Adventure
ArchiveThe one-week boot camp puts paying customers in the middle of the Indonesian jungle, then helps them survive the journey home
The biggest craze in cycling combines the popularity of distance hiking, gravel grinding, and vanlife. But for bikepacking disciples like Tom and Sarah Swallow, simplicity and solitude are the real rewards.
Indoor rolling on a bike trainer used to be a heinous chore. Now there's an app that turns it into a video game—and puts you on a fast track to aerobic fitness.
Watch to learn how Rebecca Rusch stays motivated and focused on those tough training rides.
Acrophobia gives context to how one person can go from feeling an insane amount of fear regarding high altitudes to a flow state where all the senses are heightened.
On the other side of the glossy sport are skilled craftsmen who keep the boats afloat. We visited one crowded workshop in the village of Greenport, New York, to see where the magic happens.
A 65-year-old Miami woman has been living in a tree on her property for the past decade. Now, she’s fighting with the county to stay put.
It’s like kite surfing, but with an octocopter
With over 7,000 meters of climbing, the heat and gradient make this mountain bike race incredibly challenging
Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington plan to climb the world’s sixth tallest mountain in record time. If they're successful, it could launch a whole new type of commercial mountaineering.
Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks is a new film that honors the history of skiing within some of America's most treasured places
The Reel Rock Film Tour is celebrating its 11th year in 2016, and with this lineup, it's a year for the ages.
Attaching a rope with handlebar to a powerful drone, they invented the new unofficial sport of #DroneSurfing.
When I arrived, I realized there are two major stories unfolding here on the windswept prairie of North Dakota. One of them, the one that has drawn the most media attention, plays out in rallies and hashtags, Facebook Live streams, and confrontations with pipeline security workers. The other is more difficult to see unless you visit the camp itself, where old friends and long estranged tribes have reunited, and people share songs, prayers, and stories as they articulate a future in which tribal lands are no longer national sacrifice zones and the zero-sum logic of industry is not taken for granted.
Track’s most outspoken runner sets his sights on the mountains
Filmmaker Karim Iliya spent more than a year and a half shooting drone footage in fourteen different countries to assemble this film, and the results are astounding.
This video gives an inside look at what it's like to spend a weekend camping out a Wayfarer van
Belgian backpacker Louis-Philippe Loncke has taken down Death Valley and just abandoned his attempt to thru-hike Australia’s Simpson Desert. But he’s not done yet.
Gracie has two jobs: To keep animals a safe distance away from visitors, and to teach visitors how to interact with animals.
On a bikepacking journey from Beijing to Istanbul, intrepid cyclists traverse the Pamir Highway in Tajikistan.
Tucked into the forests of Aachen, Germany lies a little spot very familiar to local rider Jan Kloke.
Deploying genetically modified mosquitoes to stop the spread of Zika is just the tip of the iceberg. Scientists are cooking up all kinds of DNA changes to insects and animals that could benefit humanity.
Deep in the heart of Italy's Aosta Valley lies a labyrinth of singletrack waiting to be ridden, and the team at SCOTT Sports is lucky to have such a gem within striking distance of their office
This video is part of a series from Moxy International called Where the Wind Blows that profiles female kiteboarders.
In some states, individuals who start forest fires, even accidentally, are facing multimillion-dollar fines
The Mongolia Bike Challenge may be the most demanding mountain-bike race on earth. Started in 2010 as a ten-day event with multiple stage lengths in excess of 100 miles, the route takes riders through remote and mountainous terrain teeming with wild horses and with little in the way of course marshals—it’s each racer’s responsibility to carry a GPS tracking device.
Following in the footsteps of Supervention in 2013, this sequel delves into the art of progression.
Police searching for people who destroyed Cape Kiwanda’s famous Duckbill
To get bit by one is to experience something like a gunshot wound. And they’re multiplying.
His journey from dirtbag to rock star, how to choose a climbing partner, and why bottled oxygen might be a performance-enhancing drug
When summer hits and waves flatten out, Evan Adamson, Tommy Witt, and some friends took to Lake Austin for a seemingly never ending wave.
As good as the fishing was, this trip was more about breaking away from life's breakneck pace and living in the moment, which is a lot easier to do in the mountains.
Two of our country's biggest issues, racism and climate change, have collided on a North Dakota reservation. This week, I loaded up my station wagon with water and supplies and drove down for a look at a historic demonstration that could shape the national dialogue going forward.
The government contractor's latest filing indicates that the future of wildfire fighting could involve artillery shells
The ocean is a dynamic and shifting energy that greatly impacts the makeup of our world, where whole undiscovered ecosystems still exist.
Twelve years after disappearing on a hike in western China, David Sneddon is being held captive to teach English in North Korea, according to a Japanese news report
In the ongoing series Chronicles: Making of Proximity we get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of the production team.
A pair from Utah trying to complete the first ascent of a steep face in the Karakoram mountain range were caught in a snowstorm last month and haven't been seen since
Everything a beginner needs to know to become a competent marksman
Last week, I flew down to Chile to spend a week at Ski Portillo, arguably South America’s most iconic ski area. Surrounded by tall Andean peaks, sitting next to the much-photographed Laguna del Inca, and home to the iconic Super C Couloir, it’s a bucket-list spot for many of us in North America who are not-so-patiently awaiting the return of winter.
A 20-year fight between energy and environmental interests over some of the country's last undammed rivers has finally come to a close
Outsiders plying thru-hikers with sodas and chicken wings might appall purists, but trail magic is here to stay—and that's a very good thing
The 12-year-old Swedish trekking tradition comes to the United States with the goal of getting more novice backpackers into the wilderness
Bike Batman was just an average-seeming guy in Seattle who liked to ride his bicycles. He had no inkling to become a vigilante who would face off against criminals while armed with little more than a smartphone, some spare time, and a pair of brass balls. But sometimes in life, the cape finds you.
When the sunlight grows rarer, the fish follow suit, but those fleeting instances of interaction make fishing all the more special
The tech company is launching apps, virtual tours, and online exhibits designed to virtually immerse you in our natural heritage
A stranger-than-fiction mystery in Norway has physicists scratching their heads
In the ongoing series 'Chronicles: Making of Proximity' we get a behind the scenes glimpse into the lives of the production team.
Chapter One, a new film about the origins and legacy of kiteboarding, seeks to establish the sport as a powerhouse in the action and adventure sports world
Kelly Slater is leading the charge to roll out a totally surfable wave pool. Will tech-savvy inventors beat him to it?
Team Rubicon began in 2010 with a unique dual mission: providing disaster relief and giving struggling American veterans a vital sense of purpose. The program has a reputation for ignoring best practices and obliterating red tape, and it has already disrupted the aid industry. Now founder Jake Wood wants to take on the Red Cross.
A small resort in Canada is offering equity stakes to help pay for mountain improvements
An utterly inept man gets lost in the West for 37 days. What happens next is, believe it or not, why America created its first national park.
The Fields is a short documentary that follows climber Andy White as he develops the bouldering scene in the Okanagan, an area just south of Kelowna, BC.
Oz Trails follows riders Joey Schusler and Rosara Joseph as they embark on an epic mountain biking adventure in the Natural State
The Process is a beautiful short film from Jesse Hoffman that captures the power and tranquility of time spent in the mountains.
One of the world's best climbers on the IOC's problematic approach to climbing—and why she's still excited for the sport to appear at the games for the first time
In the first episode of Chronicles: The Making of Proximity, Taylor Steele, Shane Dorian, and Albee Layer venture to the far reaches of Northern Europe
Inside the weirdly deep, surprisingly fraught field of fish pain
In this short film from Scott Sports, Trippin Fellaz set out in their sailboat, Annito, in search of the best singletrack on the Scottish Isles.
Zip lines, paddling circuits, flow tracks, and a ski-resort style business model are coming to a city near you
How six months rock climbing in Moab and around the west led Dan Dennis to the Olympic freestyle wrestling team
When his daughter developed a serious form of arthritis, Logan Ward watched her drop out of sports and lose confidence. The one place she could still move with ease was underwater, and he decided to push her boundaries with one of the world’s most high-risk sports: freediving.
Cosmo is a short film from Yeti and Talweg Creative that follows the crew from Alphonse Fishing Company as they explore one of the world's most renowned fishing spots
This trailer from Matchstick Productions will get you hyped for winter.
Earlier this year, Adventurer Patrick Sweeney set out to tackle the Italy Divide, an unsupported gravel race that runs over 500 miles down the spine of Italy with nearly 50,000 feet of climbing
This spring, Virginia-based photographers Chet Strange and Parker Michels-Boyce set up a photo booth at Mile 806 of the Appalachian Trail. Using a classic studio backdrop, they captured dozens of northbound thru-hikers as they made their way toward Cold Mountain in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. Strange and Michels-Boyce aimed to capture the variety of folks and personalities tackling one of America’s great trails. Here are 13 of our favorites.
Should we continue blazing trails into wild places? Kenneth Brower doesn't think so.
Suz Graham is an all around adventurer that participates in some incredibly raw sports. What most folks don't know is that she also values meditation, relaxation and recovery.
It's killed two people in the Carolinas this summer already
Here's the high-end climbing equipment you'll need to haul yourself up the side of a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan
The preeminent Colorado corporation is buying up ski resorts left and right. Many are hollering “Evil Empire!”, and say a monopoly would destroy the sport—but it's not all bad.
Into the wild with Hollywood's homeless kids
He was kidnapped, survived an assassination attempt, and joined the hunt for the most deadly terrorist. Meet the most interesting man alive.
The incredible story behind a journalist's terrifying journey through high-conflict jungle
Steve Storey in the Play Now series shreds a trail in Whistler, BC.
And that's according to some of the very athletes they're trying so desperately to woo