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Drop your jaws and pack your bags. Outside's best adventure photography of the year. 

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White House responds with #ActOnClimate

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Choosing astronauts and testing new vehicles

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Runs 26:44.36 in the 10,000 meters at Prefontaine Classic

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Battle heating up over environmental impact

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Aussie woman says rules deter women from biking

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Fastest kid in the world clocks in at 1:35:02

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Likely fell 3,000 feet

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Performance bev made from mushrooms

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Okay, so, um, the machines are winning

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This year’s Red Bull King of the Air event took place in February at Capetown, South Africa’s Big Bay. 24 of the world’s best kiteboarders went head-to-head in a competition all about big air and style points. Watch as Kevin Langaree wins the title in this edit…

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Tourists ride the wire at St. Maarten beach

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Official clearance given for space flights

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Crime affects 3,000 cyclists

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In his new memoir, George Hincapie delves into the past, examining his relationship with Lance Armstrong and his own choice to take performance-enhancing drugs. In an extended interview, he explains why he still has hope for cycling.

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Norbu Tenzing Norgay is deeply familiar with Mt. Everest—his father famously made the first summit with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953. But alongside the beauty and adventure, there's real danger, especially for Sherpas. It's time to make a change.

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Risky rescue on ledge at 13,000 feet

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His pooch is "living the dream"

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Fight-or-flight mode: The Internet follows you everywhere, it's all your fault, and there's nowhere to hide. Maybe that's not a bad thing.

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Tune warns: "Don't touch your friend"

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Insists "human-caused" consensus is wrong

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Using results from 600-student personality survey

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Youngest female ever

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For Smithsonian's #ZooEnrichment

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Sometime in the near future, it’s almost certain that Vail Resorts will be operating a rebranded 7,500-acre mega resort in Park City. Will the Wasatch survive?

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Driver error, rear-end collisions most responsible for fatalities

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No brakes or steering wheel

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What's in a name? A lot, actually

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Wife killed husband, says court

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And records everything

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Meet HISTORY’s Mountain Men and the lands where they make their living.

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Dean Potter (aka The Dark Wizard) has been pushing the limits of the outdoor world for years. In his newest life challenege as a film director, Potter has created a short film about his dog Whisper, who often BASE jumps with Potter in a special compartment on…

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Dean Potter buzzed the ice cream social at Telluride Mountainfilm Festival on Saturday afternoon in a wingsuit. Without his dog Whisper along for the ride, Potter jumped out of a single-engine plane just above town and flew over main street before landing at the edge of…

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Scientists use solar panels to follow their path across the ocean

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A 2014 Telluride Mountainfilm Favorite. 90 year-old Frank Moore has always loved to fish. A WWII veteran and one of the many brave troops who landed on the beaches of Normandy. Mending the Line captures Moore’s incredible pursuit to return to Normandy seeking serenity in the waters where he witnessed…

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6,800-mile hike links DE to CA

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"Beekeeper commissioner" saves Upper West Side

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Hops Khumbu Icefall in heli

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Three missing as search continues

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New study says: Yep.

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Bad crash may end rider's season

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Jaw-dropping moves in Argentina

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He's not one to take up the spotlight, but the Team Garmin-Sharp rider turns heads anyway.

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The first county in the United States to outlaw fracking has an idea that could give environmentalists the upper hand—and deliver a major setback to big oil.

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Chelsea and Hillary Clinton have teamed up to confront a new challenge—protecting the heavily poached African elephant.

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Fast, furious, and under-the-radar, short track mountain bike racing offers something for everyone

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36,422 photos span 3.2 gigapixels

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Crowdsourcing post-fire photos

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CEO hasn't washed his in a year

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Rescued cub from the highway

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Natural Goods is a documentary that celebrates the ocean, wood and nature. It tells the story of Luca Bressan, a Italian designer who was born high up in the Dolomites but always dreamt of riding ocean waves, and made those dreams a reality when he started building his own surfboards. A…

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Fill prescriptions for nature

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Last year, a lone wolf became the first to enter California in nearly a century. Now, with his own Twitter feed and a new mate, he's kind of a big deal.

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104 peaks now open, but avalanche concerns abound

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Busted at Sydney airport

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Part of ecological revitalization project

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Highlining is a special sport. This short documentary follows Team Trail Magic, a social highlining crew based in Southern California, and explores what highlining is and what it means to them. A film by J.R. Racine.  …

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Selected from more than 18,000

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According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary

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Moab, Chile, Canada, and Portugal are featured in this edit as riders rip down trails around the world with ENVE’s new M Series wheels. If this doesn’t get you ready for a summer filled with mountain biking, we don’t know what will. Directed and produced by…

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George Hincapie was one of the peloton's most respected riders—and Lance's dominant domestique. But when he had to testify before the U.S Anti-Doping Agency, he faced a brutal choice: Speak out about Lance and his own doping past, or quit the sport altogether.

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Changing global water conditions mean gelatinous presence farther inland

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Also works on cats

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Arkansas residents concerned about waste, E. coli

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Results from Gallup's "positive experience poll" are in

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Even as growth slows

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9th-century notebook and tool in one

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The Florida Keys are a cluster of about 1700 islands in the extreme southeast of the United States. Islamorada is known as the “Sport Fishing Capital of the World,” and rumor has it that it hosts the largest fishing fleet per square mile in the world. In Episode 5 of Smith’s…

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Stormchasers capture surreal vortex-like cloud on film

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Amid the worst drought in California’s history, does the fate of the state’s salmon rest on weeding out the illegal marijuana farms?

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Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks range now protected

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After being mauled by a brown bear defending her cubs, a woman walks miles before she can get a ride to the hospital.

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In Episode 4 of Great Days, the Smith team took off South hoping to discover more wild trails, breathraking views and to experience more of the welcoming Chilean culture. To their surprise, they were welcomed by some unbelievable trails in Chillan.  …

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Father and daughter captured 1980 eruption

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Sets sights on Tour de France

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Take note, Mr. Grylls

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For champion kayaker Brad Ludden, being outdoors has always been a way of life

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