Brendan Borrell writes for Scientific American, Bloomberg Businessweek, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
On a Thursday in late April, Melissa Trent, a single mother in Colorado Springs, Colorado, logged into her account on the dating website Plenty of Fish and had a new message from a user called “...
Swine flu, supervolcano eruption, zombie attack. Competitors at the Survival Trial, an adventure race in the New Mexico backcountry, come armed to the teeth and ready for anything.
One of the world's most accomplished downhill mountain bikers, Atherton racked up 13 consecutive World Cup wins last season, something no one has ever done before. Yet people still relegate her to...
Accidents on zip lines in Southeast Asia have left Western tourists with lifelong injuries. As adventure parks make their way across the Pacific and open in every U.S. state, the question to ask: Is...
Over four years, Finnish climber Nalle Hukkataival made an estimated 4,000 attempts on one notorious bouldering project before finally conquering it last October
The ski industry says not to worry, but the majority of lifts around the country are more than 20 years old and sometimes fail in catastrophic ways.
Colorado-based gear shop 123Mountain has lost much of its inventory following a court-ordered seizure to repay debts
In a world of crowdsourced review sites and marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay, it might seem shocking that a company like 123Mountain could string along angry customers for so long. But the Internet...
The artificial holds and lines devised for gyms and climbing competitions don't just happen—they're created and placed by devious people who want to force you to stretch, contort, curse, fail, and...
When a DIY French adventurer named François Guenot vanished last summer on a wild and remote Alaskan coastline, many in the state dismissed him as yet another unprepared greenhorn. But a revelatory...