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.

With fire and drought ravaging New Mexico, Katie Arnold and family head up to southern Colorado on a multisport adventure

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.

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.

GoPro Games champion Sage Donnelly has her eyes set on the World Freestyle Championships—and from pro paddlers twice her age to diabetes, nothing is going to stand in her way.

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?

After quitting their jobs and selling their house, Coloradoans Erica and Mark Lighthiser packed it up—kids, dog, possessions—and started pedaling north. How far will their journey take them?

The iconic travel-writer addresses his new book and the claims that he is an "Afro-pessimist"

From ferrying kids to preschool to hitting up the farmer’s market, Xtracycle’s beefy longtail can handle it all.

New York Times columnist Bruce Feiler’s new book The Secrets of Happy Families has a novel strategy for overwhelmed parents in need of a break: give kids more control

The Clif Kid Backyard Game of the Year contest encourages children to invent their own outdoor games rather than sitting in front of the TV. The top prize? A scholarship for ten grand.

Life Lessons from the toughest, hardest, foulest-mouthed children’s author on earth. *Parental guidance suggested.

You only get so much time with your kids before they’re grown up. After a family trip to the hot springs, Katie Arnold meditates on how best to spend it.

W. Hodding Carter, Jack Hitt, and Anthony Doerr look back on their attempts to raise kids who love the outdoors.

A trailer from Kiss the Water, a fly-fishing oddyssey and one of our favorite films from the Tribeca Film Festival.

Marmot Presents: DUK COUNTY, a documentary film that chronicles a bold medical mission to cure blindness in South Sudan. Produced by Jordan Campbell and Michael Herbener and due to premiere at Telluride Mountainfilm in May. (For more on South Sudan, check out Patrick Symmes’ feature story.)…

David Oliver Relin made his name as coauthor of the disgraced bestseller Three Cups of Tea—then tragically committed suicide. Now, a major publisher hypes Relin’s posthumous history of the inspiring Himalayan Cataract Project. Should we buy it?

The paragliding community is spitting mad about a video that purports to show a paramotor provocateur chasing and assaulting an owl for nearly seven minutes. But how do you identify the guy?

What do rock-climbing heart transplant patients, Somali pirate hunters, and arctic cowboys have in common? All could be found on the big screen at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Of this year’s 217 films, these seven outdoor-focused picks were a cut above.

After freeskier Shane McConkey died in a ski-BASE accident four years ago, a group of his friends created McConkey, a documentary of his adventures that is as thrilling as it is heartfelt. We spoke with two of the directors about the film.

Anson Fogel, founder of Forge Motion Pictures and winner of more than 60 awards at outdoor film festivals, on how to get the most out of your action cam.

If triple-digit temps are common where you live, making sure you choose the right dog for your climate is key to having a happy pooch.

Can a new trailer bike help young kids learn the rules of the road? Katie Arnold and her family put it to the test.

A brilliant adaptation of Kon-Tiki brings the legend of Thor Heyerdahl to the masses

Before his arrest last Tuesday, survivalist Troy James Knapp, a.k.a. the Mountain Man of southern Utah, lived off the fat of the landowners, breaking into cabins and running circles around sheriffs and marshals with little but his physical fitness and backcountry savvy. As Knapp appears in Sanpete County court via video this morning, JON BILLMAN reports on the

Bring print issues of Outside Magazine to life!…

Sending your kids to camp may not be the best way to keep them active in the warm months

Junger’s powerful new documentary about the life of war photographer Tim Hetherington shows us why dedicated journalists are needed now more than ever

Ueli Steck dreamed of using a paraglider to enchain three of the Alps’ most famous mountains in a day. But first he had to learn to fly.

Katie Arnold's meditation on training for a 50-mile race

One minute, you're checking a yardage marker for your buddy, and the next, you're being eaten by a golf course

It's natural to feel a little anxious before a trip into the backcountry with your kids, but follow these common sense guidelines and know everything will turn out fine

Keeping the family happy doesn't have to mean sacrificing steep terrain and old-school cool

The story of a Pacific Island community in Papua New Guinea—their unique way of life and their fight to preserve what really matters in the face of climate change.

In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form articles, collecting them here and on Longreads and Twitter. This installment focuses on sled dogs, sewer rats, and mountaintop doping.

To raise adventurous children, as Laura's father learned when she and Guppy set sail, means that someday, you have to let them go

When he isn't guiding world-renowned photographers, psychologists, and Hollywood acting coaches, Chris Dombrowski is writing. We caught up with him on the occasion of his new book.

Katie Arnold puts the Burley D'Lite and Chariot Chinook 2 to the test on a trip to the Spruce Hole Yurt in southern Colorado's San Juan Mountains

As part of her New Year's resolution to camp every month this year, Katie Arnold took her family to Spruce Hole, a 20-foot diameter canvas-walled yurt in the San Juan's Rio Grande National Forest

Elizabeth Eilers Sullivan catches up with 16-year-old Noah Pereira, the recent winner of a 150-mile dogsled race in Alaska that's seen as the precursor to the famous Iditarod

Dan Baum, author of Gun Guys: A Road Trip, talks to Jason Fagone about the appeal of the AR-15 rifle, the link between gun love and social class, and how carrying a firearm changes the way you look at the world

"If I die here on the road, at least I'm doing something to change my life."

Introducing the March 2013 issue

If you're not a hunter, you may think that a dog's instinct to locate, pursue, and kill doesn't pertain to you, but you would be wrong. Evaluating an animal's prey drive should be of paramount consideration in selecting a pet or working dog.

In this exclusive clip from The Discovery Channel’s Weed Country, airing at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, grower Nate Morris returns to his farm to find that his crop has been ripped up by a fellow grower.

Leo Houlding, Jason Pickles, and Sean “Stanley” Leary go deep into the Amazon to attempt a first ascent on the magnificent Cerro Autana.

Pick up a shelter dog and curious about what breed he or she is? In this, the second in a two-part series, Ali Carr Troxell learn about Odin and Rio for the first time.

Ditch the stroller, don't give in to frustration, and take baby steps

The trailer for Battleground: Rhino Wars, a riveting new series in which former and current Navy SEALs and a Green Beret head to South Africa to stop illegal rhino poaching.

Pick up a shelter dog and curious about what breed he or she is? In this, the first in a two-part series, Ali Carr Troxell orders a cheek-swab test kit from Canine Heritage.

In Minnesota, where hockey rules, ice is a winter crop

Hollywood sticks it to the energy establishment with the new Matt Damon and John Krasinski film

Jim Harrison's new book, made up of two longer stories, is a fascinating read about the way we navigate rivers and life

Pilgrimage, a new book and traveling exhibition by one of the magazine world's most famous working photographers, was inspired by a close-to-home family vacation

Hitch a ride with renowned surf/skate photographer Steve Sherman as he syncs up with Donavon Frankenreiter for his European “Start Livin'” Tour. Watch the full video on YouTube.

It doesn't really matter. But whichever kind you choose—chokers, slip leads, e-collars—make sure you're using it correctly.

I wrote a version of this story in October 2011. Emily Rapp’s two-year-old son, Ronan, died this morning, so I post it now in honor of him and Emily and parents everywhere who are brave enough to share their stories of living, loving, and dying.

Every Thursday, Katie Arnold, in an effort to pack in some more alone time—no sisters and no fathers allowed—picks up her daughter from preschool early and they hit the slopes

The organization that opened the first youth skate park in Afghanistan was recently named one of the top 100 NGOs in the world by Global Journal and is now in expansion mode

Find a companion you can get along with, whether from a responsible breeder or your local shelter. You’re going to be spending the next 13 years together.

Or, why you just need to disconnect every once in a while

Problem: Stress, temper tantrums, teething, nighttime waking, worry, and overscheduled days. Solution: To spend some time sleeping—and living—outdoors, away from digital distractions, at least once a month.

Cats are being blamed for killing billions of birds and small mammals in the United States every year, but off-leash, free-roaming, and feral dogs are responsible for a fair bit of damage to wildlife, too

Join us for the strange but true story of Wild Bill Cooper, playing right here on Thursday, February 7, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. ET. Filmmaker Mike Scholtz will join us in the comments below to answer your questions.

Some high-energy, athletic dogs, unable to sweat, will work to the point of self-injury, so make sure you're able to recognize the warning signs of exhaustion

Browse hundreds of additional stories, gear reviews, interviews, photo galleries, and more on what it's like to lead an active family from the Raising Rippers archive on Outside Online

Robert Stone, the Academy Award-nominated director behind Radio Bikini, has done a complete 180, embracing nuclear power in Pandora's Promise, his latest documentary. What caused him to come around?

Holding a sausage for what must be an unbearable length of time

What can we learn from traditional societies?

In his latest documentary, Albert Maysles profiles 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer, who won the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History for applying the Fibonacci number sequence to the design of solar panels

This is the strange but true story of Wild Bill Cooper. Part Arctic adventure and part crime caper, Wild Bill’s Run is an unforgettable ride with a true American folk hero. Join us for an online screening of the full film on February 7, 2013, at 7 p.m.

Sebastian Junger pays tribute to the late war photographer in Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?, a new documentary that will air on HBO in mid-April

We spoke to director Nick Ryan about his new film The Summit, which revisits a 2008 tragedy on K2, a mountain for mountaineers

A 2009 review of Reaching the Animal Mind by Karen Pryor, the trainer who popularized the term and practice of clicker training over three decades

It’s the deadliest day on the world’s most dangerous mountain in this trailer for a feature documentary. Read our Q&A with director Nick Ryan.

The Disaster Diaries author on self-reliance, situational awareness, and adulthood