Longtime Outside readers will tell you: The funniest story this magazine ever published appeared early in its history, in 1983, when a prolific writer named Don Katz persuaded the editors to let him celebrate the strangest sport anybody had ever heard of. His odd but true tale became an instant sensation.

As a young climber, David Roberts believed in the greatness of risk. Then death came suddenly, too easily. And it came again and again.

For 90 million years the turtles have massed to lay their eggs. This time they gathered for their own mass murder…

A consideration of hunting

Snowboarder Jeremy Jones seeks out the biggest and most remote lines in the latest film by Teton Gravity Research, Further. It premiers in the fall of 2012.