Drug Test
Everybody knows that many athletes cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids, testosterone, and EPO. But what is it like to take these banned substances? Do they really help you win?...
Outside Classics
The Mountain of Mountains
How do you crack the code to K2, the darkest, deadliest peak on the planet? If you're a climber, have the courage to accept that you're bound to fail, and the wisdom to know that failure has its own...
The Solitary Way
Sure, it's lonely out there. (And if trouble strikes, you're on your own.) But the mind-clearing rewards of solo adventure, says veteran mountain guide JACK TURNER, make all the risks worthwhile.
These Pants Saved My Life
Grab a pair of XXLs and head up to Talkeetna, Alaska, where Carhartts aren't just the clothes the plumber wears and every year the populace gathers to swap tales of heroic trousers and...
The Birdman Drops In
What's it like defying gravity for a living? It's pretty sweet, bro. The mega-life of TONY HAWK.
Boy Wonder
Roger Carver May be only 12, but he has some serious things to teach us: 1. Snowboarding is fun. 2. People are complicated. 3. Destiny is really weird.
Terminal Ice
Hot enough for you? Yeah, us too. Go to the bottom of the planet—or the top—and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of ...
Climbing Lessons from the School of Tomaz Humar
#1 You must merge with the living energy of the mountain. #2 That nagging headache may be the result of an avalanche that has just crushed your tent. #3 In order to endure the most dire physical...
Bit
On September 11, in a remote corner of Myanmar, herpetologist Joseph Slowinski reached into a snake bag, as he had done a thousand times before. The next 28 hours would be his last. Mark W. Moffett...
The Respect of the Men
Straight from the gut, an expedition leader reveals his management secrets
Where the Ghost Bird Sings by the Poison Springs
What's that smell? It's a teeming avian sanctuary—and a sump of troubled waters. It's a mess that we created—and a puzzle we can't solve. It's California's Salton Sea, a hypersaline lake...
It's Gonna Suck To Be You
Brave 101 miles of rugged Rocky Mountain trail and scree, brutal cold, and the moist rattle of pulmonary edema. Endure 66,000 vertical feet of elevation change, driving sleet, and a little capillary...
The Sting of the Assassin
In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, Peter Stark combines true life science with chilling scenarios of fatal hazards in the...
The Fist of God
Why are these people beating each other senseless? Travel deep out onto the Bolivian altiplano, across the line between campesino and gringo, too far past the border between celebration and...
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