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I want to go ice skating on the lake near my house. How do I know if it’s safe?
Heavy snow destabilized conditions
Pipeline protest. Photo: Dogwood Initiative Amid an increasingly conservative Canadian government focused on exploiting the land’s resources, the country’s indigenous people have risen up through a grassroots protest movement called Idle No More. The Idle No More protest movement was…
In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form articles, collecting them here and on Longreads and Twitter. This installment focuses on science fiction, anesthesia, and the language of Jesus.
This past Sunday, Peter Mel won the Mavericks Invitational. The video embedded above offers a view of the big-wave contest as captured by his GoPro. —Joe Spring@joespring…
The U.S. Ski Team member and two-time Olympian discusses the Kitzbuhel, overcoming injury, and why downhillers get better as they get older
Photo: Spatial Information Design Lab The Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University has built an informative and easy-to-use…
Have you ever watched a three-year-old curling match while you had the flu?
The profile on Team ABC Boulder of 11-year-old climbing sensation Brooke Raboutou—which was last updated in December 2011—lists more than a few hard-to-grasp facts about the phenom. Raboutou first climbed at the age of one. She began climbing regularly at four or five years…
Photo: Flickr/Boklm Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled that an expansion plan for Homewood Mountain Resort on the shores of Lake Tahoe would not be allowed to move forward without further considering a scaled-back alternative with less environmental impact. The Sierra…
In which Katie Heaney discovers the Fountain of Youth, sort of
Enter the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River
On Monday, January 21, ThoseCrazyTexans uploaded a 19-second clip of aerial stunt pilot Jason Newburg flying a plane at roughly 200 miles per hour just a few feet above the ground and a few feet to the side…
Capsize test for the Alexandra Shackleton at Portland Marina, Dorset, U.K. Footage shot by Peter Wooldridge. Read our January 2013 story on the expedition.
Footage showing the Alexandra Shackleton preparing to depart on the Shackleton Epic Expedition, King George Island, Antarctica.
It's Seven Cups of Deceit time. Read all about it here.
On January 31 at the SIA Snowsports Show in Denver, Colorado, sports design company Giro will introduce its first soft-shell helmet. Using new impact absorbing materials, Giro promises that this helmet will provide riders with durability and protection across a wide range of impact…
Canyons Resort. Photo: Scott Markewitz Last week I was at Canyons Resort in Utah on official Outside business, and for the first time in months, I had to leave my children behind. Solo traveling has its pros and cons. On one hand, without little bodies pattering…
The author of The Fear Project (and Saltwater Buddha) shares what he learned about our most primal emotion during the many months he spent training for a go at Mavericks
What an ostrich sounds like. What an ostrich chick in an egg sounds like. Photo: Shutterstock You might know what an…
Capsize test for the Alexandra Shackleton at Portland Marina, Dorset, U.K. Footage shot by Peter Wooldridge. Read our January 2013 story on the expedition.
“As a professional climber I like to say that my gift in life is the ability to relentlessly beat my head against a wall. I live by the ethos that if you hit your head hard or long enough, it really feels good when you stop.” —…
What are the key differences between polo played on a regular field and polo played on the snow—and how does it affect the horses?
John Davis paddling in Congaree National Park. Photo: Susan Baycot Climate change, development, ranching, and oil and gas exploration tend to get a lot of ink when it comes to threats to wildlife in the Western United States. But wildlife corridors are another vital factor,…
Planning 46-plus ski days this winter
Needs an "adventurous female"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l9hOtNxAT08 Roughly 14 years after first competing, California native Peter Mel took home his first Mavericks Invitational victory in intermittent but powerful waves up to 30 feet.
This past Sunday, 43-year-old big-wave surfer Peter Mel nabbed his first victory in the Mavericks Invitational. Mel, a Santa Cruz native, has surfed the competition since the inaugural contest in 1999. The fabled break that creates…
On the night of January 11, 2013, during a dive off the Kona coast to view manta rays feeding on plankton, something strange happened. After the divers went down and lit up the water, a bottlenose dolphin slowly swam around them before aproaching…
Depending on where you live, the above video might make you think twice about putting water out for the birds. On January 17, a certain non-profit posted the video on their Facebook page with the following note: “During the drought in Colorado, a…
Before publishing Bill Gifford's story on Livestrong one year ago, we had no idea how dangerous it was to cross The Boss. Editorial director Alex Heard tells the inside story.
One of the most revered skiers in North America demystifies the life of a ski patroller, and talks about living and working at one of the best mountains on the planet and storms that dump eight feet in one go
https://www.oprah.com/common/omplayer_embed.html?article_id=41522 On Thursday, Sports Illustrated’s David Epstein published an interview with former Armstrong bike mechanic Mike Anderson. Anderson was fired after he found steroids while cleaning his boss’ apartment. Anderson said that Armstrong promised to…
Though I told myself I wouldn't do it, I watched the Lance Armstrong interview last night. It was like a bad pile-up on the highway or billows of black smoke from a distant fire—you know you shouldn't look, but it's tough not to get sucked in. I had a two-hour…
In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form articles, collecting them here and on Longreads and Twitter. This installment focuses on deep space flight, internal bleeding, and Internet girlfriends.
A team of adventurers plays a risky game of dress-up
A conversation with Tim Jarvis as he prepares to set out with a crew of five men to repeat Ernest Shackleton's 800-mile open-boat crossing of the South Atlantic
Wondering how to get through three hours of Lance Armstrong and Oprah looking deep into each others' eyes? We can help.
What things does a great climber keep in his gear room? Conrad Anker answers that question in the video embedded above, in which he offers Black Diamond a tour of his basement lair. There's plenty of new climbing equipment,…
The discovery of a potential new source of the Amazon River sparked a good old-fashioned explorers’ race to be the first to run it
While IOC strips Armstrong of bronze
Every morning for the past 17 years, Pete and Val have been swimming together at the local pool. Every year on June 12, they race—two laps, up and back. That's all. Two Laps was written and directed by Owen Trevor and shot at North Narrabeen Beach in Sydney, Australia, for…
Michael Ho surfing Second Reef Pipe. Photo: Billabong XXL/Rusty Russell In November of 2012, Surfer posted the 28 invitees to the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie…