Adventure
ArchiveIn the ongoing series Chronicles: Making of Proximity we get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of the production team.
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
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
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
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
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
The Process is a beautiful short film from Jesse Hoffman that captures the power and tranquility of time spent in the mountains.
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
Zip lines, paddling circuits, flow tracks, and a ski-resort style business model are coming to a city near you
Inside the weirdly deep, surprisingly fraught field of fish pain
How six months rock climbing in Moab and around the west led Dan Dennis to the Olympic freestyle wrestling team
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.
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
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
Into the wild with Hollywood's homeless kids
And that's according to some of the very athletes they're trying so desperately to woo
Steve Storey in the Play Now series shreds a trail in Whistler, BC.
A brief history of the Games
Mission was simple: ski and hike 14ers all weekend without taking any time off from work.
Filmmaker Andreas Nilsson, of SuperStudio, spent ten days with friends exploring one of Sweden's most beautiful archipelagos
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 late-night punch line is getting older, and some say slower, but he has a habit of piling up medals anyway
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.
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.
'The Traverse' traces California poet Brian Laidlaw as he boulders through Burro Schmidt's Tunnel in the Mojave Desert.
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.
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.
The X-Wing Project has been 4 years in the making, and jump day has finally arrived.
An incredible timelapse from filmmakers Joel and Jesse Edwards
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.
The 6-foot wing Rex wears is built from aluminum and carbon fiber and equipped with two jet-fueled engines.
How did a North Carolina waterpark become ground zero for a mysterious water-borne amoeba that kills nearly every person it infects?
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
Coldhouse Collective's latest film follows British climber Leo Holding on the Mirror Wall in Greenland.
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.
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.
Laramy Ridley, Jason Tuberville, and Nathan Proctor prove that Arkansas is a whitewater mecca.
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.
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
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
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 is what happens when you enlist fly-fishermen on a scientific quest to save one of the world's last great steelhead populations
You can finally climb the oldest neighborhood in Los Angeles