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

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?

Get ready for three days of sending in Bishop, California

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Record low snowfalls have made national news, but it came as no surprise for the characters in the End of Snow, from Day’s Edge Productions.

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

In this video from River Roots and Astral, A Women Knows Her Place takes an irreverent look at paddler Nouria Newman putting on a metaphorical clinic for her male counterparts who just happen to be freestyle world champion Dane Jackson and Rush Sturges on California’s Upper Cherry Creek.

On March 21, the Department of Interior will hold the largest auction of offshore leases in U.S. history, including all unleased areas on the Gulf of Mexico’s outer continental shelf. But do energy extractors actually want such land and waters?

From filmmaker Zane Clampett, The Peculiar Expedition of Thomas Snyder follows little-known snowboarder Thomas Snyder on his journey from his local hill in Minnesota to the steep backcountry lines of Montana. 

Shooting life above, below, and on the ocean

A legal complaint says the three leaders are in violation of a 20-year-old law and casts doubt on whether they have any authority at all

After nine years and two presidents, it's not big environmental groups with the best shot at defeating the pipeline—it's a bunch of well-organized locals.

How this rising star in the bouldering world overcame serious self-doubt to become one of the world’s best climbers

Ayesha McGowan plans to change that by racing in one of the whitest, highest-barrier sports on the planet

With an environmentally friendly firefighting gel called Strong Water

The two world-class alpinists haven’t been heard from since Monday afternoon, when they summited the Mendenhall Towers

From filmmaker Ben Page, The Frozen Road chronicles the Canadian Arctic segment of his bike ride around the world.

Now that it's all over, gold medalist Kikkan Randall gives us an inside look at the games' HQ

A new report suggests that the answer is no, which could impact hunted species across the U.S. and Canada

From Filmmaker Thomas Woodson and Outdoor Research, Bringing up Backcountry follows mountain guide Jessica Baker and professional skier Rachael Burks into the remote wilderness of Kimberley, British Columbia for a reflection on what it means to be a family in the backcountry. 

A new study has reignited the contentious debate about what led to the explorer's demise in 1912

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation works with local property owners and agencies to buy land and turn it over to the public

From filmmakers Alex D'Agostino and Ben Goertzen, Whiskey Facts follows a crew of Montana skiers into the backcountry for a day full of pillows and trips to the whiteroom.

Former pro Jon Rose was chasing the biggest swells in Sumatra when the 2009 earthquake hit, and he spent the next decade providing clean water in remote disaster zones. Last fall his Waves for Water crew was in Saint Croix when Hurricane Maria struck, so the team did what came naturally: got to work.

Temperatures were brutally low at this year’s running of the 300-mile competition, and one frostbitten competitor may lose his hands and feet. Is this just the price of playing a risky game, or does something need to change?

Bad weather, an unscheduled rescue, and a mutiny wrecked the chances of two teams hoping to make daring winter summits

The Lost Craftsmen, from Seeking Nirvana, highlights skiers Riley Leboe, Matt Margetts, Joe Schuster, and Mike Henituk as they explore Japan’s mythical powder stashes. 

From women’s collective And She’s Dope Too and Backcountry.com, Moksha highlights a group of mountain bikers in Nepal who want to grow the number of women in the sport. 

She was a pioneer for women in the industry

Faction Skis’ film This Is Home features pro skiers returning to their home mountains for some truly remarkable sessions. This video follows Duncan Adams in Montana, Utah, and Switzerland.

After months of speculation, the 36-year-old Australian officially announced today that 2018 will be his final year as a full-time competitor on the WSL World Tour

If successful, he'd be the first to do so. Sure, he's had to bail twice, but that won't stop him from trying again and again.

Very few things are more conducive to conversation—real, deep, true conversation—than long rides. In the saddle, we inevitably end up sharing memories about moments and people that have affected our lives. Photographer Tracy Chandler spent months capturing the shared scar stories of these California cyclists.

From the North Face, Middle of Somewhere follows snowboarders Jake Blauvent, Blake Paul, and Austin Smith as they venture deep into British Columbia’s backcountry.

Onetime U.S. Ski Team racer Lisa Ballard, 56, never abandoned her skis—or the idea of winning a world championship

In seasons with little snow, people make fewer trips to the mountains, which has a huge impact on local economies

From Wildland Media, Beyond Trails in the Atacama follows mountain biker Lorraine Blancher on a cycling trip through the Andes.

High-altitude alpinist Masha Gordon says it's time women claimed more peaks, and she has a plan to make it happen

Now that we know which mountains are on the Ikon and how much it costs, we wanted to figure out: Which is a better deal for skiers?

As a fellow Asian-American female rider, following her career over the past few years has been an exhilarating ride

Either learn to ride difficult passages of singletrack or simply walk them. But please stop ruining the challenges for everyone with cheater stones and shortcuts.

With back-to-back sends of 5.15-rated routes, the climber made history in 2017. And she's just getting started.

Ash Smith is the founder and race director of Trans Provence, an adventure bike race in the French Alps. Itinerology: The Workspace, from filmmaker Sam Needham, follows Smith as he tries to develop a technical, stunning, and rigorous course through France’s alpine landscapes.

Generations of mountaineers stopped at the small home in Pangboche for an audience with the humble, loving Buddhist

From filmmaker Jonathan Nimerfroh, Slurpee Waves portrays a chilly bluebird day on the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

From ski filmmakers, The Loners, Northeast Appeal features some of the gnarliest backcountry conditions found in Canada’s Chic-Choc Range.

Vanmoof Bike Company has a policy: if your bike is lost or stolen, they will either hunt it down for you or replace it for free. How? Each bike from Vanmoof has GPS technology, which allows a dedicated team to track down its location. In Bike Hunters: The One That Got Away, two of the company's bike hunters head to Casablanca to close a year-long case.

A permitting issue and public dispute between the mayor of Honolulu and World Surf League CEO Sophie Goldschmidt may have just killed surfing's most iconic event

Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall’s Olympic victory is a win for everyone

At 33 years old, she became the oldest woman to medal in alpine skiing—thanks to smart, restrained racing

Efforts to manage human waste in national parks have failed miserably. Now a creative scientist may have found an elegant remedy.

Wearing wild paisley shirts and bell-bottomed pants, smoking cigarettes and posing with rebellious insouciance, Bridwell and his partners created an utterly new image of the rock climber as anti-establishment biker-hippy-hardass, while sending routes harder and more terrifying than anything done before

David Grann’s New Yorker story about a doomed Antarctic adventurer was a spellbinding read. But as he—and Outside—seem to forget, other people had already done what Worsley was trying to pull off.

Tilin was a longtime Outside contributor and the author of The Doper Next Door

From the filmmakers at Ski The East, Promised Land: Mad River Ruckus highlights Mad River Glen having an all-time season.

This video from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort highlights skier Karl Fostvedt’s first place run in this year's Kings and Queens of Corbet’s competition.

As sea levels rise and megastorms become more frequent and intense, answering that question might be the key to preserving coastal life as we know it

Lies, damned lies, and "fantasy" White House budget proposals

From filmmaker Bernardo Giménez, Silence, chronicles climber Adam Ondra’s first ascent of the climbing route 'Silence'.

As rescuers worked to save seven climbers, television crews live-streamed everything. The question is: should they?

That’s 2 percent of overall GDP—putting it on par with other major economy-drivers (and larger than oil and mining).

From Level 1 Productions, this video is Laurent De Martin’s edit from the film Habit.

Navajo climber Len Necefer is using social media to remind us of our wild places' indigenous histories

From Tyax Adventures, Switchback Entertainment, and MBTA, and Norco Bicylces, Respect takes a critical look at backcountry mountain biking.

From filmmaker Justin Clifton and Chris Cresci, A Line In The Sand is an animated video which illustrates the value and power of public lands.

Students in the Extreme Polar Training course, a two-week freeze-fest held near the Arctic Circle on Canada's Baffin Island, learn how to live in Earth's coldest conditions. Still, nothing really prepares you for 72 hours of a sled-pulling, pathfinding ordeal on a skinny pair of skis.

A very serious look at the most fatal critters in the country

From Tamarack Media Company, Colossal follows their annual overlanding trip. This year they were outside of Nelson, British Columbia, in the Kootenai Mountains to explore its infinite backcountry.

Barking At the Door from Good Company Ski features skiers Lucas Wachs and Karl Fostvedt going huge in the backcountry.  

The stuff pro winter warriors say they can't ride without

From Krystle Wright and Outdoor Research, Where the Wild Things Play is an homage to all the wild, stoked, and adventurous women shredding the hills, rivers, and trails around the globe.