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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

'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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Meet five women making the sport more diverse

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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?

Shooting life above, below, and on the ocean

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

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.

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

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.

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