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When Hurricane Sandy closed in on New York City, the Weather Channel dispatched (who else?) Jim Cantore. Nick Heil tagged along for a wet, wild adventure that quickly became something else—a survival challenge in the darkest hours of a killer storm.
There are countless ways to meet your end in the great outdoors. These are ten of the most unpleasant, ignominious, and terrifying ways to go.
There are countless ways to meet your end in the great outdoors. These are ten of the most unpleasant, ignominious, and terrifying ways to go.
Fire crews don't expect to make gains until rainy season
Whether they're mountain bikers or roadies, cyclists are often their own worst enemies when it comes to training. Repair your routine by eliminating these ten common mistakes
Filmmaker Aaron Lieber tells the inspiring story of professional surfer Lakey Peterson as he follows her around the globe in her rookie year on the ASP World Tour.
Trying to create authentic experience
While scouting a Costa Rican jungle for the perfect location for the show “Naked and Afraid,” 51-year-old executive producer Steve Rankin was bitten by one of the most dangerous vipers on earth, the fer-de-lance. Here’s how he survived the ordeal.
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.
Austin Smith and Bryan Fox said no to energy drinks, and in the process said yes to clean water.
Continues to improve and recover from fractured pelvis
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.
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?
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.
Climate scientists Jason Box and McKenzie Skiles are packing up their ice core drills and heading to Greenland on a crowd-funded expedition.
What made this former legislative aide ditch Capitol Hill for the life of a wandering fly fisherman? The fish, of course.
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.
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.
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