A bee sting won't hurt you unless you're allergic—or so you thought until you disturbed a hive of African bees

The fight over Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments is just getting started

Before this weekend, everyone wondered: Is Shiffrin on track to become the best skier in history, or just the best in slalom and GS? Now we know.

During a life spent in dusty boots and blue jeans, Cindy Rosser has saddled, ridden, roped, shoveled, and seen it all. Writer Andrew Tilin asked her to recount some of her most powerful memories.

REI and the North Face have joined the Ventura-based gear maker in standing up for our public lands

When she swam the notorious strait in 1926, Ederle beat the times of all the men before her. By two hours. In a violent storm.

From KGB Productions, Westward follows a host of weird, wild, fascinating ski characters who do things their own way.

An in-depth look at the GOP's full-scale assault on our 640 million acres of public land

Two bipartisan bills show how the left and the right can converge on public land policy

Early in his political career, the interior secretary irked fellow Republicans with his willingness to stand up for conservation. Things have changed, and whether you love or hate his ideas, know this: he’s one of the few Trump-era cabinet secretaries with the juice to make things happen, and he’s got the boss’s back.

Donald Trump just reduced Bears Ears by nearly 85 percent. Here's what you're saying.

Get ready for lawsuits. The five tribal nations that supported the formation of the monument say they will respond with legal action and continued collaboration.

From filmmaker William Biname, Evasion follows rider Zander Geddes as he escapes Vancouver to find flow in the downhill riding at Whistler Bike Park.

From Happy Handgrenade Productions, Dogs of War follows fly fishing guide Lionel Song as he pursues the annual catfish migration which sends Okavango Delta in Africa into a frenzy.

We asked a recent Appalachian Trail north-bounder to detail the most essential items during his 2,190-mile journey

Researchers at the University of Montana found that nearby towns dependent on tourist dollars stand to lose millions

In Teton Gravity Research's film, Rogue Elements, Casey Brown and Cam Mccaul sent Corbet's Couloir - on bikes.

Red Bull and the aerialists at Soul Flyers linked up to pull off this insane maneuver—guiding their wingsuits into a plane's cargo hold.

New documents suggest that President Trump's Monday announcement will involve downsizing the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by nearly a million acres each

In the final installment of Stio’s A San Juan Story, skier and narrator Oliver Sutro takes us through his process of leaving Telluride which involves skiing all his bucket list lines. 

The association that manages the West's premier national trail just paid $1.6 million to prevent a property owner from putting up a fence 150 miles shy of the Canadian border

The Himalayan Database has long been considered the place to find stats about climbs on the region's big peaks. Now, for the first time, that data will be free to the public.

When you picked some mushrooms off the forest floor, you planned to make a nice risotto. But now you're in the hospital, fighting for your life.

Photographer Dennis Schmeltz spent this past July cruising along the icy fjords of Greenland aboard a Russian sailboat.

For mountain biker Patrick Noonan, he's been used to many solo rides at 5 A.M. Sometimes it's lonely, but most of the time he finds peace and serenity in the quiet.

Arguments against opening the last great American wilderness to oil companies tend to get emotional, but the best argument may be the cost

Being able to call for help from his watch helped saved John Zilles, but will wearable tech be a help or burden to search and rescue?

Filmmaker Adrien Mauduit will always remember October 2017. For three consecutive mornings, from October 17 to 19, he captured the sun rising over France's Jura Mountains to create this film Rise.

A team of scientists entered a glass bubble in the desert to live for two years cut off from society. Things didn't go as planned.

Our 40 favorite wild places, big ideas, foolhardy exploits, stiff drinks, trusty tools, and history-making, crazy-ass mofos

Or a movie, or a game of spoons. The alpine racer isn't dusting the competition by slacking off. She's putting in the work, and then she's taking a nap.

Before Amazon and big-box stores, mountain shops like Eastside Sports dotted the West. Now, it's one of the last survivors.

Putting together an emergency supply kit

Meet Ray Verseau, widely known as the world's best belayer. Not only has he created a career out of belaying, he's made it into a lifestyle.

This past fall, local Vermonter Joe Cruz and I designed and scouted a bikepacking loop weaving together a selection of dirt roads, flowy New England singletrack, and rugged historic woodland paths to create a majority off-tarmac circuit of some of the world’s best and most coveted craft beers. The result is the Green Mountain Gravel Growler—a 248-mile loop that links 13 breweries.

Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright are known for sending incredible routes in remote regions around the world.

In this ski film from Dakine, skiers Sammy Carlson, Karl Fostvedt, and Lucas Wachs traveled to Hakuba, Japan in search of one epic storm.

As mountain towns in the West struggle with the soaring cost of real estate, tiny Stowe, Vermont, remains an affordable bastion of outdoor living. It’s a place where ski bums aren’t an endangered species, good food and beer are plentiful, and everyone puts a premium on playing outside. Welcome home.

From filmmaker Colin Arisman and the Wilderness Awareness School, Remember Wilderness shares the tale of a relationship with wilderness that was once forgotten.

Over the course of 2016 and 2017 filmmaker, Michele Columbo shot this film The Light Within the Dolomites in Fassa and Gardena Valleys. 

Filmmaker Jason van Bruggen and his team from DOT DOT DASH spent May in Greenland at Swiss Camp Polar Research station with Dr. Konrad Steffen from WSL exploring the Arctic science that foreshadows and explains the impacts of our changing climate.

From skier, producer, and director Nikolai Schirmer with support from Black Crows, Shapes follows Schirmer and Flo Bastien as they explore the backcountry in Canada, France, and Norway. 

Congress got closer to drilling in the "crown jewel" Arctic refuge with legislation that just cleared the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

What does it take to hold down some of the toughest, most demanding professions around? We talked to a bunch of hard-working folks to find out.

At 82 years old, Dale "Greybeard" Sanders recently became the oldest person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.

For a picturesque Tibetan village, an increase in tourists represents a complicated past and an uncertain future

This month's massive government climate report sounds the alarm about the rising risk of wildfire. Will the Trump Administration listen?

You're alone in the open sea on a surfboard, blown far offshore by a strong wind. What does it feel like? What do you do?

From Scott Sports and their athletes, Sam Cohen and McKenna Peterson, Peak of Ill Repute follows the team on a three-week skiing expedition at the base of Alaska's Fairweather Range. 

Damming rivers may seem like a clean and easy solution for Albania and other energy-hungry countries. But the devil is in the details.

And why I can't live without personal projects—even if they don't mean anything to anyone else

A few weeks back we posted Faction's This Is Home. Though the footage was sweet and satisfying, there was a lingering hope that they may provide us with a little dessert. And did they ever.

From Stio, A San Juan Story follows a crew young skiers as they explore the endless opportunities surrounding the ski mecca of Telluride. 

From YETI and Talweg Creative, Sam follows Missouri duck hunter Steve Koehly and his dog Sam.

A new report card ranks the Mountain West based on access, recreation, and responsible energy development

The Seeking Nirvana series is back with this year's installment Road To Nowhere. This season, skiers Riley Leboe, Mike Henituk, Joe Schuster, Matt Margetts are on a road trip for ski and swell through Vancouver Island. 

In this film from Salomon, pro skiers Kalen Thorien and Cody Townsend take twenty-two-year-old Swedish skier Lovisa Rosengren to Kashmir, India.

Skier Tom Wallisch alongside filmmakers Sherpas Cinema and the North Face just took it up a notch with this segment 'Inspiration'.

A remote car accident, a broken ski, a tumble in the snow, and a slow descent into hypothermia

Holly "Cargo" Harrison has finally reached the U.S. on a 15,000-mile hike through South and North America

The decision to amend national monuments has roots in pro-energy, anti-conservation politics that has been simmering for 40 years

An A to Z guide to the ups and downs of the sport

When he set a new record up Wyoming’s Devils Tower last month, Robert Kelman confirmed what experts say about aging and athletics: use it or lose it

Follow Amy Martin and Erica Fareio as they traverse the Colorado River and reveal the allure of the canyons.

Zinke's strategic plan for the next four years shows no intention of addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our public lands

In buzkashi, Afghanistan’s violent and ancient national pastime, riders battle for control of an animal corpse that they carry toward a goal. Sixteen years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban, the sport is dominated by rival warlords who will do anything to maintain power in a turbulent country that once again is up for grabs.

The activist, singer, and writer died at her home in Arizona

From Salomon TV, Mica follows rising ski star Andrea Byrne along with Cody Townsend, Chris Rubens, and Leah Evans as they indulge Mica Heli Skiing's endless terrain.

When the San Juan's call, it's really tough not to answer it.

Armed with a bike, a cunning smile, and an understated talent for downhill, Richie Rude lets his riding do the talking for him.

Beckey, who has often been called the country’s ur-dirtbag—a climber who eschews riches to pursue climbing full-time—was widely recognized as North America’s most prolific mountaineer

You may soon be able to change your DNA to optimize performance in your favorite sport

He was the alpha male of the first pack to live in Oregon since 1947. For years, a state biologist tracked him, collared him, counted his pups, weighed him, photographed him, and protected him. But then the animal known as OR4 broke one too many rules.

Teens are breaking trail in the backcountry well before they can drink, vote, or even drive. Avalanche educators are hustling to get to them early.

A practical approach to making mass shootings less deadly

The More Than You Think series from Outdoor Gear Exchange, aims to highlight the backcountry offerings in New England showed off by the women who know it best.

On Friday, the President told Senator Orrin Hatch that he planned to downsize two Utah national monuments. Here's why nothing's likely to happen soon.

Who knew that it’s easy to find great backcountry skiing in Scotland? Nobody, because it isn’t. But that doesn’t stop a committed group of hard-asses from clicking their boots and heading into the mud, rain, and heather in search of stoke.

Dallas Seavey's current predicament shows how the sport's most visible event, wary of controversy, has closed in and tightened the rules. It should do the opposite.

After two failed attempts, the team of three ascended Nuptse's massive 7,000-foot wall to put up a new route on one of the Himalayas' most difficult mountains