Outside’s People of the Year
The year in adventure fitness, gear, and sports was shaped by bold visionaries with world-changing dreams—and the mojo to make them real
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We bring you the year’s most fearless athletes, activists, entrepreneurs, inventors, artists, and lifesavers. From Alex Honnold, whose climbs of El Cap left us all gasping for air, to the women surfers breaking barriers on the world’s biggest waves, to the Navajo runners uplifting Native American communities, these are the visionaries who inspired us most.
2018’s Most Impactful Entrepreneurs
Meet the minds shaping and building the big business of the outdoors.
2018’s Most Accomplished Athletes
2018’s Boldest Activists
These are the movers and shakers inspiring positive change in the outdoors.
