawler left her Idaho apartment one morning in 2016 to hike a prominent peak. But the day outing quickly took a turn for the worse, and Shawler would end up needing a lot of luck—and all her backcountry skills—to make it home alive. | 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
After six months and 2,000 miles of hiking, Tenny Ostrem and Claire Wernstedt-Lynch finally reached the Gulf of Mexico | Continue reading
Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin were riding around the world when they were killed in a brutal attack | Continue reading
The high-tech material has been used to build frames and components for decades, but as bikes age, catastrophic failures are leading to lawsuits | Continue reading
Nine tips gleaned from the Swedish parenting playbook | Continue reading
In 2015, in a secret medical procedure carried out in Bogota, Colombia, the 44-year-old woman got dozens of experimental gene-therapy injections. Why? Because Parrish, the creator of a longevity company called BioViva, believes that science is on the cusp of delivering radically … | Continue reading
The Spanish ultra-athlete has spent the past decade crushing a generation of elite rivals and redefining the limits of human endurance. But when he notched back-to-back speed ascents of Everest in 2017, critics pounced on the claims. | Continue reading
More and more bike companies are selling road bikes built to be ridden on dirt roads. Are they marketing hype or the future of cycling? | Continue reading
The problem isn’t dockless bikes. It's dockless cars. | Continue reading
A new study recommends that humans need to give animals time as well as space | Continue reading
When Raymond Stansel was busted in 1974, he was one of Florida’s biggest pot smugglers. Facing trial and years in prison, he jumped bail, changed his name, and holed up in a remote Australian outpost. Even more remarkable than that? His second life as an environmental hero. | Continue reading
Liability lawyer and former professional bike racer Megan Hottman spends her working hours representing cyclists who've been injured by reckless drivers. She spends her leisure time riding and telling people what they don't always want to hear: in the perpetual, complicated confl … | Continue reading