The enthusiastic backer of bike racing saw highs and lows of the sport

Armstrong has agreed to a $5-million settlement in the federal case. It's a big fine, to be sure, but nowhere near the penalty the cyclist once faced.

Though he died in obscurity, the turn-of-the-century cyclist had a pioneering career on par with Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson. A new documentary and a major ad campaign featuring rap superstar Nas aim to finally make Major a household name.

Researchers studied 1,500 Rocky Mountain forests that had been burned by wildfires. They found that most of the woods aren't recovering after the blaze—and in some cases, they're not returning at all. The culprit? A warming planet.

We're calling it: these athletes will dominate the headlines for the next two months

The Bering Sea is one of the deadliest places on the planet. But for the fishermen who harvest crab there every winter, their work had steadily been getting safer—they hadn't lost a boat in a decade. That all changed on February 11, 2017, when the 110-foot Destination disappeared off the coast of Alaska with its six-man crew.

Brooklyn-based Brothers of Climbing explore New Mexico on a climbing road trip

Sarah Gerhardt, the first woman to surf Mavericks, on her long path from homelessness to the top of a monster wave

It’s All Yours features mountain athletes reflecting on why they stand up for national forests. 

The Seeker is a film that features hiker Atul Khandar taking a solo journey to Everest Base Camp.

With no official governing body, it’s up to athletes to prove their fastest-known-time claims. But as the stakes increase, substantiating these feats has become more complex than ever. For those who still intend to pursue an FKT, though, these guidelines will help.

It's no surprise that travel nursing makes for a great occupation if you like adventure.

Meet the climbing phenom who has smashed every climbing goal she sets

The world's highest peak will again be the focus of the climbing world

Amid the worst drought on record, the city has threatened to turn off the taps on its nearly 4 million residents. Our correspondent spent a week there while he could still get a shower.

What elite athletes wish they had known when they first started climbing

When two climbers were stranded near the summit of Nanga Parbat last winter, they sent out a desperate call on their satellite device. A hundred miles away, a Polish team of extraordinary climbers answered the call, prompting one of the most daring rescues in mountaineering history.

From surf apparel company Banks Journal, Mr. John Hook profiles the surf photographer and why he’s picked Hawaii to call home.

The floor of the Grand Canyon is unlike any other place on earth.

This film La Torche features professional surfers in the middle of the night at Pointe de la Torche in France.

She worked tirelessly with her husband to conserve one of the last wild places on earth. Since his tragic death, she's worked even harder.

Now you can be part of trail history by helping put signs up along America's often-overlooked (but perhaps most beautiful) thru-hike

The Land of Maybe features a trip to the Faroe Islands with climbers Cedar Wright, James Pearson, and Yuji Hirayama.

Mount Everest is increasingly defined by budget guiding companies—and more crowding than ever

Some of these vans have so many gorgeous wood panels and stainless steel fixtures, they make my town house look a little dumpy

Pro surfer turned humanitarian Jon Rose has helped millions of people around the world access clean water. Now he’s ready for his next big project.

From filmmaker Elia Saikaly, Everest - A Timelapse Film II is a collection of images he took while at Everest during milky way season.

Recent studies have arrived at the same blunt conclusion: the world’s last, big wildlands are disappearing at an alarming rate. Is there anything to be done?

Conservatives, liberals, 100,000 outraged public commenters—the interior secretary had trouble getting anyone behind his plan

For Santa Fe native and climber, Ben Hanna, the Bat Cave has been his proving ground for over 5 years.

No Man’s Land from filmmaker Davide Calafà documents a six-day backpacking journey through Iceland.

Pro climbers and guides share their perspectives on why an event like the Women's Climbing Festival matters to them and to the sport at large

This November, the North Face and Sherpas Cinemas dropped an edit called Imagination, a film influenced by J.P. Auclair.

Don't bet on it. A recent media frenzy that linked the missing aviator to bones recovered long ago on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro missed a crucial point. She probably wasn't anywhere near the place.

How the mysterious disappearance of a boat in the Bering Sea changed Alaskan fishing

'Your Winters Need You' highlights skier Caroline Gleich’s relationship with the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.

We couldn’t help but be enthralled by the tomahawks and yard sales in the Numinous crash edit.

Sherpa women aren’t encouraged to climb mountains. But that wasn't going to stop Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, who grew up in a Himalayan village with no electricity or running water but knew that she would one day summit Mount Everest. At 21, she stood on top of the world and then started a new quest: to become the first woman from her country to earn mountaineering's most elite title—an IFMGA.

Aje features skier Baker Boyd alongside Japan native and founder of Teton Bros Nori Suzuki finding endless stashes of snow.

At just 17 years old, Ashima is the best climber in the world. Even more improbable is the fact that she’s still (mostly) a normal teenager.

Over the past few decades, Hilaree has established herself as one of the best ski mountaineers in the world. Even more impressive? She isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

Watch to meet Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, the first female guide in Nepal to earn the coveted IFMGA certification.

The Doug Coombs Foundation was created to subsidize skiing and open up the sport to a broader audience. Now the Jackson, Wyoming–based organization finds itself on the front lines in the battle over undocumented workers.

A group of hired caretakers, called ridgerunners, are working to protect America’s favorite wilderness footpath from the hordes of people who walk it each year

For decades, park leaders have predicted that swarms of tourists could ruin public lands. Is anyone heeding their advice?

Meet five women making the sport more diverse

The Sea Wolf from filmmaker Ben Gulliver is a surf film more about the adventure than actually the surfing.

Mountain, from director Jennifer Peedom, analyzes the relationship between humans and mountains.

Corey Arnold photographs Alaska’s largest and most threatened salmon run—and the people who depend on it

Like many beautiful, accessible natural attractions, Arizona's Horseshoe Bend has become too popular for its own good. Is it too late to protect it from hordes of Instagram obsessives?

The Una River in Bosnia is known for its exceptional trout waters.

Singing isn’t the only thing that’s more fun in the rain. Here are ten other activities that are better when wet.

Pet waste has become a major pollutant, both outdoors and at home

'Of The West' from Orvis features silversmith Jillian Lukiwski sharing how her work is influenced by a life outside.

Camp Walker is a thirty-year-old fly guide in the south Florida, where the last thing they need is more fly guides.

In our feature on skier Adam Roberts, we take a look at what made him so special. Video courtesy of Jasper Gibson.

Measures in the federal government's new spending bill should help the Forest Service manage fires, but there's still more to be done.

Lawmakers didn't listen to the president’s call for less spending on land management and the environment—and put their foot down when it came to interior secretary Ryan Zinke’s reorganization plan, too

Ryan Zinke is using parts of an Obama administration–era idea that would've drastically changed the DOI. Now it's causing him trouble.

'The Fun Suffer Divide' chronicles the journey of three cyclists as they traverse a section of the Continental Divide Trail.

The Reluctant Enthusiasts explores humankind’s relationship with wild places through the words of Edward Abbey.

Because of drought and rising temperatures, wildfires in the West will grow so large and regular they could reshape entire forests

When extreme skier Adam Roberts was killed by an avalanche in the mountains of Washington State, some people wondered if he’d died on purpose. Christopher Solomon reconstructs a life in which athletic talent, fearlessness, and mental illness combined to create an unbearable reality.

In this film from 2015, '4 States 4 Days - Part 1' they tackle the first leg of their two-part journey through Virginia and West Virginia.

While dams are being decommissioned throughout the developed world, activists are descending on Albania to fight for the Vjosa River.

That fact was made painfully clear Sunday night when an autonomous Volvo XC90 hit and killed a woman who was walking her bike across the street in Tempe, Arizona

One man's quest to ski the equivalent of sea level to the summit of Everest and back. Twice. In 24 hours. On a single ski run.

This trailer for In The Starlight from filmmaker Mathieu Le Lay profiles astrophotographer Paul Zizka as he explores night skies from Greenland to Namibia.

Internal documents suggest Utah and federal officials failed to take into account Native concerns and input as they downsized the national monument

Study finds that high-elevation areas in the Himalaya are seeing wetter, more frequent slides

Could the short, goofy-looking busboy become the new king of hard soloing and speed climbing?

Tom “Pōhaku” Stone is a native Hawaiian who practices the art of hand-carving wooden surfboards.

She's one of the world's best cyclists, and she has her routine dialed

New "vision cards" issued by the department charged with overseeing public lands for recreation and extraction are heavy on the latter

A crew of skiers heads out to the hills around Chamonix, France for some night laps in this film Nocta II from Black Crows and Yucca Films.

Get ready for three days of sending in Bishop, California

Dissatisfied with the plateau in his riding, mountain biker Patrick 'Bengel' Rasche looks toward Kamchatka, Russia's looming volcanoes for inspiration.

And global warming could bring more of it to the surface

Devon O’Neil watched from a distance as Irma—one of the strongest storms to ever hit land—battered the Caribbean island of St. John with 200-mile-per-hour winds. Two months later, he returned to the place where he grew up to help clear the wreckage and process the destruction of his former home.

Alaska State Troopers called off a six-day search after finding the climbers' ropes on the Mendenhall Tower