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Last fall, Gear Shed tester Andrew Forsthoefel set off on a momentous, sure-to-be-life-changing megatrip. He loaded up his backpack, laced his shoes, and walked out his back door in Chadd’s Ford, Pennslyvania, bound for the West Coast on foot. He’s not in it just to prove that he is…
This is shaping up to be one of the deadliest seasons on record, with 10 deaths so far and too many helicopter evacuations to count. Here’s a sneak peak at the doctors on the front lines of the world's highest clinic.
Screenshot from Powerbreather.de. A new form-fitting snorkel promises to eliminate the need to turn your head while swimming. It's called the Powerbreather, and it earned a finalist nod in the accessories categoy at the ISPOBrandnew Awards—a tradeshow…
Manta ray. Photo Shutterstock Most people are familiar with Aldo Leopold's thoughts on cascading environmental damage from Thinking Like a Mountain. When wolves were hunted out of forests in the American Southwest,…
The fact that Kobold's new Himalayan Edition watch is built with a few chunks of rock that, technically speaking, were removed illegally from Everest has caused a minor hubbub
With mounting dangers on the Hornbein Couloir, Conrad Anker pulls the plug on the West Ridge
Watch mountain biker Brandon Semenuk in slow motion, and check back when our August issue hits the stands. He’ll be featured doing an even more impressive trick in our Exposure section.
John John Florence wins 2012 Billabong Pro Rio. Photo: ASP/SCHOLTZ The last six months have been pretty good for 19-year-old surfer John John Florence. The Hawaiian took the 2011 Van Triple Crown Championship in December, won the Volcom Pipe…
Ignore what you've been told: Summer is the time to try something new
Jason Sikkila's fundraising page for the upcoming AIDS/LifeCycle event. On June 3, Jason Sikkila will mount his bicycle in San Francisco and start peddling south. Over the course of a week, he'll bike through Santa Cruz, Paso Robles, Ventura and a handful…
If you want to see the difference between night skies with and without light pollution, you can't do much better than the video above. The World at Night recently announced the winners of the…
When DON WATERS finally read the unpublished memoir given to him by his late father—an absentee figure he grew up resenting— he was shocked to learn that the old man hung with Greg Noll during surfing’s golden age in California. Sounds like grounds for a quest.
Mark your calendars for 3 p.m. EST on May 24. That's when Anthill Films will show their new mountain-biking documentary Strength in Numbers for free on Red Bull TV. The production company spent…
Several prominent forecasters have agreed that May 17, 18, and 19 will form the first legitimate summit window of spring 2012.
In October 2009 freeskier Angeli VanLaanen was diagnosed with Lyme disease, 14 years after she first contracted the illness. As a result of the late diagnosis, the 26-year-old former X-Games competitior has had a number of health issues. Now, she's working to make…
While filming a feature on surfer Josh Kerr for RUSTY, filmmaker Matt Kleiner decided to rummage through some of his scraps and put together a little clip. The resulting video, Light:…
The European design company Lunar has reinvented the stationary wheel. Last month, they began promoting the Vela, a training bike that doubles as art. Or, as they put it in the first sentence of their press release, “It might make you…
Sander Vandenbrouke has managed to make a 19-minute biking documentary that has nothing to do with the issues you might expect in a politically-motivated film about cycling. There are no mentions of climate change, or the cost of petrol, or fitness in The Brussels…
Chris Horner took control of the 2011 ATOC on Stage 4. Photo: Richard Masoner/Cyclelicious/Flickr The seventh edition of the Amgen Tour of California started yesterday in Santa Rosa with a thrilling stage that…
A summit push might still be possible—but it certainly won't be safe
ERIK WEIHENMAYER made headlines when he reached the top of the world's tallest mountain in 2002, and we recently included that expedition on our list of the greatest moments on Everest. But he wanted to remind us that such successes are often impossible without support.
The arrival of high-altitude helicopters on Mount Everest and other Nepalese peaks has transformed search-and-rescue and saved lives. But the choppers have also added to the chaos at the top of the world—and introduced a deadly new brand of danger.
British mountaineer Kenton Cool attempts to fulfill a long-lost pledge to bring his countryman's 1924 Olympic medal in alpinism—yes, alpinism—to the summit of Everest
This morning, we received the following dispatch from Grayson Schaffer at Base Camp: Earlier today, helicopter pilot and climber Simone Moro lifted off from Base Camp with filmmaker David Breashears riding shotgun. Moro circled up to 27,000 feet—well above the Eurocopter B3's recommended flight ceiling—allowing his passenger to snap clear…
Over the next 50 years, responsible companies are going to be forced to embrace the triple bottom line, or 3P, and consider not just profit, but also the value of their people and the value of our planet
The judging panel at last week's Global Big Wave Awards determined that Garrett McNamara's much-discussed wave in Portugal this past November was 78 feet, or one foot taller than Mike Parsons' record-holding monster. But the measurements of both waves are so crude as to mean absolutely nothing.
Courtesy of planet–earth.ca On May 10, Gizmodo posted this 122-megapixel picture they call the single highest resolution photo of earth. Not long ago, NASA made…
Updates from senior editor Grayson Schaffer, who we sent to Nepal about a month ago to cover this spring's climbing season on Everest, and who promises things are only going to get more interesting
YVON CHOUINARD, owner and founder of Patagonia, one of Outside's 50 best places to work, knows a thing or two about doing good business. Here, he shares some of what he's learned.
Dare to live a moral life—and encourage your kids to do the same—but remember that moral decisions aren't always clear-cut
The list of alpinists who've climbed all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen is exceedingly small. And it includes exactly one woman.
Long hauls in the saddle got you sore? These four yoga poses will stretch your trouble spots.
Sarah Outen was rowing somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean in 2009 when she decided to go on a longer journey. “I wanted more of it,” she said in a recent email. “And I wanted to…
A resort lights up. Photo: S. Borisov/Shutterstock The Golden Eagle Award is not, as it sounds, an accolade for Boy Scouts. It's an accolade for ski areas that give a hoot, so to speak, and are actively reducing their environmental impacts. The…
With dry weather, pervasive rockfall, and several Sherpa deaths, the start of the spring season on Everest has been an especially dangerous one. That's the bad news. The good news is that the weather is improving.
Jake Norton sends an update from Camp II. Here’s more on the status of the Everest climbing season.
Sea kayaking, via Shutterstock Let's start with the bad news. Less than half of Americans surveyed by the Outdoor Foundation participated in some form of outdoor recreation in 2011. But here's the good…
I'm burned out on pasta and trail mix. What easy-to-make food should I take backpacking this summer?
We're adding chemicals to our land and water supplies, pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and facing the planet's sixth extinction crisis. YVON CHOUINARD, owner and founder of Patagonia, wonders if we've borrowed more from nature than we can ever give back.
Photo: Walter Siegmund/Wikimedia Commons On Saturday, flash flooding on the Seti River destroyed a number of villages in Nepal's Kaski district (near Annapurna), claiming at least 26 lives, according to recent news reports. Around 40 others, however, are still…
Aydin Irmak knows his goal—to carry his beloved single speed to the summit—is highly improbable. Everyone at Base Camp has already told him as much. But the 46-year-old Turkish New Yorker refuses to call it quits.
Photo courtesy of New York City's Mayor's Office on Flickr Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced today that Citi paid $41 million to be the main sponsor of New York City's new bike share program. “The idea behind bike share is simple:…
Tomorrow, May 9, is the first annual Bike to School Day. It's all part of National Bike Month, and an estimated 1,000 schools are expected to participate around the country—far more kids than those who ride on a regular basis. According to the National Center for Safe…
Just how much material is really needed to build a chair that can stand up to every type of everyday stress? That's the question designers Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram are trying to answer by employing new technology from Audi and the butts of…