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ArchiveDirector Michael Brown gives advice on making a great adventure film.
The competition between family members heats up.
The most physically and emotionally demanding day of Bill Barkeley's life.
A large-scale mining project on British Columbia's Flathead poses some issues.
First Ascent kayaker Ben Stookesberry and crew venture into an 8,000-foot gorge for a first descent.
An all out race to the finish, a day of tricks, and jet boating after the event.
Canines try to run, jump, and swim to victory in Dock Dogs. By Adriana Slater, Outside Adventure Film School…
An introduction to Usher Syndrome & the assistive technologies Barkeley will use…
The best places to shoot from to capture drama and perspective.
Forty-five orphans at the Mission Mexico orphanage add surfing to their to do list.
Watch the trailer to the new German film that fictionalizes the Nazi-era race to scale Eiger's north face.
Mikala Jones & Peter Hayes hit the waves in TGR's 2006 surf film Shack Therapy…
A day of casting and competition on and off the river. By John Gates, Outside Adventure Film School…
How to balance risk when making an adventure movie.
Guide Jeff Evans helps Barkeley navigate a steep slope and narrow pass.
Krissy takes on Western States, a 100-mile ultramarathon.
John Harlin III climbs the mountain that claimed his father's life.
How to shoot a conversation to avoid confusing the viewer.
Surfer Gerry Lopez's son Alex falls for snowboarding.
Three surprisingly gratifying genre novels that take you away
The Outside Adventure Film School went to the Teva Mountain Games and spent a week filming climbing, kayaking, and mountain biking. Here are three videos Michael Brown's students came up with. Behind the Scenes…
Climber Matt Maddaloni works on pushing the limits of climbing with a new tool called the anticam. theseasontv.com…
Outside contributor Alan Arnette discusses his plan to climb the seven summits and raise more than $1 millon for Alzheimer's research—all within a year. To listen to the extended interview click here, or subscribe to our…
Go behind the scenes of photographer Nigel Parry’s May 2011 Outside magazine cover shoot with Stephen Colbert…
Courtesy of Rodale His middle name, Makalani, is Hawaiian for “skilled at writing,” so it's no surprise that Cincinnati Bengals' defensive captain Dhani Jones has a book out this month. In The Sportsman, he chronicles the…
Courtesy of Rodale His middle name, Makalani, is Hawaiian for “skilled at writing,” so it's no surprise that Cincinnati Bengals' defensive captain Dhani Jones has a book out this month. In The Sportsman, he chronicles the…
Mountainfilm is at once the most refreshing and exhausting event of the year. For four days 2,000 guests do everything they can to watch all 73 films, listen to the 18 panel discussions, and shake the hand of each of the 29 authors at the book signings. Between events everybody…
Mountaineer Conrad Anker discusses his new DVD The Wildest Dream, discovering George Mallory's body on Everest, and his plans to compete in the 2014 Olympics. To listen to the extended interview click here, or subscribe…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QAGxy85R380%C2%A0 The final pre-Mountainfilm trailer we're showing is If a Tree Falls, a film from Academy Award nominated director Marshall Curry. The feature documentary tells the story of the rise and fall of the violent anarchist group the Earth Liberation Front. The…
Bidder 70 from Gage & Gage Productions on Vimeo. Tim DeChristopher has been in the news since December 2008, when the former University of Utah economics student bid $1.8 million on 13 parcels of BLM land in Utah at a federal…
Kadoma_teaser from Ben Stookesberry on Vimeo. Telluride, Colorado's Mountainfilm is four days out and counting. To continue our trailer-a-day trend, here's Kadoma, a film from whitewater kayakers and filmmakers Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic. Kadoma tells the story of their…
This year's Mountainfilm, which starts Friday in Telluride, Colorado, features three films about happiness. Here are their trailers. The first, called simply Happy, is an 80-minute feature film from Roko Belic, who directed the Academy-Award nominated Genghis Blues. To shoot Happy, Belic…
A few months ago, I got an email from filmmaker Trip Jennings telling me Spoil, a film he directed and I helped put together, was selected to Telluride, Colorado's Mountainfilm festival, which starts a week from today. This is where I gush. Telluride's surrounded by…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NdAoLloMY9c American Rivers, the country’s foremost river focused nonprofit, released their annual list of the top ten endangered rivers yesterday. It marks the 26th year American Rivers has released the report, drawing attention to some 360…
One year after the spill, two books examine the causes and effects of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
They say that becoming a dad means your days of big trips and serious adventure are over. They are so wrong.
Journey of Hope 2011, Courtesy of Central Asia Institute Late last Friday, Outside obtained an advance copy of the Central Asia Institute’s annual Journey of Hope newsletter from Anne Beyersdorfer, the independent public relations specialist who has, for the past three weeks, acted as the…
COLD – TRAILER from Anson Fogel on Vimeo. Anson Fogel’s new film Cold is a gripping edit of the footage photographer and mountaineer Cory Richards’s shot during his February ascent of Pakistan's 26,360-foot Gasherbrum II.
Court papers filed today in the U.S. District Court in Missoula, Montana, claim that embattled Central Asia Institute founder and philanthropist Greg Mortenson defrauded both his donors and people who purchased his books, Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools. A copy of the complaint, which was filed by…
The Scene, the latest movie from filmmaker Chuck Fryberger, looks at the varied ways people send by traveling to four of the world's most vibrant climbing communities: the sandstone Mecca of Moab, Utah; the cutting-edge sport crags of Catalonia; the competition scene of Innsbruck,…
So many things happened in the Outside world this April that we understand you not keeping track of everything. Here are the highlights, including some wicked mountain-bike porn, Outside's best covers, a bit on the Greg Mortenson controversy, and a love letter. Number 10:…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hN2gMP3Q2Z4%C2%A0 Brace yourself for stupidity, but do watch this video of an armor-clad waterskier killing Asian Carp on the Illinois River near Peoria. His weapon is a samurai sword, and his intent is to accomplish what invasive species management teams have been unable to: purge Asian Carp, which now…
This is a big month for wild salmon advocates. On Sunday, May 1 at 8 PM Eastern, PBS will air a Nature special, Salmon: Running the Gauntlet, that offers a terrific broad-strokes history of the collapse of the fish in the once-prolific Columbia…
Last week, attempting to address accusations that he’d fabricated large portions of his bestselling book Three Cups of Tea, author and Central Asia Institute founder Greg Mortenson revised his story about stumbling lost into the Pakistani town of Korphe on his way…
A new memoir from a fire lookout makes a convincing case for quitting your job.
In case you missed it, Fitz Cahall and Bryan Smith put out another great video short about two weeks ago. The film is called The Love Letter, and its message is simple. Every once in a while it's good to…
Best-selling author Greg Mortenson came under fire this weekend when a piece on 60 Minutes called into question the veracity of Mortenson’s books Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, and the financial management of his Bozeman, Montana-based nonprofit, the Central Asia Institute (…
Best-selling author Greg Mortenson came under fire this weekend when a piece on 60 Minutes called into question the veracity of Mortenson's books Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, and the financial management of his Bozeman, Montana-based nonprofit, the Central Asia Institute (…
Sometime around World War II, synthetics exploded into our everyday lives. By some estimates, these materials—plasticizers, dyes, pesticides—have increased by a shocking 8,200 percent in the last quarter century. The upshot of that, of course, has been improved agriculture, economic wealth, and an abundance of…
Sometime around World War II, synthetics exploded into our everyday lives. By some estimates, these materials—plasticizers, dyes, pesticides—have increased by a shocking 8,200 percent in the last quarter century. The upshot of that, of course, has been improved agriculture, economic wealth, and an abundance of…
Geoelectric image showing electrical conductivity of magma plume beneath Yellowstone Caldera. Courtesy of the University of Utah. Geophysicists at the University of Utah have…
Geoelectric image showing electrical conductivity of magma plume beneath Yellowstone Caldera. Courtesy of the University of Utah. Geophysicists at the University of Utah have…
A cold day in Yosemite National Park. Courtesy of Fovea Centralis on Flickr Five months into the fiscal year, the federal government's inability to find common ground on the annual budget is…
A cold day in Yosemite National Park. Courtesy of Fovea Centralis on Flickr Five months into the fiscal year, the federal government's inability to find common ground on the annual budget is…
Jeremy Wade, Host of Animal Planet's River Monsters (Courtesy Animal Planet) In the first two seasons of Animal Planet’s River Monsters, host Jeremy Wade has taken viewers around the world as he looks to discover the truth behind some of fishing’s tallest tales. Before…
Jeremy Wade, Host of Animal Planet's River Monsters (Courtesy Animal Planet) In the first two seasons of Animal Planet’s River Monsters, host Jeremy Wade has taken viewers around the world as he looks to discover the truth behind some of fishing’s tallest tales. Before Season…
Photo from backtothewildbook.org Fans of Jon Krakauer's 1993 story Death of an Innocent—and the resulting book and…
Photo from backtothewildbook.org Fans of Jon Krakauer’s 1993 story Death of an Innocent—and the resulting book and…
Courtesy of Flickr A slew of big news stories have hit the wires this morning. Here they are all in one clump, for obvious reasons. A new Mount Everest record is scheduled to be set,…
Courtesy of Flickr A slew of big news stories have hit the wires this morning. Here they are all in one clump, for obvious reasons. A new Mount Everest record is scheduled to be set,…
Just in case you were outside during the entire month of March, here's what you missed on the Outside blog. 10. The World's Strongest 9 Year Old https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ml-rxMwcaf0%C2%A0%C2%A0 9. Spring Break Survival Gear…
Alexandra Horowitz on her bestseller Inside of a Dog, summer tips for your pooch, and why the Far Side gets it right. To listen to the extended interview click here, or subscribe to our iTunes podcasts.—Stayton…
Dr. John R. Sharp, who teaches at Harvard and UCLA, has been practicing psychiatry for two decades. He brings his wisdom to the masses with The Emotional Calendar, a book of case studies and advice on recognizing…
We found a lot of people getting outside and doing what they love this week. Here’s hoping they inspire you to do the same. The stuff you need to click on this week: Dommy No MatesAlaska to Chile, on a Tandem Bike via…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vnwPSu7B2pM On Tuesday, Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, and, most recently, Why We Get Fat, appeared on the Dr.
An exclusive preview of Tracy Ross's new memoir, a gripping account of childhood sexual abuse, escape, and the healing power of wilderness and adventure.
Flying bikes, floating cars, and Yogi Bear in the gray bar hotel. Once again, here's the stuff you should click on this week. The Best Helmet Cam Footage We've Seen in a WhileChile's Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Race –Michael Webster…
They met in Alaska and became the ultimate adventure couple, biking and hiking and skiing their way to lifelong commitment. Then the kids and careers arrived, and the passion started leaking like oil from his bro truck. (Don't get her started on that.) Can a hardcore backpacking trip stand in for couples therapy? The author drags her husband into the Colorado wilderness to find out.