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

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

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

A brief history of the Games

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

An incredible timelapse from filmmakers Joel and Jesse Edwards

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

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

Next Exit is a new series from Teton Gravity Research and Freehub Magazine that highlights the best mountain bike communities on the planet.

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

A Hollywood stuntman who’s leapt out of planes for “Godzilla” and “Iron Man 3” will attempt his greatest, craziest feat yet—on live TV

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

The greatest thing about the Pacific Northwest is how much accessible adventure hides in the creases of its maps.

Laramy Ridley, Jason Tuberville, and Nathan Proctor prove that Arkansas is a whitewater mecca.

Butt sores, huge waves, and being in the middle of nowhere barely scratch the surface

Halfway around the world, fly-fishing scientists are unraveling the secret lives of giant steelhead—one cast at a time

This is what happens when you enlist fly-fishermen on a scientific quest to save one of the world's last great steelhead populations

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being poured into the burgeoning indoor climbing industry. Will the influx of cash help these gyms finally go mainstream?

The next evolution of topographic maps will be 3-D interactives that show how rivers change and landscapes erode with centimeter precision

This clip is a preview of an hour-long film that Australian newsmagazine Dateline will air on September 6 on Jason Motlagh's expedition through the Darien Gap, using footage shot by Motlagh and videographer Roger Arnold.

The Darién Gap is a lawless wilderness on the border of Colombia and Panama, teeming with everything from deadly snakes to antigovernment guerrillas. The region also sees a flow of migrants from Cuba, Africa, and Asia, whose desperation sends them on perilous journeys to the U.S. Jason Motlagh plunged in, risking robbery, kidnapping, and death to document one of the world’s most harrowing treks.

You can finally climb the oldest neighborhood in Los Angeles

Maine’s North Woods would make the perfect addition to the parks system—with mountains, streams, and stunning views. So what’s taking the government so long?

Alone, deep underwater inside a sunken ship, with only minutes to survive, Michael Proudfoot's survival story might be the most epic to date

Two North Carolina fishermen venture out to some of the state's most remote fishing holes.

A quarter century of digging under ice sees winners, losers, and an Irish billionaire teaming up with De Beers

The OARS founder and conservation icon was among the first to run non-motorized river trips down the Grand Canyon

When Cecil, the magnificent, 13-year old, black-mane lion was killed by an American dentist on an illegal trophy bow hunt last year, the world responded with shock and horror. Photographer Brent Stapelkamp, 38, was the last person to fit Cecil with a GPS satellite collar and to photograph him, just a month before he was killed.

Scouts Rickard Sjöberg and Stephan Dombaj explore a forgotten river in the jungles of Costa Rica

'Among Giants' is a short video that takes us deep into the coastal rainforests of Bellingham, Washington

'Living Refuge' is a series of upcoming short documentary films that highlight the work of biologists who study, manage, and protect the biodiversity and wilderness of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Insurers face $2.8 billion in claims, industry group says

No indulgent selfies or boring landscapes here. These Instagram accounts showcase the trail like you've never seen it before.

In Washington’s Enchantment Basin, you can have an epic poo with a view

Expert wingsuit flyer and pilot Rex Pemberton’s latest trick: turning himself into a human rocket

19-year-old Alex Mason brings slacklining to the the Hawaiin jungle in Slackladder, his most ambitious project to date.

Rider Sid Slotegraaf takes to some of the finest trails in Squamish, British Columbia, with Canadian XC world cup veteran Ricky Federau.

At just 19 years old, Alex Mason is one of the youngest phenoms in slacklining. He’s traversed the globe to compete, winning the Teva World Cup and the Slackline World Championships, all before he graduated high school. For his biggest project yet, he teamed up with his mentor, “Sketchy” Andy Lewis, and a Redbull film crew to trickline his way through the world’s first “slackladder” — a term coined by Redbull.

In 2015, Chuck Thompson set out on an epic rafting trip on the Klinaklini River, one of the most challenging, remote rivers in the world.

For years, Chuck Thompson dreamed of picking some random spot on the map of British Columbia and plunging in for an adventure. He got all he could handle and more on the Klinaklini River, a Class V rager that cuts through heavily forested wilderness north of Mount Waddington. In fact, he's lucky he got out alive.

'Douglas Tompkins: A Wild Legacy' is a film about the life, work, and passions of The North Face and Esprit co-founder Douglas Tompkins

Outside owner and founder Larry Burke takes on surfing in Costa Rica.

Some argue that so-called trail angels, who hand out 
food and water (and beer!) 
to weary through-hikers, 
are cheapening what should be a life-altering experience

Eric Jackson is the most decorated freestyle kayaker of all time, the founder of the biggest kayaking brand in the world, and the proud father of three. 

Sasquatch, Yeti, MoMo, Nape—the creature goes by different names around the world. A sort of pseudoscience has emerged to suss out the biology and behavior of this animal. Here’s what it says.