Adventure
ArchiveTele boy Bennett goes big On Saturday evening at the base of Vail Mountain, Drummond—one of 8 top tele freestylers invited to participate in the “dueling trick session”—ratcheted up the awe factor once again, hucking a 70-foot gap and launching over a raging…
Greg Mortenson’s former right hand man explains his decision to split from his mentor. For more, read the story, “The Trials of Greg Mortenson.” Clip courtesy of Storm in the Tea Cups…
A college principal and the first female student to graduate from the Korphe school defend Mortenson. Read the story, “The Trials of Greg Mortenson.” From Storm in the Tea Cups…
Jimmy Chin gets caught in an avalanche and is taken for a 2,000-foot ride in Wyoming’s Teton Mountains.
Watch an exclusive clip of Laird Hamilton talking about Teahupoo. The full interview will air on Master Class this Sunday, February 12, at 10 PM Eastern on OWN. For more from Hamilton, check out this ESPN interview.
By Guest blogger Emily Brendler Shoff@ebshoff Exploring tidepools on Puako Beach (Emily Brendler Shoff) Traveling to Hawaii with children can seem daunting. The flights are long and can get expensive. Oceanfront lodging can cost you a bundle,…
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Electric snowmobile prototype by University of Wisconsin, Madison. Photo: Clean Snowmobile Challenge A typical mid-winter's day in Yellowstone National Park used to belie all notions you may harbor of a peaceful, quiet mountain hideaway. “People would go in and wait…
Duct Tape Then Beer skis epic powder in the sidecountry of Washington’s Mount Baker. Here’s how you can repeat the trip.
Duct Tape Then Beer sea kayaks between thousands of islands of Georgia’s coast. Here’s how you can repeat the trip.
Beach bliss, off the beaten path: San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua su casa @ Pelican Eyes Also on Groupon this week: a three-bedroom ski cabin “near” Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Admittedly, the Teton Springs Lodge & Spa isn’t in Wyoming—it’s…
The Bureau of Land Management is getting an earful over its tentative approval of a lease to Alton Coal Development LLC, a group of Florida investors that want to expand an existing coal mining operation into public lands close to Bryce Canyon…
Facial Landscapes, By Cory Richards By now, you've heard all about Cory Richards and his film Cold, which won big awards at Banff Mountain Film, Telluride…
In November, 2010, slackliner Andy Lewis rigged a 130-foot length of webbing between two sandstone cliffs outside of Moab, Utah, and walked it—out and back—with no safety harness or net. The line, dubbed Shakes McCoy, was the longest anyone had ever free-soloed. Lewis has soloed 44 highlines—swaying, bouncing…
The Dangers of Drugs via Shutterstock, Photographer Julien Tromeur The cycling world is collectively sighing this morning, some in relief, others in disgust. If you're like me, no matter how you feel about the two big…
Ski-in, ski-out/drive-in, drive out @ the GMD Another bonus: Kids who learn to ski at Alta are pretty much destined to become rippers. On one ride up Collins, we saw three or four kids launch off a small cliff at full speed on…
Riding the trainer sucks. It’s about as mindless as Fox News and as excruciating as a trip to the oral surgeon. But unless you’re a Cancellara doppelgänger who thrives in the cold and wet or a cycling snowbird who winters in Arizona,…
The first American woman to send 5.14d shares her five favorite pre-climb songs
National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis spouts off on the infamous bottle ban in Grand Canyon National Park, adapting to climate change, and a new rule that would give Homeland Security power over public land decisions on U.S. borders
Six nightmare scenarios that keep the best adventurers up at night
A couple of months ago, I caught up with 21-year-old pro surfer and youth activist Kyle Thiermann. Possibly the world's most upbeat environmentalist, Kyle's spent the past five years surfing his way through Indonesia, Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Australia, and Hawaii, shooting documentaries…
According to the Peltzman effect, helmets and seat belts cause people to ski, drive, and ride more recklessly, if only slightly. We don’t suggest you trash your lid, but consider these numbers.
BASE stands for “buildings, antennae, spans, and earth,” and jumpers parachute from these and other fixed objects—an incredibly risky pursuit that has claimed at least 180 lives since 1981. The world’s deadliest sport has no governing body, but the online magazine Blinc maintains the official BASE jumping fatality list (BFL), which assigns each dead jumper a B
Finnish freestyle skier AJ Kemppainen gives us an inside (literally) look at what it’s like to train in a country consumed by darkness for most of the winter.
Pat Keller, Issac Levinson, and Chris Gratsman paddle over Alabama’s 90-foot Noccalula Falls. Read True Tales Behind the Web’s Best (Worst) Moments for the behind-the-scenes story.
Dustin O’Brien catches a freak fall from the top of New Hampshire’s Tuckerman Ravine. Read True Tales Behind the Web’s Best (Worst) Moments for the behind-the-scenes story.