We were skeptical—until we learned the gruesome details from the scene of the attack

How a quest to get women included in the Mavericks surfing contest fueled a transformation that could impact all of sports.

‘Being Sherry McConkey’ profiles its namesake character in her pursuits as the founder of a nonprofit

In sharp contrast with today's administration, the 1970s were a time when our environment was seen as valuable and not a resource to be destroyed and turned into dollars

We all know what the dogs do—they run—but the person driving the sled has to get ready for a brutal challenge, too. The labor required to manage and train a team is like CrossFit on ice.

The latest film from Patagonia and filmmaker Jordan Manley, ‘Treeline’ explores an integral part of the skiing landscape—trees

Saying goodbye to the best skier the U.S. has ever seen

Cold temperatures didn't stop one Chicagoan from training

Think of the weather as your mood and the climate as your personality: your mood changes each day, whereas your personality is the sum of all those moods over the course of years

Mountain biker Pete Costain has a thirst for adventure. So it's only natural that his affinity for the outdoors was passed on to his kids.

And much of the sport’s innovation is thanks to Jeff Scott, a snowboarder turned pioneer of sit skiing

Two men died in one of the worst inbounds avalanches in decades. What happens now?

Setting an FKT is already badass. But what these Fastest Known Time award winners pulled off on the Appalachian Trail and Long Trail is downright awe-inspiring.

‘The Fire That Saved Sun Valley’ features a backcountry ski guide​​ as he makes peace with a natural disaster

Food is heavy. Don't carry it for miles while backpacking just to let something else eat it.

After three years of sold-out events for women-identified and non-binary people, Flash Foxy introduces an extension where men are welcome, too

Cody Townsend announced that he’ll attempt to ski all the lines laid out in ‘Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America’

If Ryan Levinson fell in the water, there would be no easy way for him to swim to safety. But he decided to live on a sailboat anyway.

After decades of film skiing, he caught the ski mountaineering bug

In this installment of Salomon’s ‘Freeski Dream Trip,’ skier Michael Zaretzke travels to Georgia with Stan Rey and Josh Daiek.

‘Climbing Giants,’ from Red Carpet Producciones, features runner Bárbara Koch summiting Misti and Chachani, two volcanoes in Peru

The little orca known as Scarlet is dead. Will her death be a turning point for the Northwest's endangered Southern Resident killer whales? Washington State governor Jay Inslee is proposing strong action.

Park rangers, wildland firefighters, and an EPA lawyer have all told me that they're worried they'll lose their jobs if they talk publicly about the shutdown

In 2018, thru-hiker Tyler Lau set out to be the first person of color to complete what’s known as the triple crown in one year

Twin brothers Ryan and Casey Higginbotham planned to paddle from Alaska to the U.S.-Mexico border, but when they got there, they decided to keep going

Photographer Ian Tuttle visited Death Valley last week and asked tourists and locals about how they see the desert park faring a month into the government shutdown

A slide off Kachina Peak—steep, rowdy terrain at the New Mexico ski resort—buried two men on Thursday

Take our advice and don't become a statistic

Everything you need to know about the international big-mountain competition

Yet it—along with its meteorologists—is struggling through the shutdown

Bomber tie-downs and secure hitches to have in your repertoire

From Vans, the Weird Waves series documents a group of surfers pursuing a variety of odd breaks from around the world.

This short video from David Lama features footage of the mountaineer on the first ascent of Lunag Ri, a 22,660-foot peak in the Himalayas

It's anything but an unpaid vacation, especially when your job is protecting the environment

From the Road West Traveled, ‘Abandoned’ highlights the diminishing amount of ski resorts in Colorado

Film to be based on the book about Doug Coombs written by Massachusetts author Rob Cocuzzo

In Red Desert, Wyoming, wildlife-biology student Anna Ortega​​​​​​​ is studying mule deer after their 150-mile migration

Some of the world's most passionate athletes are high pointers, climbers who will do anything to reach the tallest point in every state, county, or whatever other designation they can dream up. A lot of those peaks aren't so tall—like Delaware's 447.85-foot Ebright Azimuth—but there's plenty of challenge in this quest. Just ask John Mitchler, who had knocked off everything on his dream list except the tallest spot in a remote U.S. territory: Agrihan.

‘Closer,’ from rider Antti Autti and director Iisakki Kennila, is an ode to endless freeride pow laps

Hundreds of people from the Everglades to Yosemite have mobilized as part of a grassroots effort to rid national parks of refuse while federal employees remain furloughed

Plus, a new protocol will make it more difficult for other parks to close during the shutdown

The shutdown is hampering fire prevention efforts in the state, even while the President looks to disaster-relief funds for his wall

The initiative, led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is ambitious, but some in the outdoor industry argue it's the only hope for saving wild places from climate change

With affordable snow safety and touring clinics by day and music, events, and films at night, it's a winning formula

This summer at the southern terminus of the PCT, photographer Ian Tuttle asked a bunch of thru-hikers why they were hiking. Months later and 2,591 miles to the north, he found some of them again and asked what they’d learned about themselves. Turns out, six months in the wilderness is a pretty good crash course in philosophy.

‘Escape’ features Montreal-based DJ JaBig as he attempts to set the record for a continuous fixed-gear bike ride through Canada. 

Just days before Secretary Zinke left his post, the agency quietly proposed rules that would have it ignoring many Freedom of Information Act requests

And why you might just prefer a good old-fashioned website

Sender Films shares some of the strategies it used to push the limits of what’s possible in big-wall filmmaking

For decades Jeffrey Lendrum helicoptered up and rappelled down to aeries on cliff faces from Patagonia to Quebec, snatching unhatched raptors and selling them, investigators believe, to wealthy Middle Eastern falconers. This week in London, one of the most bizarre criminals in modern history goes on trial for the fourth time. Here is his story.

We know that cognitive function is impaired at high altitude, but it’s not entirely clear why

A man fell from Yosemite's Nevada Fall on Christmas Day

We reached out to outdoor expert Yong-Soo Chung, founder of Urban EDC Supply, to give us a few tips on how to sharpen a pocketknife

A longtime local's perspective on the mayhem

Our northernmost state is also the most vulnerable to climate change

Two hikers just set the only known times on the country's newest state-spanning trail system

This film from the BRASS Foundation​​​​​​​ provides some really helpful avalanche advice

That "organic litter" you just threw? It'll still be around in a year.

John Pascoe and his wife, Jan, had lived in their beautiful Napa home for 38 years when the Tubbs Fire arrived suddenly at their door in October 2017

How much until you break?

George Watson was on an exploratory scuba dive in a remote lake in the Peruvian Andes when everything that could go wrong suddenly did

Charlie Finlayson was on the ultimate climbing adventure with his dad, David, when a loose boulder forced him to make a daunting rescue

One weekend, Matthew Bryce headed to his favorite Scottish beach to surf. The conditions were perfect. Until they were deadly.

David McMahon and Sydnie Uemoto, young pilots for Mokulele Airlines, were just trying to log some hours flying between Oahu and the Big Island. Then the engines went out.

Kelsey Malin and a friend were chasing powder at Colorado’s Monarch Mountain resort when a wrong turn sent them into the wild for 52 frigid hours

We asked. They told. In-the-know locals divulge their secret powder lines, après breweries, and hidden hot springs.

Over 16,000 employees will go without pay and local communities will lose approximately $18 million per day

‘Photo Vagabond’ chronicles the ascent of photographer Dan Milner’s mountain-biking career

This video from education platform MasterClass features director Jimmy Chin shooting photos near Grand Teton National Park

For those of us chasing powder, here's what the meteorologists say winter likely has in store

This is the trailer for 'Range of Mystery,' which features three snowboarders as they search for a legendary peak in the Himalayas. 

Our favorite musher will be at the start line when the Last Great Race kicks off in Anchorage on March 2, 2019. In the first of a pre-race series of dispatches, she talks about the remote Alaskan lodge where she's training for the big event.

New emails reveal how the U.S. Forest Service caved to Dominion Energy in its quest to build a disruptive pipeline along the Appalachian Trail

‘Higher Truths’ follows skiers Chris Rubens and Cody Townsend on a journey to ski Mount Colangma in the Himalayas

Tim Klein and Jason Wells were weekend warriors. They were also two of the best climbers to ever ply their trade on Yosemite's most iconic wall. So the climbing world was stunned when they died on some of its easiest terrain.

The mountain has gotten even further out of reach for everyone except the very wealthiest. Meanwhile, the guiding industry is rife with corruption.

The residents of Atlantic City, Wyoming, are just fine being off the grid. But Continental Divide Trail thru-hikers are revitalizing the town in surprising ways.

Jon Rockwood started his own production company to capture all the talent the ski industry has to offer

Soul-sucking whiteouts and not enough food stymied the polar explorer’s best efforts

‘Expensive Membership,’ from editor Nick Garnham Wright, is a parody of Alex Honnold’s latest film, ‘Free Solo’