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Cyclists cite various reasons for shaving their legs, like making massages more comfortable and cleaning road rash easier. But will shaving make me faster?
Inskeep couldn’t find a map that covered his route, so he pasted two together. Photo: Nick Fountain/NPR When Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep started planning a 2,000-mile-long drive from Tunis, Tunisia, to Cairo, Egypt, he couldn’t find a map detailed enough to set…
Duggan becomes the national champion. Photo: Casey B. Gibson. Liquigas-Cannondale racer Timmy Duggan didn't enter last week's U.S. National Championship road race as a heavy favorite, but he proved that the odds don't always…
Meet April Vokey, the steelhead-catching British Columbia guide who is changing fly-fishing as we know it. More to come on Vokey in June's XX Factor.
If any skiers ever needed motivation for learning video, they have it. On Thursday, Teton Gravity Research announced a new online video contest with a grand prize of $100,000, called The CoLab. Athletes will upload their videos to tetongravity.com, users…
Professional climber; two-time junior national speed-climbing champion
A Q&A with an Outside in Aspen participant
Geology professor at Prescott College; winner of the 2011 Tour Divide, a 2,700-mile self-supported mountain-bike race along the Continental Divide
Professional backpacker, author of the Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gr1vdCmxE3k If you watched the Amgen Tour of California, you might have seen a catchy advertisement from Spy Optics that pitted outgoing U.S. national road racing champ Matthew Busche against freestyle rider Mike Montgomery. The ad starts with…
Big-wave stand-up paddleboarder; 10-time winner of The Molokai-to-Oahu Paddleboard Race
James Caird in surf. Photo: Frank Hurley In 1916, after losing his boat The Endurance on an expedition to Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton and five crew members hopped in a row…
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A Q&A with an Outside in Aspen participant
French filmmaker and artist Seb Montaz’s latest ode to the mountain life.
Did a judge in Florida just put an end to SeaWorld's famous killer whale shows? A ruling issued yesterday may change the way marine amusement parks work forever.
When 24-year-old Kilian Martin performs on a skateboard, some say he's dancing. The Spaniard's unique style is showcased in Kilian Martin: Altered Route, a new short by filmmaker Brett Novak. Martin began gymnastics at 10 years old, moved…
What would it be like to ride a rocket at super high speeds just above a really long road? That's the question Giacomo Miceli, a creative coder, computer scientist, and self-proclaimed entreprenerd from Rome, asked himself as a child. He decided to find out as…
Surfrider Beach in better days. Photo: Bill Parr Malibu’s Surfrider Beach should be a busy place tomorrow. A long-delayed restoration of the polluted Malibu Lagoon—the estuary that feeds the famed surf break—is finally scheduled to begin after a year of conflicts and court battles that…
Rafa Ortiz on Palouse Falls. Photo: Lucas Gilman/Red Bull Content Let’s get this out of the way. Tyler Bradt kayaked off Washington’s 189-foot Palouse Falls first. That was in 2009, and he stayed…
The sheer cliffs of basalt and tuff in central Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park make for ideal conditions for climbers of all skill levels.
You think climbing the world's highest peak is difficult? Try getting back to Kathmandu during heavy monsoons.
The second episode in Forge Motion Picture’s series of Souls and Water features paddler Melody Shapird paddling beautiful canyons in the southwest.
A Q&A with an Outside in Aspen participant
This past weekend, the final wave of climbers reached the top safely
There's no shortage of epic timelapse videos popping up on Vimeo, but few chronicle their shots in a way that allows you to learn something. Photographer Sean F. White gathered footage in 24 countries on all seven continents over the course of six years to…
To capture kayaker Evan Garcia dropping 70 feet off Outlet Falls, filmmaker Andy Maser and two friends set up four cameras for a day of shooting near White Salmon, Washington. The crew used a RED Scarlet, two Canon 7Ds,…
Screenshot from Surfer. Surfer magazine has turned its how-to series from Kelly Slater into an interactive online feature. The 11-time ASP champ offers advice on everything from…
Hesjedal takes the trophy in Milan. Photo: Garmin-Barracuda On Sunday, Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro d’Italia to become the first Canadian in history to stand atop a Grand Tour podium. The three-week race turned into a tense,…
The last wave of climbers this season reached the top, with no major mishaps reported
Serious concerns about a repeat of last weekend's deadly traffic have yet to materialize
A Q&A with an Outside in Aspen participant
As this video of a two-year-old catching his first wave illustrates, surfing isn't always about competition. Still, it would be nice for high school surfers to be able to compete in front of crowds in the same way basketball, football,…
Paraplegic Jeremy McGhee prepares to climb and ski a major backcountry route in California
Amid serious concerns about the possibility of another deadly traffic jam on Everest, like the one that killed four people last weekend, between 80 and 150 climbers headed for the summit this morning.
Chris Sharma. Photo: Mary Catherine O’Connor As we’ve reported before, California’s state parks are in the midst of a crisis that could result in many of them closing on July 1. While the initial list contained 70 parks, many of these have received at…
Sylvester Ayek survives by subsistence hunting and by turning his take into art. The Inupiat elder carves the ivory from walruses into jewelry and sculptures. In The Bone Carver, the Nome, Alaska, resident shares how he learned to hunt…
As astronauts spend more and more time in space, their bodies degenerate. Gravity doesn't exist as it does on earth, and so there isn't the same amount of resistance from weights. During space flight, astronauts experience a force of gravity one-millionth as strong as we experience on earth. In such…
Everest. Photo: Shutterstock Update: Italian climber Luigi Rampini, 69, was rescued around 4 p.m. local time on Wednesday when a group of five found him in stable condition with some signs of frostbite on his nose and fingers.
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Shot from an adjacent peak, the tiny lights moving toward the peak of Everest are the headlamps of climbers beginning their summit bid late in the evening on May 18th.
Falcon 9 lauch. Photo: SpaceX Yesterday, the same man that sent a rocket into space also had his company announce the release date for one of the most efficient electric cars on the market. Elon Musk, the 224th richest…
https://video.sky.com/embed/external/16234036 Gary Connery became the first man to jump out of a helicopter in a wingsuit and land safely without the aid of a parachute. The 42-year-old jumped from an elevation of 2,400 feet and flew in the air for 50 seconds at a…
And is it likely that another deadly traffic jam will form this weekend? Grayson Schaffer, who has living been at Base Camp for the past month, has the answers.