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Archivehttps://www.mercedes-benz.tv/embed/1724/en The truth is, 38-year-old unicyclist Kris Holm has been around longer than video bike sensation Danny MacAskill. His videos piled up YouTube hits before the Scottish biker's first short went live. Holm pulls off some seriously impressive tricks in this latest video for, ahem,…
You can thank Taj Burrow's father for the video clip above. Burrow and crew shot a three part video series in Fiji after a family vacation he had planned fell apart. He describes the evolution of the trip at stabmag.com. Taj Burrow:…
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The swiss pilot and self-proclaimed Jetman flies above the Swiss Alps with a team of Breitling jets.
In our December issue, we feature Amy Purdy as one of the planet's most powerful innovators. Eleven years ago, Purdy lost her legs after getting…
A few months ago, National Geographic put a picture of swiss pilot and self-proclaimed jetman Yves Rossy on its cover. In the picture, Rossy is casually looking right while flying in a bright red suit under the cover of his carbon fiber wing—which…
By Guest Blogger Emily Brendler Shoff There’s still time before winter really sets in to log a few more miles on your mountain bike. Here in Telluride, we recently snuck in a late-season family ride on our favorite three-mile loop linking the paved in-town bike path to…
Is working closely with killer whales in a marine park dangerous for trainers? Our reporter travels to a courtroom in Florida to cover the controversial OSHA-SeaWorld hearing, the outcome of which could redefine SeaWorld’s Shamu shows.
The world is a playground of incredible places waiting to be experienced and cherished, places like the Coronado Islands, a small chain of deserted islands off the coast of Baja, Mexico. Recently some friends and I sailed to the islands for a few days of exploration and fun. We paddled…
Pro skiers Cody Townsend, Mark Amba, and the crew of Salomon Freeski TV hit up chest-deep powder at Washington’s Steven’s Pass.
Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker spent two months in Wyoming and Utah this fall climbing the United States's hardest offwidths—awkwardly sized, unpopular cracks that are too wide to fist jam but too narrow to chimney. In October, the pair established what is believed to be the world's most difficult offwidth…
Carl Pope, Courtesy of Sierra Club Carl Pope, the current chairman of the Sierra Club, announced he is stepping down to pursue other projects. Pope led the environmental non-profit for much of the…
Ben Stiller says “night mountain biking” reminded him of Apocolypse Now. But for me his hysterical description—”one of the most frightening experiences of my life,” complete with “a Lacross helmet with miner's lights” and that “CamelBak slurp thing”—is more reminiscent of Tom…
This past weekend, skier Jamie Pierre died in an avalanche in Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon. Known instabilities in the snowpack had been brushed aside by dozens of experienced skiers in the area that day, but these layers could persist for the whole season. How well can avalanche experts predict slides for the rest of the season based on these conditions?
The best environmental blogs, from one-sided political commentators to prolific aggregators and reporters breaking news.
Skier Jamie Pierre died this past weekend in a Utah avalanche and memorials and comments around the web have piled up in response. Warren Miller Entertainment put together this short tribute video to honor the 38-year-old athlete who…
Have kids, will heli-ski: the Cummings in AK [Dean Cummings] Last week I posted highlights from my interview with world champion extreme skier Dean Cummings, who lives in Valdez, Alaska, with his wife and two kids. Naturally you’d think that if…
In late September, a surveyor found a small dead bat lying on the ground at a 6,500-acre wind farm in Pennsylvania, prompting an indefinite shutdown of night operations. With demand for green energy on the rise, is pulling the plug on a wind farm over one dead bat the right call?
Up in the Pacific Northwest, Salomon Freeski TV hits the slopes in the snowiest month of the snowiest year in a decade.
Is working closely with killer whales in a marine park dangerous for trainers?
These innovators, charities, non-profits, and scientists are helping to make the world a better place.
David de Rothschild is paddling Brazil’s Xingu River with a totem pole to stop the proposed Belo Monte dam
Climber Jake Norton began tackling mountains at the age of 12 with an ascent of Mount Rainer. Since then, he has bagged that peak 98 times, climbed on six continents, and traveled to Everest six times. He has summited Everest three times. He helped discover Mallory's remains on Everest…
Senior editor Grayson Schaffer heads to Colorado’s C.S. Irwin Lodge for some cat skiing outside of the classic Crested Butte Mountain Resort. …
I've been in the office all week, choking on phglem from an early fall cold, cursing the onset of winter, wanting to get out and ride but not quite ready for the frigid temps. (My first test ride of the new Turner Sultan on Monday,…
The Solyndra solar debacle has some in Congress arguing that government needs to get out of the renewable-power business. Don’t tell that to the Marine Corps, the bravest new recruit in the clean-energy revolution.
The other morning I had breakfast with Dean Cummings, a veteran Alaska heli-ski guide and all around big mountain badass, who was coming through Santa Fe to promote his new line of skis, H20 Outdoor Gear. That Dean has lived to see 46 is no small feat.
Climber Aaron Tague taught Tom Cruise how to scale a climbing wall for a scene in the upcoming film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Word is spreading that Garrett McNamara surfed a record 90-foot wave off Portugal. In 2008, Mike Parsons surfed a wave estimated to be 70 feet at Cortes Bank.
The author and his young teammate complete a human-powered circumnavigation of a remote island in Nunavut