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The next installment of Street View comes to the 3,000 vertical feet of Yosemite's El Capitan.
For more than 25 years, the Bandaloop dance troupe has performed on high-altitude sideways stages, from Seattle’s Space Needle to skyscrapers in South Korea. This June, they took their act to the granite walls of the Yosemite backcountry. Here, a quartet rehearses on the flanks of 8,500-foot Mount Watkins.
Beginning this June 16, six dancers and a nine-person support crew headed into Yosemite’s wilderness for ten days of hiking and pirouetting.
The country's Sandinista government has cut a deal with a reclusive Chinese businessman willing to spend $50 billion on a larger-than-life transport waterway. There are a few unanswered questions, starting with whether Nicaraguans really want it and how much priceless habitat would be wrecked. Traveling the proposed route by motorcycle, boat, and boots, the author hunts for answers.
Fast food chain marketing healthy lifestyle
Day before Denmark releases anti-doping report
The Nature Conservancy is experimenting with innovative strategies to beat back invasive weeds in one of the country’s biodiversity hotspots.
An overview of the weather and climate patterns contributing to the dry conditions
Few people in Texas know of the Devil's River, and fewer have ventured into the most remote river in the state. Down the Devil follows the Texas-born musical duo of Jamestown Revival, the crew from The Noble Lab and Huckberry as they dropped their kayaks, fishing gear and camping equipment…
unReal, a new film from Teton Gravity Research and Anthill Films, aims to transport viewers to a place beyond the real world into the imagination of some of the best mountain bikers on the planet. The unReal world tour kicks…
Multicity event aimed at preventing childhood drowning
Ag Department notes “substantial challenges” to fire budget
The famous rock climber put away the trad gear for a research project with UC Berkeley on the California coast in which he pulled samples from the 700-year-old trunk of a giant redwood
A group of eccentric engineers flocked to a dried-up lakebed in California to race for the championship title of a 117-year-old sport you’ve never heard of
Chad Brown put down a gun and picked up a fly-fishing rod. The Navy veteran turned gear designer now wants kids and vets to heal each other on the great American waters that saved his life.
PTSD survivor and U.S. Navy veteran turned gear designer Chad Brown has a passion for fly fishing. He says it's his medicine, and now he wants inner-city youth and fellow vets to experience the sport's healing power for themselves.
American downhiller coasts to victory
SUPs are a great way to explore your nearest lake or coastline. Just don’t get caught off guard when the tides change.
To ski the world’s highest and most remote peaks, O’Neill starts her days many hours before the sun comes up
What happens when we start a fire and we can't contain it?
The risks are worth it to show my kids one of the wildest places on the planet
Nearly 50 percent of voters oppose hosting the games
Borneo tribes say stunt was disrespectful
Olympic cyclists Taylor and Davis Phinney have dealt with intense pressure, a near career-ending crash and a life-altering disease. Hear more about how they learned to embrace adversity in this short film from Lululemon.
Faces scrutiny in light of doping claims against coach Alberto Salazar
Will advise park service on zero-landfill practices
Climbing competition was part of the GoPro Mountain Games
Universal Pictures on Thursday released the official trailer for ‘Everest,’ an upcoming film based on the ill-fated 1996 climbing expeditions in which eight climbers died.
For World Oceans Day 2015, the tech giant is sharing 40 new 360-degree underwater panoramas
Episode 5 of Mind the Gap: The Making of unReal takes us to the Coast Gravity Park on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast with Brett Rheeder. For this segment, the crew goes nocturnal and works through the night to film Rheeder under the lights. Lack of sleep and…
This short clip from Ray-Ban and Korduroy.tv features Korduroy founder Cyrus Sutton talking about tapping into creativity and his decision to pursue the “new American Dream.”…
Through the Guides is a short form documentary film from The Noble Lab about those guides that show us how to read water, catch more fish, and love the places fishing takes us. Every guide has a story beyond their last trip and latest fishing report that is rarely seen.
Last winter, the free climber teamed up with Tommy Caldwell to make history by ascending El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in 19 days. Their secret sauce? Night climbing and gear they could trust.
Every year, an elite group of racers gathers in the small Northern California town of Arcata. They’re not runners. They’re not cyclists. They’re not drivers. They’re much stranger than that. Their competition: the Kinetic Grand Championship, a grueling three-day, 42-mile schlep over sand, water, mud, and pavement. Their steeds: bizarre amphibious human-powered vehicles. So sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the wild, crazy ride.
