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.

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

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

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.

The ocean is a dynamic and shifting energy that greatly impacts the makeup of our world, where whole undiscovered ecosystems still exist.

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.

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

When the sunlight grows rarer, the fish follow suit, but those fleeting instances of interaction make fishing all the more special

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

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.

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.

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

This trailer from Matchstick Productions will get you hyped for winter.

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

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

Should we continue blazing trails into wild places? Kenneth Brower doesn't think so.

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.

It's killed two people in the Carolinas this summer already

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.

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.

Here's the high-end climbing equipment you'll need to haul yourself up the side of a skyscraper in midtown Manhattan

The incredible story behind a journalist's terrifying journey through high-conflict jungle

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.

Steve Storey in the Play Now series shreds a trail in Whistler, BC.

A brief history of the Games

And that's according to some of the very athletes they're trying so desperately to woo

Filmmaker Andreas Nilsson, of SuperStudio, spent ten days with friends exploring one of Sweden's most beautiful archipelagos

Mission was simple: ski and hike 14ers all weekend without taking any time off from work.

While the nation freaks out over the presidential race, 
a climbing legend is quietly helping the industry become a powerful force

A movement to imbue land, rivers, and entire ecosystems with legal personhood status is gaining ground in the U.S.

Climbing Tormore Island with Iain Miller.

'The Traverse' traces California poet Brian Laidlaw as he boulders through Burro Schmidt's Tunnel in the Mojave Desert.

You’ve never seen a museum like this. The Wild Walk is the latest addition to the Wild Center, a museum which promotes the education of the natural history of the Adirondacks, in upstate New York.

A film about the beauty and powerful draw of water

Watch to learn about Ryan Lochte's training and strategy going into the 2016 Rio Olympics.

On July 30 at approximately 5:45 p.m. local time, Hollywood stuntman and skydiving luminary Luke Aikins jumped out of a Cessna Grand Caravan airplane 25,000 feet above Simi Valley, California. It was the first time in his 18,000-plus skydives that Aikins, 42, with a wife and young son, did not wear a parachute.

The late-night punch line is getting older, and some say slower, but he has a habit of piling up medals anyway

The best American mountain biker in a generation has had to overcome heartbreaking tragedy to reach his pinnacle

Welcome to the ninth annual Firefly Gathering, a four-day survival camp packed with pine-needle baskets, tomahawk throws, sinew glue, mycology crawls, and ecstatic drumming.

The X-Wing Project has been 4 years in the making, and jump day has finally arrived.

After 10 years of skydiving and 3,500 wingsuit jumps, Rex is ready to take it to the next level.

For every endeavor, it’s important to have a safety plan in place in case something goes wrong.

Even the most extreme athletes have fear.

An incredible timelapse from filmmakers Joel and Jesse Edwards

The 6-foot wing Rex wears is built from aluminum and carbon fiber and equipped with two jet-fueled engines.

Last year's un-powered glide tests in California allowed Rex to get comfortable with the wing and how it flies.

The sparsely populated desert outside of San Felipe, Baja is the perfect testing ground for the a X Wing Project.

A tribute to Vancouver's North Shore, featuring rider Stephen Matthews.

From years of research and safety concerns to pre-jump jitters and malfunctioning engines, these exclusive outtakes show how it all went down in Baja

How did a North Carolina waterpark become ground zero for a mysterious water-borne amoeba that kills nearly every person it infects?

Flying around like Marvel superhero Iron Man might not yet be possible. But as wingsuit flyer, pilot, and real-life human rocket Rex Pemberton demonstrated this past June in Mexico, it's no longer a sci-fi fantasy either.

Coldhouse Collective's latest film follows British climber Leo Holding on the Mirror Wall in Greenland.

Pilot Fedor Konyukhov touched down in Bonnie Rock, Australia, having circumnavigated the globe in record time

The Republican Party's justification for selling off public lands holds no water. Just ask President Reagan.

Magnetoreception could be a latent human sense, silent for millennia but accessible with training. Is it worth developing—or even possible?