Adventure
ArchiveWill attempt cloud seeding to combat fires
In Teva’s Beyond the Drop, six pro kayakers from around the world meet up in the rainforests of Southern Mexico to run the Rio Tulijá. Also known as the Agua Azul, the river features impossibly blue water and a series of five large waterfalls.
Second-place finished hours behind
Mass ride and a running race
Austin Smith and Bryan Fox said no to energy drinks, and in the process said yes to clean water.
Faces 10 years in prison
Senior editor Grayson Schaffer was on assignment reporting a story on—coincidentally—tornadoes when this twister hit the Denver airport.
Continues to improve and recover from fractured pelvis
Just after noon on the day before Thanksgiving 2011, 25-year-old NOLS student Rob Tesar unwittingly walked into quicksand in the Utah backcountry. Half a day later, he was still stuck upright, trying to stay awake.
Young crushers today are sending grades that didn't exist 20 years ago. But can their growing bodies handle the strain?
Debuting at music festivals this summer
Highest percentage in history
Will compete at French national championships
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano has erupted
Without safety gear
Get your wheels spinning at these killer bike fests
Climate scientists Jason Box and McKenzie Skiles are packing up their ice core drills and heading to Greenland on a crowd-funded expedition.
The life of a Sherpa is relatively lucrative in Nepal, but no service industry in the world so frequently kills and maims its workers for the benefit of paying clients. As Grayson Schaffer reports, the dead are often forgotten, and their families left with nothing but ghosts.
Lured down with promise of blanket
Sank in 17th century
Fifth sighting since April
Believed to be 1,200 years old
Jumped on the creature and went for a ride
Will generate enough energy to power Denver
What made this former legislative aide ditch Capitol Hill for the life of a wandering fly fisherman? The fish, of course.
Lifts 187.2 pounds, humiliates everyone
379 homes destroyed, two dead
Drought and climate change have turned western forests into firebombs that go off every summer. Even with new technology, the essential weapon in the fight against flame are the Hotshots, an elite group of wilderness first responders who head straight for the heat.
Using freezing air to cool servers
Harmful to birds, say UK experts
In new study from Yeshiva University
Will swim 100 miles with no shark cage
Every summer, 50 elite athletes endure a torture test of cold and wet at a tiny island off the south coast of Ireland, where they train to swim the English Channel. The only rules: No wetsuits. Or whining. Matt Bondurant goes deep.
Studied the effects of the ash borer beetle
Stuck in crevasse field
Austrian nets sixth win of 2013
When Polly Green set out to work her way back to kayaking's World Championships, she had no idea that she'd end up documenting the rise of the sport's next generation
Foreign minister headed to Addis Ababa
Shot by the SERPENT project
Burn through 2.8 percent of the forest
Driver escapes unharmed, condition of moose unknown
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency is making its long-awaited move to lift federal protections for the gray wolf while focusing more resources on Mexican wolf recovery. But the fate of the species remains unclear.
Was familiar with the river
Would dwarf the Panama Canal
Advised beach-goers to go to rival beach
Responsibility will move to states
The champion South Carolina kayaker can’t train full-time. But that hasn’t stopped her from holding her own in some of the world’s biggest water.
Car had tumbled down a cliff
Adam Gemili loses by .1 seconds
I read about the cardboard bike launching on Kickstarter, but is it true a bike’s been made out of washing machine parts? What’s the weirdest thing a bike’s been made out of?
Led to a 70% drop on stray feces
Will Grand Rapids, Michigan, soon become the Boulder, Colorado, of the Midwest? Two paddlers are on the path to making it happen.
After a tabloid linked one of the best female ski racers on the planet to a notorious doping proponent, we decided to take a closer look at the possibilities of doping in the sport. What we found might surprise you.
Uses accelerometer to measure pet activity
2.6 mile-wide twister killed 19
The history of tornadoes in the U.S. by the numbers—and 4 tips on how to survive one
When welder Paul Gaylord went to help his sick cat outside of his Prineville, Oregon, home, he never thought the effort would leave him fighting for his life against the Middle Ages’ most notorious disease: the “Black Death.”
The high-flying slopestyle star shares where his tricks come from and how he gets ready to face the competition