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When 23-year-old Lahr went missing on a trail outside Ouray, Colorado, the world lost an amazing young talent
In the latest sneak peek from Red Bull Media House and MSP Films’ epic Fall 2014 release, DAYS OF MY YOUTH, Big Mountain skier Cody Townsend is doing what he does best: skiing huge lines and getting big air.
Can anything slow down Phil Robertson, the most controversial name in reality TV?
A unique look into skiing and the power forged within the athletes mind. As action sports athletes must push themselves physically, they also must equally push themselves mentally. “Action sports are a mental game. Every trick, variation and landing is generated in your mind as a vision or dream of…
Drones have allowed just about anyone to gain an aerial perspective. Donald Miralle’s images show you why these unmanned aircraft might change photography forever—and why a helicopter is still pretty handy, too.
The Making of True To This: Episode 3 ‘Not New To This’, takes us deeper into the never ending journey of the stone and the beckoning of the inner voice. Explore the fringes of the Veeco Film Productions library with Volcom team riders past and present.
Epic adventure narrative about the 1897 Yukon Gold Rush airs this week
Now available Vimeo On Demand. Everything is baked. The snow has turned to mush and that burn is starting to peel. Fortunately, for those seeking cover from the glare there is a reset on the way. Hot on the heels of Level 1’s award-winning film Sunny comes a…
The Wegge Bros have set off on a new adventure: watch the new Bear Island Trailer! Inge Wegge (25) and Jørn Ranum (22) spent nine months in an isolated and uninhabited bay of a remote, arctic island by the coast of Northern-Norway. To surf of course….
Look out Planet Earth. Filmed entirely in the Oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve that harbors the largest population of wild horses and red deer in Europe. The film aims to show the circle of life in all its intricacy and glory – not through didactic scientific explanation, but by feel,…
The co-owner of Clif Bar speaks up about the traveling women’s film festival.
Pro paddler Rush Sturges dishes tips on making dazzling adventure films
River renegades! Crazy foreign correspondents! Somali kidnappers! These were the epic yarns and soul-stirring stories that held us transfixed.
From the shark that choked on a moose to an investigation into Tough Mudder's first death, we look back at the stories that defined the year.
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LunaFest is a nationwide film festival featuring films by, for, and about women. The proceeds from the 190-plus events across the country are donated to non-profits, and more than $1.25 million has been raised for women’s organizations.
What does Santa look for under the Christmas tree… Happy holidays and ride safe!…
A documentary from around the globe about our relationship with water. In select theaters starting this fall. …
Official trailer for DAYS OF MY YOUTH coming in the fall of 2014. A film by Red Bull Media House and MSP Films. Athletes include Richard Permin, Mark Abma, Bobby Brown, James Heim, Cody Townsend, PK Hunder, Russ Henshaw, Michelle Parker, Gus Kenworthy, Markus Eder, and Sam Anthamatten.
A stirring film by Lucy Walker. The project chronicles Kevin Pearce and Shaun White in the lead up to the 2010 Olympics, where White won gold and Pearce didn’t even make it to competition after being left in a coma after a training accident. The project chronicles Kevin Pearce…
Ultraruns and extreme triathlons are the stuff Guido Van der Werve’s work is made of.
A project following Robert Young Pelton in his attempt to find the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Read the full article here. …
What’s a niche adventure photographer to do when social media and technology create the perfect environment for copycats? In the case of North Shore wave photographer Clark Little, put down the coffee, assess the mayhem, and then dive right in.
Proven strategies for getting laughs, plus some always winning punch lines
Morgan Beck Miller mostly kept quiet about the bitter custody battle consuming her and her husband Bode. Until she didn't.
“Bear Island is not the kind of island that you can buy a ticket to, and take a boat or an airplane.” The Wegge Bros from “North of the Sun” set out on another journey that may just top their previous one. Another cold-weather quest filled with surfing, snowboarding, and…
From film festivals to private releases, we combed this year's batch of adventure cinema to bring you the best-of-show.
By Field Productions. Follow a group of the world’s most talented skiers and snowboarders on an intense and unpredictable trip through exotic destinations in Norway, Sweden, Canada, USA and New Zealand.
A film by b4apres media. The fight against oil giant Enbridge for the Great Bear Rainforest.
Sure, Katniss Everdeen looks hot wielding a carbon-fiber bow. But don't look too closely at her shooting and survival skills.
Following in the footsteps of Confluence’s earlier releases DRIFT, RISE and CONNECT, WAYPOINTS is the most exotic, ambitious and in-depth feature-length project that Confluence has ever created.
What drives Lance Armstrong? Director Alex Gibney, along with producers Frank Marshall and Matt Tolmach, offers an answer, and reexamines their role in promoting his story.
Here is a look behind the scenes of Alastair Lee’s new film The Last Great Climb, which premiered on November 4th. The film follows Leo Houlding with his team of Jason Pickles and Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary as they attempt to make the first ascent of the NE ridge of Ulvetanna…
Starring Jeremy Jones, a 2013 National Geographic ‘Adventurer of the Year,’ Higher is the final piece of the TGR trilogy. Jones and his crew are elevating their game and taking their quest to the highest standard for the third and final installment of the Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy from Teton Gravity…
November 4th Premiere! Alastair Lee’s film on Leo Houlding with his team of Jason Pickles and Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary as they attempt to make the first ascent of the NE ridge of Ulvetanna Pea. The Last Great Climb…
How a fearless filmmaker is shifting the conversation around snowboarding and big air
The Southern Foodways Alliance searches out the best hidden food personalities in the American South, tells their stories in films and oral histories, and puts their farms and restaurants on the map. We called filmmaker Joe York to find out why he works so hard to raise the profile of out-of-the-way cooks, farmers, and ranchers.
When outdoor athletes put down their gear and pick up guitars
One of the boldest skiers of our time, Shane McConkey left behind a wife, a daughter, and one of the sport's greatest legacies. Now a new documentary shares intimate details of his life. We talk to his widow, Sherry McConkey, about the film and their time together.
Teton Gravity Research’s Way Of Life is now available for download on iTunes. Check out the opening segment.
A short-film revealing what is perhaps Joel Tudor’s greatest contribution to surfing. Featuring Joel Tudor, Alex Knost, Tyler Warren, Ryan Burch, Jared Mell and more. Directed by Graham Nash and Reagan Ritchie.
An embedded film-maker boldly documents Lance Armstrong’s downfall
In a new book, author and naturalist Doug Peacock imagines our species’ next big adventure—coping with a climate apocalypse that may now be imminent.
The North Face Speaker Series hosts mountaineering legends Conrad Anker, Simone Moro and Kit DesLauriers. Tune in at 7 p.m. Eastern as the three Everest giants discuss what the future holds for the top of the world.
Harvard biologist Daniel Lieberman's new book, The Story of the Human Body, digs deep into the real meaning of "paleo" and why we struggle to stay fit and healthy in the modern age.
One car, one infinite urban sprawl, and one long list of the places where the legendary show was filmed. Mapping out a self-guided auto route seemed doable—but was it survivable?
Books, far more than movies or television or video games, impose a very useful obligation on the reader: the joy of exercising your imagination. These are our top classic tales for formative years.
Now’s your best chance to hold nothing back
Set goals for others, get a tattoo, and don't try to outswim an angry beaver.
With an entourage of powder freaks and beautiful athletic women, Nick Waggoner is doing his twenties justice—taking big creative risks and traveling the world directing artsy ski porn that sponsors love.
Photographer Todd McLellan destroyed some of his favorite old gear so he could take pictures of it. We called him up to find out why.
The official trailer to 4bi9 Media’s upcoming ski film, All Damn Day, set to be released August 2013.
Two literary lions deliver long-awaited epics about espionage and globalization
The new trailer to Sweetgrass Productions' upcoming ski film, Valhalla, set to be released Sept. 13…
Just train for 10,000 hours, right? Not quite. In his new book, author David Epstein argues that top-shelf athletic performance may be a more complicated formula than we’ve recently come to believe.
A clip from Lucy Walker’s staggering new film about Kevin Pierce and traumatic brain injury in adventure sports.
Inside the partnership of a nine-year-old bouldering prodigy and her passionate coach, from Sender Films.
Ben Hewitt talks about his new book, Saved, and the challenges of learning to live the cashless dream
The director of HBO's fracking documentary talks environment, contamination, and community
The king of survival talks about his new NBC reality show Get Out Alive, mending fences with the Discovery Channel, and making regular people eat awful things. PLUS: Exclusive video clips from the new show.
He's loud, he's proud, and—advisably or not—the Nuge always speaks his mind. We caught up with the 64-year-old rocker ahead of the return of his TV show, Spirit of the Wild, to talk about why he still spends his downtime hanging out in the woods.
A new book on the vanished age of airline hijacking captures an astonishing time. There was no airport security, and people brandishing weapons and bombs routinely commandeered aircraft around the world.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, the story of pollination, an ongoing dance between flowers and the bees, bats, hummingbirds and butterflies that are essential to life on earth.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, director Roger Ross Williams returns with a different look at Uganda.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, a ragtag crew sails deep into a fjord in Greenland. The water channel, iced over for millenia, is open to exploration only because of global warming.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, welcome to the world of off-width crack climbing, a sub-genre that attracts a rare breed.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, Robert Stone’s newest film questions much of what we accept as fact about the negative side of nuclear as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Pandora’s Promise, a new film by Robert Stone, argues that our only chance of escaping climate-change doom is a global shift to atomic energy. David Biello has a few hard questions, including: What will we do with all that waste?
The iconic travel-writer addresses his new book and the claims that he is an "Afro-pessimist"
Life Lessons from the toughest, hardest, foulest-mouthed children’s author on earth. *Parental guidance suggested.
A trailer from Kiss the Water, a fly-fishing oddyssey and one of our favorite films from the Tribeca Film Festival.