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ArchiveJon Krakauer Just curious about Pittman’s threat of libel action Question: Dear Jon, Thought your Outside article on Everest and your book were exceptional works. Could not put either down as…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild February 26, 1996 What other books do you recommend? How do I get published?…
Dr. Phil Maffetone February 15, 1996 I’m always hungry. How can I stop feeling hungry? I’d like to know more about this 40-30-30 diet…
Do any of your movies include telemark skiing? Q: Warren, I started telemarking a couple of years ago and I love it. Do any of your movies include segments on telemark…
Profile: Bill Pinkney By Mike Steere Photo: (We have these already) (VIDEO) (Clips TK. Where to link to them?) In his own words “Here I am a descendent of slaves making the Middle Passage not as cargo…
Jon Krakauer Why didn’t Fischer insist everyone use oxygen? Question: Jon, What are your opinions of Anatoli Boukreev’s decision to guide a team of inexperienced Indonesians to the summit of Everest this…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild February 19, 1996 How is his family doing? Where is the scholarship fund?…
Dr. Phil Maffetone February 15, 1996 I’m always hungry. How can I stop feeling hungry? I’d like to know more about this 40-30-30 diet…
Will you make a film devoted to wilderness skiing? Q: With the recent surge of popularity that backcountry skiing is enjoying, have you considered making a film solely devoted to wilderness…
(new header, TK) ON THE SHARP END/Do-er’s Profile by Mike Steere NAME: Bill Pinkney PHOTO: (TK) (VIDEO): (TK) TOP QUOTE: “Here I am a descendent of slaves making the Middle Passage not as cargo in the…
Jon Krakauer “Illusion of control” drives those risking their lives Question: Jon, I have just finished your book and I felt compelled to contact you and thank you for writing it. I…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild Paul Roberts Outside Online correspondent Paul Roberts is freelance writer specializing in outdoor sports and environmental politics. A novice climber, he has summited Kilimanjaro and several volcanoes in…
Dr. Phil Maffetone February 15, 1996 I’m always hungry. How can I stop feeling hungry? I’d like to know more about this 40-30-30 diet…
I want to see more telemark skiing in your movies Q: I’ve not seen one of your movies for a few years now because you have not been giving the sport…
Bob Howells on the ‘other’ National Parks Q&A with Bob Howells Writer Bob Howells answered your letters about the national parks. Must-stops on road trip out West Led astray?…
Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer responds to your questions Do you worry about upsetting the victims’ families? If you had it to do over again, how would…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild February 19, 1996 How is his family doing? Where is the scholarship fund?…
Dr. Phil Maffetone February 15, 1996 I’m always hungry. How can I stop feeling hungry? I’d like to know more about this 40-30-30 diet…
Marc Twight November 20, 1995 What tortures your soul and why do you write? Can you recommend a fun climb in North America? Are you really that angst-filled,…
The Courage to Dream Outside Online Profile: Bill Pinkney By Mike Steere In his own words “Here I am, a descendent of slaves, making the Middle…
Jon Krakauer Comments on leading abilities of expedition guides Question: Mr. Krakauer, I just wanted to comment on the Turning Point broadcast this past evening which revisited last year’s climb. I…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild February 19, 1996 How is his family doing? Where is the scholarship fund?…
Dr. Phil Maffetone February 15, 1996 I’m always hungry. How can I stop feeling hungry? I’d like to know more about this 40-30-30 diet…
How can I get started in your line of work? Q: How would a young skier break into your line of work? I’ve been skiing for 17 years, just graduated from…
Mountain rescue: life and death on a rescue team Excerpts from The Falling Season “The fact that I’m so close with the people on the team–you may have friends for fifteen years,…
Jon Krakauer Do you worry about upsetting the victims’ families? Question: I just finished reading your book. It was quite gripping; I can’t stop thinking about it. Do you grapple at all…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild February 19, 1996 How is his family doing? Where is the scholarship fund?…
Todd Skinner on top April 29, 1996 How did you eat and sleep for 60 days on a rock wall? Have you ever climbed at Index, Washington?…
 Dream Towns Letters to Mike Steere The author of Outside’s “Dream Towns” article opens his mail Editor’s note: Mike answered the best letters online. Letters may have…
Bob Howells on the ‘other’ National Parks Q&A with Bob about our national parks Expert forum, August 7-11, 1995 The Park Service has been scrutinized for its management of our national parks. We…
Jon Krakauer If you had it to do over again, how would you do it? Question: If you had it to do over again, would you choose to climb Everest on your…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild February 19, 1996 How is his family doing? Where is the scholarship fund?…
Todd Skinner on top April 29, 1996 How did you eat and sleep for 60 days on a rock wall? Have you ever climbed at Index, Washington?…
Is there a list of all your work? What early films inspired you? Q: Is there a list of all your feature-length films in one of your books (a filmography)? Do you have some old favorite…
Mountain rescue: life and death on a rescue team Author Hal Clifford, on why this story needed to be told “The summer of 1995 will be remembered as one of the most gruesome…
Get me in your next movie! Q: I want to know if you can personally get me a spot in the “Copper Drop” (100 skiers jumping off the cornice into Copper…
Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild February 19, 1996 How is his family doing? Where is the scholarship fund?…
Todd Skinner Profile: Todd Skinner By Jason Lathrop Outside Online “The goal then was really to climb those mountains for the fact that we could see them from…
Jon Krakauer How did you take notes while climbing Everest? Question: Jon, Once again fantastic writing. Despite my feeling that I had read enough about your trip from all the articles, I…
Q: Do you know of any great alpine backpacking destinations in Baja? Advice from the Experts For more wisdom from the Adventure Adviser, and the chance to ask your own questions, CLICK HERE.travel questions answered —Cory Whitney, Bar Harbor, Maine Adventure Adviser: A: A four-day backpacking trip up Baja’s…
News for Adventurous Travelers, December 1996 The Grenadian Spell It starts with a whiff of nutmeg on the tarmac. A few jungle pools and plates of lambie later, you may never go home. By Bob Howells Twelve degrees north latitude is…
Outside magazine, April 1999 I’ve Fallen, and I’m Pretending I Can’t Get Up In the perilous quest to produce state-of-the art wilderness medicine, our writer is just what the doctor ordered By Ken Kalfus It…
Outside magazine, January 1997 Letters: Haitian Spell Bob Shacochis’s “There Must Be a God In Haiti” (November) was the best thing I’ve read about the battered Caribbean nation. Having studied its music, dance, and a bit of voodoo, as well as sponsoring a…
Bodywork, April 1999 Push. Pull. Explode. Repeat. Old-fashioned exercise with a latter-day twist Dynamic calisthenics essentially takes classic moves — squats, lunges, push-ups — and modifies them to prep your joints, boost reaction time, and improve your balance. The idea is to…
Outside magazine, June 1996 Mountain Biking: Eat My Mascara! Champion downhiller Leigh Donovan’s unpopular crusade By Eric Hagerman Downhill mountain bikers are like butterflies. They show up every spring, flapping their wings, showing off their colors. This year Missy Giove, 1994…
Outside magazine, July 1997 Letters: Bad Intentions I am appalled that killer Chad McKittrick got off with such a light sentence (“The Killing of Wolf Number Ten,” May). At the very least, his restitution ought to include the cost of his capture,…
Dispatches, July 1998 Environment Divided We Fall? The Sierra Club’s debate over immigration may be just the beginning By Dirk Olin When it was finally announced that the Sierra Club’s rank and file had scuttled a proposal to…
Outside magazine, October 1997 Jane Goodall We’re all equal in her eyes By Michael Nichols I met Jane Goodall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1989. I was there to…
Outside magazine, October 1997 I Was a Prisoner of the Mudpeople It could have been the Fly-Fishians that got me. Or the Marathon Men. Or even the dread Golf-oids. But the fiendish Congregation of Dirtheads had already claimed my soul. From the cults…
News from the Field, December 1996 Wildlife: Hasta la Vista, Poultry Celebrities share their favorite recipes to aid a carnivorous friend By Mike Steere If the gray wolf knew of the bathos perpetrated in its name, the species might have boycotted…
Outside magazine, June 1994 Wildlife: Who’s Afraid of a Little Blood and Guts? One entrepreneur’s sticky plan to bring man and shark closer together By Brian Alexander Jon Cappella still believes his idea is a blue-chipper: Dump bucketfuls of fish innards…
Outside magazine, January 1998 Review Books Haunted by Waters By Miles Harvey THE STREAMLINED HOME GYM | ESSENTIALS | THE OTHER STUFF | BOOKS…
Outside magazine, March 1996 The Showroom: The Worthiest Steeds, Circa 1996 By Gordon Black, Alan Coté and Bob Howells GT Backwoods, $654 The Backwoods may have a low-end price, but don’t be fooled: This bike would be regarded a…
Outside magazine, May 1995 Volleyball: Side Out, Part Two: Trouble in the Big City By Todd Balf In the final preseason event held indoors last February at Madison Square Garden, Randy Stoklos and Adam Johnson easily ousted Karch Kiraly and Kent Steffes. For the…
Outside magazine, July 1999 The Diving Dig The Diving Dig | The Cartwheel | The Figure Four | Take the Stairs | The Crossover Dribble…
Outside magazine, September 1996 This Is Great! Drink a Little Beer, Play a Little Frisbee, and Save the World! All rise for Adam Werbach, the Sierra Club’s new 23-year-old president By Paul Keegan Adam has the munchies. “Oh yeah, sandwiches and soda…
Outside magazine, October 1996 It’s Just the Dog in Them Seven reasons why, the next time you venture outdoors, you might want to pack a pooch. Profiles in canine courage. WEELA Pit Bull, ten years old Mise-en-ScŠneSpring 1993, in…
Recent Press Releases Exclusive: Nando Parrado’s Miracle in the Andes in the May issue of Outside Christopher Keyes Becomes Editor of Outside Outside Magazine Announces 2006 Trip of the Year Awards Outside Magazine Partners with Kaos Entertainment Editor of Outside Magazine Departing Dennis Lewon…
Review, March 1997 Books: Paradise … for a Price By Miles Harvey Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things, by Leah Hager Cohen (Doubleday, $23). From a cafï near Boston, Leah Hager Cohen considers the glass…
Outside magazine, May 1996 The Good Life: Dan Gavere Is Away from His Desk The mobile art of making a living in the Big Inestimable By Paul Kvinta “I really need a cellular phone,” frets Dan Gavere, kayaker-snowboarder extraordinaire, from a pay…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Pleased to MEET YOU, Hope You Guess MY NAME With venom in their teeny hearts and malevolence in their jaws, the denizens of the great outdoors can’t wait to welcome you to the neighborhood By Katherine…
Outside magazine, June 1999 Borne-Back Blues Like the straight and narrow? Then forget about the Columbia River Highway. My Delta, Myself | A Little Good, Clean Lust in Utah |…
Outside magazine, August 1995 Books: Dances with Bigfoot By Miles Harvey The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture, by Lawrence Buell (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $35), and Walden: An Annotated Edition, edited by Walter…
Outside magazine, September 1997 Crude Awakening Torpedoed 55 years ago off central California, a once-forgotten tanker presents a sticky dilemma By Christopher Weir Warning: Your Kids May Be Listening to Yanni Sure, they figured…
Dispatches: News from the Field, November 1996 Business: Steeper, Deeper, Higher Profit Margins Merger mania sweeps the ski industry, raising the stakes, the expectations, and the specter of monopoly By Andrew Tilin One of the worst purchases Les Otten ever made…
 Outside magazine, January 1998 FIRST TRACKS Feeling a little wobbly on those teles? Get yourself in school. Whether you want to become immersed in all the intricacies of backcountry skiing or just get your feet damp, there are courses to fill whatever…
Outside magazine, September 1995 The Flatland’s Private Big Blue What’s so great about the Great Lakes? Big water, big winds, big wilderness. By Mike Steere Great Lakes people use statistics calculated to amaze–like the lakes’ six quadrillion gallons of water being enough…
The lures of the Southern Ocean are few. Seven-story avalanches of frigid sea. Blinding squalls of snow. Hull-peeling icebergs. There’s little sane reason to sail this territory, unless you’re a sportsman looking to shatter the round-the-world record — or are assigned to rescuing someone who foolishly thought he could.By…
As the sun sets on the gilded age of hot-air adventuring, a few fat cats look for ways—any which way—to keep pushing the envelope
Outside magazine, September 1998 Hey Neighbor First: Get to Know the Locals. Next: Dress to Blend In. And Finally: Seize Canada Fashion by Vicky McGarry, Photographs by Cathrine Wessel, Text by Susan Casey It’s tough to find on maps,…
Outside magazine, September 1999 Murder Most Fish They call him Flipperùbut America’s newspaper of record calls him a warm-blooded Ripper. Our man investigates. By Tim Cahill A recent New York Times story blasted dolphins right…
Outside magazine, November 1995 Paddling: Who Was That Fast Man? By Todd Balf (with Joe Glickman) At the start of the 715-mile Finlandia Clean Water Challenge, the world’s longest kayak race, South African Lee McGregor paddled into Lake Michigan from the Chicago shore at…
 Reaching the Untouched Wall: The Kok Shal Tau Climbing Expedition Summer 2000 A lot can happen en route from Utah to an untouched valley in China’s Kok Shal Tau range. Via dispatches from the trail, follow four young climbers half way around…
Dispatches, October 1998 Odysseys Extra Socks — Check. French Girlfriend — Check. Three-Year Supply of Kitty Litter — Um … Check. In one of history’s more audacious acts of voyaging, Reid Stowe is preparing to hoist his sails, slip his mooring, and…
Outside magazine, February 1996 Going to Extremes By Larry Burke Most sporting pursuits have a maximum mecca, a magnetic place somewhere on the globe boasting the kinds of challenging terrain or spectacular conditions that hard-core devotees can’t resist. For boardsailing, it’s Maui. For scuba…
Outside Magazine, March 1999 Our Business is People. Well, People and Trout. Actually, People and Trout and Some Ancillary High-Margin Items Like Neoprene Waders and Midges and the Like, Because, You Know, That’s Where the Real Profits…
Review, May 1997 Books: Adrift in the Flow By Miles Harvey Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry (Simon & Schuster, $28). This gripping account of the epic flood that killed at…
Family Vacations, Summer 1996 All You Need is Dirt Want to be a hero? Repeat Us. Fat tire, is good, fat tire is good… By Vincent Sanchez Our Favorite Places | The Hysterical Parent…
Outside magazine, September 1994 Books: The Marlboro Man’s Lament By Andrea Barrett Biting the Dust: The Wild Ride and Dark Romance of the Rodeo Cowboy and the American West, by Dirk Johnson (Simon & Schuster, $22). In the rodeo version of the American cowboy myth,…