52-year-old cyclist claims French title over all-comers

2,000-mile swim lands bird in New Zealand

Officials remove "save the ocean" glass

Research finds city living changes brain function

Nat Geo tags Martinez with $10,000 grant

Inside Floyd Landis’s clandestine campaign to torment his former boss

July 2011

It allows you to shoot first, focus later.

The World Bank gives Madagascar $52-million

Satellite photos reveal clearing, huts

Four cyclists vie for top spot

  The Emakumeen Bira doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But this hilly five-stage, four-day UCI-sanctioned race through Spanish Basque country, held annually since 1992, is one of the most important events in women’s professional cycling—the last big race before the Giro d’Italia Femminile, the Tour de France…

Dane Jackson leads junior world champs

Is it enough to save Patagonia?

Byliner.com becomes the Pandora of long reads

The lights go out across East Missoula

Six-month moratorium in place

Tim DeChristopher has to wait just a little longer to learn his fate. Yesterday, the Justice Department announced that DeChristopher, the Salt Lake City-based activist who disrupted a federal oil and gas auction in December 2008 by bidding $1.8 million on parcels of land in eastern Utah, would be sentenced…

Petzl recalls GriGri 2 after scares

Cameras catch Alex Pro in Vancouver

West Buttress Route on Denali After Everest, Denali was the climb I was most concerned about for the 7 Summits Climb for Alzheimer’s: Memories are Everything. You see, it’s complicated. Dedicating my Everest summit to my mom and all the Alzheimer’s moms out there will…

Levi celebrates his "biggest win."

City drains reservoir after late-night wizz.

Dobson, Gates win country's steepest race.

Company fools officials, but not the Larsons.

Cheaters would be kept from work as managers, mechanics.

Nude woman jumps into water with belugas.

Slopes at Squaw Valley and Mt. Bachelor to reopen July 2-4

Latest in protests over Arctic drilling

Alaskan dies soon after reaching the summit.

Late-night ride ends with 11 injured

Lorie Karnath, president of the Explorers Club

Admit that you’re taking your 10-month-old baby rafting and most people will look at you like that’s the craziest idea they’ve ever heard. And between the water and the wilderness, it can seem majorly daunting to pull off a DIY river trip with young children in tow. But…

(Noa Ginella on his way to 1st place in the SUP cross.) Last week I went to the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado, to standup paddleboard in whitewater rapids. It’s hard to explain why whitewater SUPing is so…

Tour De France Preview: Doping scandals or no doping scandals, we still love the Tour. Here's why you should, too.

The Barefoot Bandit is going to jail

On August 18, 1992, Chrisopher McCandless died alone in a bus in the Alaskan backcountry. Before his stay in the bus that others now visit as a pilgrimage, he journeyed all over North America. This gallery features some of the photos and notes from his ramblings. To read more notes and view more photos from Christopher McCandless, go to christophermccandless.info.

Before heading up to Alaska, Christopher McCandless spent time exploring the Western U.S. The following video clip highlights some of that journey, with narration courtesy of Hal Holbrook. For more about Christopher McCandless, check out the Back to the Wild DVD.

GC contender Soler airlifted with brain trauma

Machete used to protect swimmer

Ropeless ascent of world's first 5.13

North Face parent to buy boot maker

$25,000 in infrastructure money available

Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a. The Survival Guru, shows you how to build a survival fire.

Scientists predict the biggest Dead Zone ever.

Jake Chessum photographs the surfer for Outside's February 2008 cover.

Photographer Chris Buck shoots Wells Tower’s voyage across North Florida.

Mechanic Scott Haupert shows you what to pack before you hit the trails on your fat-tire steed. Frankie Flats Repair Service , Santa Fe, NM…

Mike Stewart of Wildrose Kennels offers some advice on mountain biking with your dog. For more videos about training an adventure dog, go to outsidek9.com.

Instruction and tools for navigating in the backcountry.

The Austrian pro snowboarder carves up the backcountry.

How to tie a trucker's hitch in a few easy steps.

To catch a fish, Walker resorts to some sketchy – and ineffective – methods.

Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a. The Survival Guru, shows you how to signal help without a mirror.

New rules about SPF can help you decide what to buy now.

Jeff Lipsky shoots the surf goddess for Outside's June cover.

It's huge. It's nasty. And it's a beast to get up. Guide Peter Whittaker talks about what it takes to get up Mt. Rainier.

There's nothing so sweet on Isla Pargo as the sugar cane Walker's discovered.

Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a The Survival Guru, tells you the essential items for your survival pack.

Tim Danielson ran 3:59.4 in 1966; now he's in jail.

The Friday Night Lights star fishes the Guadalupe River.

Read about the big-wave surfer here.

Kayaker Brad Ludden teaches young adults with cancer to take on whitewater.

Walker offers a blow-by-blow of slime nugget preparation.

Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a. The Survival Gure, shows you how to signal for help without a signal mirro.

Was it a not-so-cordial conversation, or witness tampering?

Friends, family, fellow dirtbags, and the man himself on one of the world's best aerialists

How to rig a raft for whitewater rafting…

The star of The River Why on fly fishing and guiding.

Mechanic Frank Sotomayor shows you what to look over before you go for a ride. Frankie Flats Repair Service, Santa Fe, NM…

Filmmaker Allison Otto came back with a highlight reel from Outside in Aspen weekend. smalldogonthego.com…

Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Ivo Ninov guide Dave Hahn on El Capitan.

Cyclist Forced off His Bike

Hi, my name is Katie and today I'm launching this blog, Raising Rippers, about bringing up adventurous, outdoor kids. Before our first daughter, Pippa (that's her below), was born, a friend of mine gave me the best parenting advice I’ve ever gotten: Start off as you mean to go on.

Photographer Jeff Lipsky shoots Torah Bright, Courtney Conlogue, Jenna Shoemaker, Sara Mancuso and Alex Puccio for our October issue.

Guide Chad Hepburn gives beginners tips on kayak selection.

Mechanic Scott Haupert shows you what to pack before you hit the black top on your racer. Frankie Flats Repair Service, Santa Fe, NM…

Outside's Grayson Schaffer, Abe Streep, Justin Nyberg and Stayton Bonner join Roaring Fork local Kara Armano for a bit of fishing. Music by…

Advice on where to have your subject look when filming.

Journalist and Army veteran Brian Mockenhaupt talks with Outside Adventure Film School about his experience with the Soldiers to the Summit climb of Nepal’s 20,075-foot Lobuche, which he wrote about in Outside‘s April issue.