Learning to Ride a Onewheel with L. Renee Blount
L. Renee Blount is a designer, a photographer, and an outdoor enthusiast. In this new series, she tries a new activity every month.
Adventure Archive
The Final Descent of Dean Cummings
From the outside, things seemed perfect for the former world extreme skiing champion: he had a family, a successful guiding business, and unending adventure out his front door in Valdez, Alaska. But something dark festered beneath the surface.
Light Painting Under the Night Sky
Here’s one way to use a flashlight that you might not have thought of
Five Knots to Know, According to a Professional Tree Climber
Need to add knot-tying skills to your life but don’t know where to start? Follow along with professional tree climber Waldo Etherington.
Is This Winter’s Sketchy Snowpack the New Normal?
Volatile weather has created dangerous conditions for backcountry skiers and set up the West for a bad water year. With climate change exacerbating the situation, it’s time to start assuming the worst for our winters and making plans to adapt.
Buried Alive—and Running Out of Time
The desperate race to save a skier who disappeared under an avalanche
What It’s Like to Ski-Tour for 60 Hours Straight
In an uncommon skimo race in New Hampshire, two skiers climbed the equivalent of Mount Everest—twice
Rotimi Odukoya Is Diversifying Climbing in London
Odukoya created a group called Clmbxr to encourage and guide new Black climbers
The Fierce Competition of Top Athletes for Expedition Funding
The company sponsors some of the best athletes in the world, from Emily Harrington to Alex Honnold, all of whom are vying for a slice of the brand’s annual budget to support their expeditions. The process can be as competitive as getting into an Ivy League university—except, if approved, the athletes are often taking on death-defying adventures.
Don’t Blame the Texas Blackouts on Renewable Energy
Right-wing politicians and media are trying to scapegoat frozen wind turbines for the state’s power disaster. Their claims couldn’t be more inaccurate and irresponsible.