Blair Braverman is a writer and adventurer. She’s a contributing editor for Outside, a long-distance dogsledder, and bestselling author, most recently, of Small Game and Dogs on the Trail. She’s completed some of the toughest dogsled races in the world, including the Iditarod, the Kobuk 440, and the Canadian Challenge.
Blair’s a contributor to The New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, This American Life, and elsewhere. She recently hosted the BBC Radio 4 show Animal and is survival correspondent for the podcast You’re Wrong About. She’s spoken about resilience in the wilderness for companies including Microsoft and Google.
Her favorite pieces she’s written for Outside are about competing on the Discovery show Naked and Afraid, being a woman alone in the woods, learning to write, and mischievous sled dog Blowhole.
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In an always-connected society, the urge to unplug has never been stronger. A new book takes a fresh look at just how difficult that can be.
Turning puppies into full-fledged dogsledding athletes is a tough endeavor, but all the hard work melts away on that first winter run
Turning puppies into full-fledged dogsledding athletes is a tough endeavor—one we'll explore over the next four months. First up: making sure they're not afraid.
The photos in the accomplished skier's new fitness-focused book show that she knows her power. But do her messages about strength and beauty hit quite as powerfully today?
At 18, determined to carve out a life as a "tough girl," Blair Braverman moved to Norway to learn dogsledding at an Arctic folk school, chasing fear and finding home in the great white North.