Adventure
ArchiveThe Revenue Cutter Thomas Corwin, in which John Muir sailed as part of an Arctic research trip. Photo: Frank H. Nowell In July 1879, 33 Navy men set sail for the North Pole aboard the U.S.S. Jeannette Arctic expedition. That…
Make sure to bring these emergency items on your next camping or hiking trip
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dfjn3YNZf0Y%3Frel%3D0 If Japanese climber Tomoko Ogawa looks like she's been practicing the problem in the video above for years, it's because, well, she has. Ogawa, 34, starting working Catharsis, a V14 in Shiobara, Japan, three years ago. At the time, no woman had ever climbed a boulder problem harder than…
Over the past five years, Google has taken its Street View maps to 43 countries, deploying cars, trikes, snowmobiles, and even a submersible to map 360-degree panoramas of the world around us. In June, the company announced a new initiative to bring the same seamless experience into the backcountry in a bid to create the world’s most amazing trail maps.
New tiger-protection mandate will change tourism
Guilty of failing to predict a deadly 2009 earthquake
Still can't wrap your head around all the doping escapades detailed in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's Reasoned Decision? Tonight's nationwide debut of The Levi Effect, a documentary about American cyclist Levi Leipheimer, should lend more insight. Leipheimer's testimony about his own and Armstrong's…
Freya's blog. Screenshot: FreyaHoffmeister.com The patchwork of multi-colored, multi-sized sponsor logos; the bold orange, yellow, and incredibly small, white text littered against a black background; and the tiny photo thumbnails on Freya Hoffmeister's blog offer all of the…
When climbers Jarem Frye, Craig DeMartino, and Pete Davis met at the 2006 Extremity Games, an X Games-style event for amputee athletes, one of them proposed tackling a big wall…
Left: BLM land open to solar development before 2011; right: BLM's current 17 solar energy zone. Maps: NRDC Wind, solar, geothermal and other so-called green energy sources might not spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but they're far from benign. Ask any bird conservationist…
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Oddne Rasmussenn/Flickr The International Cycling Union has accepted the findings in the USADA report on…
At points in the video This Way: Episode 4, it looks like ice climber Will Gadd is fighting his way across the frozen belly of a large white poodle. He's almost perpendicular to the ground and swinging his pick at thick white overhanging…
Nike Lance Armstrong sign. Photo: Bump/Flickr Bicycling's Joe Lindsey has written two detailed articles on the business of being Lance Armstrong. Right now, business is not…
It’s that time of year again: The first snowflakes are falling; winter hats and gloves, jackets, boots and skis and snowboards are being pulled from the back of the closet. Ski season won’t be here for a few weeks unless you’re a diehard frost skier.
Aside from using an alias when hitting up Starbucks, big wave surfer Shane Dorian leaves the Maui airport just like anyone else. He hauls his own luggage—albeit 100 pounds of customized surfboards—and waits curbside for a pickup.
Julian Wilson. Photo: ASP/Kirstin Surfer Julian Wilson won his first ASP event after scoring big during the final seconds of the Rip Curl Pro Portugal, leaving his competitor Gabriel Medina stunned and…
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 geoengineering, the ugly side of the Olympics, and nutrition label.
Were "duped" into lending Russ George instrument buoys
Photo: Phil Beckman/PB Creative Last week the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) brought its biannual World Summit to Santa Fe. In addition to test-riding some sweet 29er bikes from Specialized, Yeti, and Santa Cruz, I got to sit in on a bunch of brainstorming sessions…
Velopresso, the ultimate café cruiser. With the crush of bad news about EPO and testosterone and blood doping in the last week, we're thrilled to bring you an uplifting story about bikes and everybody's favorite performance-enhancing substance: caffeine. Amos Reid and Lasse Oiva, design students…
DANIEL ALVAREZ: Florida resident Alvarez is currently midway through an epic paddling trip from Minnesota to Florida (“The Overachievers“), enabled both by our money—Alvarez won Outside's inaugural $10,000 Adventure Grant—and by the kindness of a few strangers. We reached out to one, Janet Hansen,…
When Frederick Reimers wrote the 2012 Adventure Bucket List for Outside this past spring, he made sure to include neck-dusting runs in the dark at Niseko, the snowiest ski resort in Hokkaido, Japan. Here's a bit…
Katie Heaney learns that rivers really don't care how many times you've kayaked on a lake
Commercial flight was diverted to help search for missing boat
Bikini Atoll, a tiny ring of islands halfway between Hawaii and Australia, is a world-class diving destination and home to one of the Pacific's last great fishing grounds. So where are all the tourists? Welcome to heaven on earth, where the vestiges of hell lie just below the surface.
Lance Armstrong. Photo: Andersbjorkhaug/Flickr On Tuesday, the Livestrong Foundation announced Lance Armstrong’s decision to step down as chairman. “I have had the great honor of…
For those that just can't get enough video of whitewater kayakers dropping off waterfalls, here's another dose. Cinematographer Tim Loubier, of Reel Water Productions, recently released Water, a huck-heavy short documenting Todd Wells, Brendan Wells,…
Versatile. That’s how our East Coast tester described Brooks Range's four-way stretch, water-resistant Isto softshell jacket. He spent 100 days last winter and spring skiing, hiking and ciimbing in snow, rain, slush, sleet, freezing rain, some more snow, sun, blue skies, and any other…
Nike terminates contract: cyclist 'misled us for a decade'
Red line represents the West Ridge route, Spring 2012. Illustration: Grayson Schaffer On Wednesday morning around 10:00 EST, Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki made it clear that he plans to push on toward the summit of Mount Everest. “Then left towards…
Nobukazu Kuriki on Everest. Photo: Nobukazu Kuriki/Facebook On Tuesday, Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki’s Twitter account said he set off for Camp IV in his attempt to summit…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MT1DhcQg0Os On Sunday, Felix Baumgartner successfully completed a jump from 24 miles above the earth, free falling at a speed of more than 700 miles per hour before landing safely on the ground. In case you missed the livestream of his feat, here are…
Leaves of three, leave it be. Photo: Shutterstock When I was in seventh grade, my parents took my six siblings and I out of school for a late spring vacation to the East Coast. We camped along the way and eventually…
Lees Ferry is the only place within Glen Canyon where visitors can drive to the Colorado River in over 700 miles of Canyon Country, right up to the first "rapid" in the Grand Canyon. Here at the very start of the Grand Canyon, adventurous river runners launch…
'Fertilization' in violation of two U.N. conventions
On solid ground. Photo: Red Bull On Sunday at 11:31 a.m. EST, 43-year-old Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner lifted off in a capsule attached to a 55-story balloon made of plastic one-tenth the…
Baumgartner is on his way to a record-breaking jump
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MrIxH6DToXQ UPDATE 2:30 EST: According to unofficial numbers from Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight and the highest freefall on Sunday when he jumped from roughly 28,000 feet above the earth and fell for four minutes and 20 seconds before landing safely…
Climber Leif Karlstrom comes clean about his illicit REI sponsorship. It all started when I was broke and in college. A climbing buddy came back from China with a bunch of knockoff REI gear. We returned it fraudulently to the store in Eugene, Oregon, which gave us cash. REI didn't…
Closing the book (we hope) on bike racing’s drug-fueled era of excess
Lance Armstrong. Photo: PoweriPics/Flickr “Twenty of the 21 podium finishers in the Tour de France from 1999 through 2005 have been directly tied to likely doping through admissions, sanctions, public investigations or exceeding the UCI hematocrit threshold. Of the 45 podium finishes during…
In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form magazine and newspaper articles, collecting them here and on Longreads and Twitter. This installment focuses on jumping out of space gondolas, terraforming Venus, and Google Earth.
Canus lupus. Photo: S.R. Maglione/Shutterstock In children’s literature, wolves pretty much always get a bad rap. Think Little Red Riding Hood, the three poor pigs, and pretty much every cute, furry, unsuspecting critter in Richard Scarry’s entire opus. In our house, we make a point…
Lance Armstrong's “zip the lips” gesture to cyclist Filippo Simeoni, who testified against Dr. Michele Ferrari. The United States Anti-Doping Agency's report on Lance Armstrong doesn’t just say he that doped. It says he was the ringleader…
Aurora Borealis as seen from Space. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory/Flickr On October 4 and 5, a coronal mass ejection from the sun sent an explosion of particles speeding toward earth. Three days later, those particles hit the earth's magnetic…
Snow gunning. Photo: Tim in Syndey/Flickr Pointing to the sacredness of the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, Arizona, a coalition of Native American tribes has been fighting the development and expansion of Arizona Snowbowl ski resort since 1979. It remains…
Here's the trailer to the third season of A Skier's Journey, a Web series by Arc'teryx and Gore-tex that begins on October 29. —Joe Spring@joespringfacebook.com/joespring.1…