After decades spent wandering the globe, the veteran travel writer takes a domestic detour

This one-woman film crew has hopped the globe (and endured blood-sucking critters) to bring unheard voices to the fore

The secret? Leaf blowers, peat moss, and cornstarch.

As Hollywood prepares to release its adaptation of 'The Martian,' author Andy Weir talks about what it would take to send a person to Mars, and what he's got cooking for his next novel

We talked to the filmmaker behind a new Patagonia-funded film about a controversial ski resort development in British Columbia

The adventure documentary tracks four young Texans as they lead a group of mustangs from Mexico to Canada

The complicated relationship between high altitude workers and Western climbers is on display in ‘Sherpa’

To capture professional-grade footage on the world’s highest peak, the makers of Everest turned to a Colorado cameraman who got his start shooting for Warren Miller

The new film from Sweetgrass Productions shows you what it's like to pedal through a rattlesnake-infested desert—in the middle of the night

The filmmakers behind Reel Rock talk Alex Honnold’s early years, the Dawn Wall feature documentary, and what makes a good movie

An opportunity for a digital up-close encounter, to mark a great conservation achievement

After a terrifying brush with death two years ago forced the Canadian free-rider to confront his inner demons, a new film seeks to chronicle his spiritual journey

Does the catastrophe that gave us 'Into Thin Air' still have the power to captivate? We talk to the cast and crew of the new movie 'Everest' about making an adventure epic roar to life for a new generation.

With a blockbuster film about the deadly storm in the works, we spoke with one of the climbers who made it out alive about the tragedy

Photojournalist Max Whittaker takes you right to the fire line.

If the Rocky Mountains aren’t close enough, there are plenty of other treasures you can search for

Scrolling through that confounding mix of cinema will give us all carpal tunnel. Stop it this moment and check out our list of below-the-radar survival films.

Sponsor Content: Rex Pemberton continues on his quest to fly his wingsuit from Los Angeles to Catalina Island. …

Shark Week host Paul de Gelder lays out some techniques for finding your happy place around some of the planet’s oldest predators

Sponsor Content: Rex Pemberton continues on his quest to fly his wingsuit from Los Angeles to Catalina Island.

A group of ten ultrarunners attempted to chase down a pronghorn antelope in Northern New Mexico to answer the question of how humans evolved with a remarkable capacity for endurance running

Andy Casagrande saw his first shark on TV when he was a kid growing up in New York City, and it immediately captivated him.

Famed marine expert and non-fiction author Susan Casey takes us on a deep dive into humanity’s complex connection to dolphins.

By this summer, Long Island, New York, photographer Eric Meola will have logged more than 100 days and perhaps as many as 25,000 miles in the Great Plains over the past three years.

Sponsor Content: Rex Pemberton continues on his quest to fly his wingsuit from Los Angeles to Catalina Island. …

Sponsor Content: Rex Pemberton continues on his quest to fly his wingsuit from Los Angeles to Catalina Island.

After winning the coveted audience award at Sundance, the documentary 'Meru' is getting a nationwide theatrical release next month. How did a climbing movie break through with mainstream audiences? Credit the incredible story at its center: a tale of tragedy, family, friendship, risk, and the redemptive power of suffering.

Sponsor Content: Rex Pemberton continues on his quest to fly his wingsuit from Los Angeles to Catalina Island.

Sponsor Content: Rex Pemberton kicks off his quest to fly his wingsuit from Los Angeles to Catalina Island.

In a new memoir, William Finnegan takes a break from hard-hitting reporting to explore his passion for the water

We’ve all fantasized about dropping everything and carving out a private paradise the wilderness. Foster Huntington did exactly that.

The best stories aren't just on paper anymore. Our (totally subjective) ranking assembles the millenium's 33 best new classics.

'Sunshine Superman' traces the rise and fall of a BASE-jumping pioneer

This year’s film festival, which kicks off Friday in Telluride, is chock full of 100 films, ranging from feature length documentaries about climbing the world’s toughest mountains to short, art films. Here are the 10 you shouldn’t miss.

This year’s Mountainfilm festival is dominated by feature-length climbing documentaries. The rise of these movies isn’t coincidence.

A new documentary from National Geographic chronicles a British man's cross-country march from L.A. to D.C. to appeal his visa ban at the Russian Embassy and hopefully continue his hike across the world.

A former firefighter himself, former 'Outside' editor Kyle Dickman retells the story of the tragic 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona in his new book.

The bestselling author fielded questions in front of 600 people last night

This month, Insight Editions released “The Finest Line,” by big-wave surfer Rusty Long. The coffee table book chronicles all the best big-wave spots and surfers in the world with large, brilliant pictures by some of the top surf photographers.

The book showcases some of the best photography and personalities in the adventure world. Here’s a quick preview of what to expect from the new coffee table favorite.

In his latest book, 'Missoula', the writer who became famous for diving deep into true tales of human tragedy uses a college town in Montana to underscore the national issue of college sexual assault.

Micah True, the late star of the book ‘Born to Run,’ is the subject of a new documentary that seeks to unveil the man behind the legend

A new film looks at the world of competitive skydiving and the people who spend all their free time falling out of the sky.

Star Matt Galland talks about surprise encounters with giant snakes in Mexico, watching his friend nearly drown during filming, and what else we can expect from his new reality show.

The Californian daredevil doesn’t want you to love his film. He wants you to be unsettled. And that may be the best thing about 'When Dogs Fly.'

Shooting 50,000 images for a 12-image assignment, surviving sub-zero temperatures, and being willing to just wait (for months)—all in a day's work for Paul Nicklen.

A fresh look at Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey, plus this month's best novel-soundtrack combo

New books to reach for, whether you're of the mind that everything is going to be okay, or that everything is terrible all the time

We asked an expert to watch the horror movie ‘Backcountry’ and break down the myths and realities of encountering one of the forest's most intimidating animals

The 2000 ordeal of four kidnapped climbers in Kyrgyzstan was only the beginning.

Defining moments in sled-dog cinema, from slapstick schlock to Japanese realism.

Journalist Edward Struzik renders a barely recognizable far north—but it’s one worth getting to know.

Every spring, two baseball teams meet at California's San Quentin prison. One never leaves. Abe Streep reports from behind bars. Read Inside Baseball here.

It's a long story involving snow gods, the director's next film, and big money for the ski town. Take a seat.

American cross-country legend Craig Virgin lays out the connection between distance running and farm work

The International Ocean Film Tour showcases the best water sports and environmental films of the year, and kicks off in Hamburg, Germany on March 21, 2015.  …

A marathon swimmer's reenactment transports theatergoers to the middle of the Florida Straits

The key to contentment lies in these cute drawings.

Before 'Into Thin Air,' the firsthand report on the 1996 Everest disaster, became a best-selling book, it was an Outside story. Now it's been immortalized as an opera.

Never-before-seen footage sheds fascinating new light on the heir who went missing in 1961—and the man who set out on a quixotic quest to unravel the mystery

Peter Kray’s new novella, The God of Skiing, has a lot to say. We’re not quite sure what it all means, but we sure did enjoy the ride.

Can the largest river restoration project in history serve as a template for other waterways across the country?

Jimmy Chin’s documentary on scaling the Shark’s Fin may be the best climbing movie of the year—only it’s not really about the climb.

In Mind the Gap: The Making of unReal Episode 1, we follow mountain bikers Brett Rheeder, Tom van Steenbergen and Cam McCaul to Turtle Ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. The concept for this shoot was fairly simple: ride mountain bikes with horses. The execution, on the other hand, proved to be…

All good things. “The Climb,” which airs Sunday, tracks the pro skier’s 22-month rehab and singled-minded determination to reclaim women’s skiing’s top spot.

The best ideas often come from spending a little time in the great outdoors. S. Carey’s upcoming EP, Supermoon, was recorded during one weekend in August 2014 when the Supermoon was visible, and this short film explores how nature and a love of fly…

In his relatively short career, Andy Mann has served as the senior photographer at Climbing Magazine and had his images appear in National Geographic and the New York Times. He cofounded Boulder-based 3 Strings Productions in 2010 and has a travel schedule that most pilots would envy. Lucky for us, we get to tag along for the ride courtesy of Instagram. We caught up with Mann for a few tips and to see what separates his shots from the rest. 

The filmmaker behind 'The Cove' is bringing his groundbreaking approach to...plankton?

Never take a blurry, disappointing star picture again. Here’s how to up your night photography game.

The outdoor-writing legend has made a career out of cheating death in wild places, but he's never cut it closer than this

In his debut novel, John Vaillant delivers a terrifying border tale

A conversation with Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce, journalists who have spent years documenting the horrible story of sexually abusive swim coaches—and dogging a national governing body that they think is beyond repair

With a bevy of new ski and snowboard films in theaters this month, a quick primer on what sets ski porn apart from other titillating genres.

Don't know how to take pictures of stars or the milky way? We walk you though how to do it.

What happens when a wolf comes to visit—and stays? A new book looks at the unlikely six-year friendship between a wild wolf and the people (and dogs) of Juneau, Alaska.

An explosive memoir by Carine McCandless provides new details about a toxic family environment that drove her brother to embark on the famous and fatal quest immortalized by Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

The movie version of Cheryl Strayed's hit book features Reese Witherspoon like you've rarely seen her—tangled hair, ratty clothes, and dirt under her fingernails. But the backpacking film has a secret: it's actually a brutal story about loss and love.

The award-winning journalist's new documentary breaks the mold. The result? A poignant look at quitting war, conflict addiction, and what it means to be a man.

This Friday, Netflix releases Virunga, a documentary thriller about the fight to save the mountain gorillas of Congo’s Virunga National Park. We talked with warden Emmanuel de Merode on what it feels like to be shot while defending the most dangerous wilderness on earth.

The Brooklyn guitarist's lush new record welcomes the snowy season.