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ArchiveDown is the warmest insulation. In fact, when you’re hiking or skinning, it can be too warm. Same with Primaloft. It’s fantastic when you reach the summit, when you’re belaying your partner, or riding a lift, but get your heart rate up, and you’ll…
In 1950, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. In Half-Safe, the latest story from The Atavist, James Nestor sets out to uncover Carlin's fate and fin
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 language, deadly mice, and the new wave of shamanism.
Perhaps the best skier of his generation discusses his dream ski trip, what it means to be “chamified,” and a recent mission to Bolivia
Christian Vande Velde atop the USAPC podium. Photo: Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda In a recent press conference at Aspen's Little Nell Hotel, organizers of the USA Pro Challenge announced the host cities and overall race course for the 2013…
Working on a tiger shark. Photo: Carl Meyer For 19 years, University of Hawaii scientist Carl Meyer has caught sharks up and down the Hawaiian archipelago, a…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8sjl73iyugs This week on Adventure Lab, we've featured dispatches on shark attacks, shark science, and shark conservation. Attitudes toward the marine predators have come a long way since 1934, when filmmakers recorded a shark being caught by a Goodyear Tires blimp near Fisher Island, Florida.
A basic 10-question checklist to make sure that you're focusing on the right things when you head out into the backcountry
We won the European Championship! And all we got was this crappy video.
Shark Net. Photo: Kip Evans Tagging technology now allows anyone with a computer or mobile device to follow the movements of great white sharks. Along the East Coast, people are tracking Mary Lee and Genie, two great whites. A group named…
Join us for a remarkable 30-day journey down the longest stretch of undammed river in the lower 48 states.
Great white shark. Photo: Yuri Arcurs/Shutterstock Most people know George Burgess as the kahuna of shark attacks. For more than 20 years, Burgess has overseen the…
I live in Florida. How can I train for a snowshoe race?
The latest episode of the Discovery Channel’s Curiosity covers the dangers skiers face with avalanches in Yellowstone.
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Shark fins. Photo: Elira/Shutterstock In 2000, a graduate student at the Imperial College of London named Shelley Clarke began using shark fin data from the auction houses of Hong Kong and the ports of Taiwan…
In December, the surf world once again descends on Oahu’s North Shore for the sport’s most prestigious event, the Pipe Masters, where competitors battle it out at the planet’s most famous—and deadliest—break. Here’s a look behind surfing’s biggest spectacle.
Component manufacturer SRAM gathered some of its biggest sponsored riders during the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross earlier this month and proved, once and for all, that cross racers are indeed more fun than roadies. The dancing is terrible, but that's…
The surfer was able to escape after the shark bit through his board and the side of his torso, pulling him beneath the water
Dane Jackson on the final rapid of the Big Water Enduro race. Photo: Tait Trautman Photography Kayaker Dane Jackson nabbed his second straight Whitewater Grand Prix title on Friday after winning the event's fifth…
Athletes battling it out on the Más O Menos Rapid of the Río Futaleufú. Photo: Eric Parker Photography Kayaker Dane Jackson won the fourth event—a multi-stage, derby-style boatercross event down the Rio Futaleufú in Chile—to take the overall men's lead…
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 monkeys, chemical warfare, and mad inventors.
The godfather of freeskiing discusses his contributions to the industry, how film is pushing the sport forward, and his mixed feelings about freeskiing’s induction into the Olympics
In 1973, Lowe Alpine was born in climber Greg Lowe’s garage. Greg and his brother Mike Lowe started the company to make the gear that Greg needed for alpine climbing, ice climbing, and expeditions that simply…
Annapurna. Photo: BrewBooks/Flickr French mountaineer Maurice Herzog, who led the first documented summit of an 8,000-meter peak,…
Wavejets are surfboards with an electronic propulsion system. Users wear a wrist controller with a button that turns the board on and off. The company markets the high-tech planks to individuals who want to spend more time surfing and…
Larry Olmsted holds the official record for "Most Pistes Skied in 8 Hours," but he knows his number—64—can be beaten. And he wants you to try.
A graceful ponytail helps ease the pains of a childhood long gone
In 1958, Sun Valley Idaho’s Ed Scott, an engineer and ski racer, invented the first tapered aluminum ski pole. The new aluminum pole replaced bamboo and steel, and launched Scott, which became a leading manufacturer of ski gear.
During expeditions to the world's most remote mountains, athletes often leave out the details about getting there. Not so with Xavier de Le Rue and the team from Mission Antarctic, who are on a month-long quest to snowboard new lines in Antarctica. After flying…
A high-profile accident is just the latest reason that climbers need to rethink the tools they've been using
Downtown Chicago. Photo: Transitized/Flickr Late at night on Friday November 30, Chicago’s Department of Transportation began construction on the city’s first protected two-way bike path with dedicated bike signals. They started on Dearborn…
Kayaking in Palau. Photo: Mark Downey Since 2006, Berkeley-based non-profit Ethical Traveler has compiled an annual list of the 10 best ethical vacation destinations for the coming year, and it just released its 2013 list this week.
Klee Benally and other activists protest the clear-cutting of forest and the use of sewage-effluent snow at Arizona Snowbowl.
Jason Fenton owns Halter's Cycles in Monmouth, New Jersey, a bike shop that opened in 1987 and admittedly stocks way more rigs than they need to so that customers have plenty of options. Since 2004, Fenton has been building and maintaining the trails at…
Whatever happened to an outdoorsman’s sacred right to exaggerate? In the age of digitized adventure, the fish that got away is gone forever.
Natural gas development has severely fragmented habitat in many parts of the country, including here, in Wyoming. In Part I of this series, Adventure Ethics interviewed Tom Butler, co-author of Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, a…
A mining town in Australia. Photo: Microstock Man/Shutterstock In Part I of this series, Adventure Ethics interviewed Tom Butler, co-author of Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, a new coffee table book by…
New rescue technology is emboldening surfers to take bigger risks than ever before. Which means epic rides—and wipeouts.
Whenever the seasons start to change, I feel like I have to shave my legs far more often to achieve the same results. What gives?