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Most alpinists call it a great year if they summit one 8,000-meter peak. Last spring, a Swiss mountaineer tried to knock off three.
Futuristic new submersibles are poised to take crews to earth’s greatest depths. It may get crowded down there.
Here are two water videos to kick off what looks to be a hot weekend across much of the U.S.. The first is from Shasta Boyz productions. It's the seventh of seven trailers leading up to their new film, Slippery When Wet. This time the featured athlete…
Inside Floyd Landis’s clandestine campaign to torment his former boss
 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…
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…
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…
Slopes at Squaw Valley and Mt. Bachelor to reopen July 2-4
(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…
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…
Tour De France Preview: Doping scandals or no doping scandals, we still love the Tour. Here's why you should, too.
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.
The Australian pro surfer rides 20-foot waves and boards down mountains.
Billy Meyer of Ancient Pathways shows you how to start a friction fire.
Photographer Jeff Lipsky shoots Torah Bright, Courtney Conlogue, Jenna Shoemaker, Sara Mancuso and Alex Puccio for our October issue.
Shannon Galpin and Nick Heil mountain bike through the Panjshir Valley during a recent fundraising effort for Galpin's nonprofit Mountain2Mountain. Footage is from the new short Waking Lions, Read the Story…
The 26 year-old Hawaiian surfs frigid waves and then heli-boards.
Ron Walline of Ancient Pathways demonstrates how to make a fire with flint and steel.
Why did Alex Puccio become so successful as a climber? A move to Boulder had something to do with it.
A look back at how Kelly Slater surfed to his 10th ASP World Tour victory.
The Swede carves long lines around outcrops on South Island slopes.
Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, a.k.a. The Survival Guru, shows you how to build a survival shelter with a tarp, sticks, and rope.
Thayer Walker arrives on Isla Pargo to see just how long he can survive.
Cold-water distance swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh looks to set another record by making his way across a glacial lake. By Grayson Schaffer…