Everything
Without safety gear
Climate scientists Jason Box and McKenzie Skiles are packing up their ice core drills and heading to Greenland on a crowd-funded expedition.
Lured down with promise of blanket
Sank in 17th century
Fifth sighting since April
This move works your shoulders, core, obliques, quads, outer thighs, hip rotators, and your balance.
This move works your inner and outer thighs, hip stabilizers, core, shoulders, back, and posterior chain.
This move works your back, shoulders, core, and inner thighs.
This move works your core, glutes, hamstrings, back, rear shoulders, and proprioception.
This move works your shoulders, chest, back, core, inner and outer thighs, and hip rotators.
This move works your chest, shoulders, triceps, core, and hip flexors.
This move works your core, shoulders, lats, back, and legs.
The life of a Sherpa is relatively lucrative in Nepal, but no service industry in the world so frequently kills and maims its workers for the benefit of paying clients. As Grayson Schaffer reports, the dead are often forgotten, and their families left with nothing but ghosts.
Believed to be 1,200 years old
Jumped on the creature and went for a ride
I train barefoot at an easy pace on trails, but when I race, I tend to run fast 10K’s and 5K’s, and the asphalt isn’t friendly at that pace. What shoes should I wear?
There’s a new generation of U.S. riders emerging at the pointy end of the peloton—hopefully in an honest manner. This is the final installment in a series of interviews with these young Americans.
What made this former legislative aide ditch Capitol Hill for the life of a wandering fly fisherman? The fish, of course.
Midway through her first 50-mile trail race, Katie Arnold finds out that running may just be the easiest thing in the world—once you get over the competition, pain, and landscape that doesn't seem to want to let you finish.
Lifts 187.2 pounds, humiliates everyone
379 homes destroyed, two dead
Will generate enough energy to power Denver
I like to celebrate post-trail with a few high-quality adult beverages. Where would you recommend for an avid hiker who’s also a beer nut, a wine lover, and a liquor snob?
New technology has made it easier than ever to keep real-time tabs on an endless array of fitness metrics. Don't drown in the data stream.
Pandora’s Promise, a new film by Robert Stone, argues that our only chance of escaping climate-change doom is a global shift to atomic energy. David Biello has a few hard questions, including: What will we do with all that waste?
Drought and climate change have turned western forests into firebombs that go off every summer. Even with new technology, the essential weapon in the fight against flame are the Hotshots, an elite group of wilderness first responders who head straight for the heat.
Using freezing air to cool servers
In the past month, I’ve camped at the Wildflower Triathlons, and at the Deuces Wild Triathlon festival. Both times it felt like my sleeping bag wasn’t as warm as it used to be. Do sleeping bags expire?
After quitting their jobs and selling their house, Coloradoans Erica and Mark Lighthiser packed it up—kids, dog, possessions—and started pedaling north. How far will their journey take them?
Harmful to birds, say UK experts
There’s been a lot of talk lately about who should foot the bill for backcountry rescues. I’m usually pretty careful, but accidents happen, and I don’t want to get stuck with the tab. Should I purchase rescue insurance for my next way-out-there trip?
Every summer, 50 elite athletes endure a torture test of cold and wet at a tiny island off the south coast of Ireland, where they train to swim the English Channel. The only rules: No wetsuits. Or whining. Matt Bondurant goes deep.
In new study from Yeshiva University
Will swim 100 miles with no shark cage
Studied the effects of the ash borer beetle
Stuck in crevasse field
First, I read about a woman who ran Chicago pregnant. Then I read about a woman who won a marathon while pregnant. Are they outliers, or is it safe to train and race while pregnant?
When Polly Green set out to work her way back to kayaking's World Championships, she had no idea that she'd end up documenting the rise of the sport's next generation
Green Mountain Digital re-launches its award-winning bird field guide app, complete with a slew of new social media and geo-tagging features
Foreign minister headed to Addis Ababa
Shot by the SERPENT project
Austrian nets sixth win of 2013
Burn through 2.8 percent of the forest
Driver escapes unharmed, condition of moose unknown
Since I was a kid, it’s been droned into me to carry a map and compass in the outdoors, even if it’s a backup for GPS. What’s the least I can get away with?
The best whitewater gear for kids
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency is making its long-awaited move to lift federal protections for the gray wolf while focusing more resources on Mexican wolf recovery. But the fate of the species remains unclear.
Those who continue to fixate on cheaters and unfairly accuse innocent riders are missing the point of cycling.
The iconic travel-writer addresses his new book and the claims that he is an "Afro-pessimist"
Was familiar with the river
Would dwarf the Panama Canal
Advised beach-goers to go to rival beach
Responsibility will move to states
I read about the cardboard bike launching on Kickstarter, but is it true a bike’s been made out of washing machine parts? What’s the weirdest thing a bike’s been made out of?
The champion South Carolina kayaker can’t train full-time. But that hasn’t stopped her from holding her own in some of the world’s biggest water.
From ferrying kids to preschool to hitting up the farmer’s market, Xtracycle’s beefy longtail can handle it all.
Car had tumbled down a cliff
Adam Gemili loses by .1 seconds
I’ve heard of shoes and special boot inserts that generate electricity every time you step down. It sounds far-fetched. What’s the reality?
Excerpts from Feed Zone Portables, Allen Lim and Biju Thomas’ new cookbook for nutrition on the go
After a tabloid linked one of the best female ski racers on the planet to a notorious doping proponent, we decided to take a closer look at the possibilities of doping in the sport. What we found might surprise you.
Will Grand Rapids, Michigan, soon become the Boulder, Colorado, of the Midwest? Two paddlers are on the path to making it happen.