Climber Jake Norton began tackling mountains at the age of 12 with an ascent of Mount Rainer. Since then, he has bagged that peak 98 times, climbed on six continents, and traveled to Everest six times. He has summited Everest three times. He helped discover Mallory's remains on Everest in…

Jack O’Neill: A former commercial fisherman widely credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit.

We'd known about the storm for days, so how come hundreds of trekkers were caught off guard?

Outside magazine, August 1996 Mountaineering: Tragedy at the Top of the World What really happened that fateful day? By Jeff Herr When you’ve just climbed to the top of Mount Everest, you want to linger there a few minutes, snapping photographs and basking in an extraordinary…

Week of February 19-25, 1998 Skiing the crunchy, ungroomed snow of Europe Studying kayaking at the Otter Bar Lodge Attempting the Grand Staircase with three friends Seeing the West’s national parks from an RV Family vacations that ring up under $5,000 Skiing the crunchy,…

How did a mellow, mop-haired, lackadaisically unfashionable snowboarder achieve freeride immortality? First he lifted his carve to a fine art. Then he linked turns down impossibly steep terrain on some of the planet's highest peaks. Now he bucks industry trends, eschews money, and foreswears fame. But most important, he just rides.

 Outside Magazine, November 1994 The Happy, Wholesome, Hip-Hop Life of the MammothTeenage Death Dwarfs High on the mountaintops, the kids are winning By Bucky McMahon If Tommy Czeschin, star freestyler of the Mammoth Mountain Junior Snowboard Team, were to ride down this little piece…

Apparently the Santa FeRiver, a block from my house, is home to some of the best whitewater in NewMexico. This came as a great surprise to me as it “flows” through downtown at awidth half the length of my paddle. But the large man I met yesterday, kayakstrapped to the…

I have an early-nineties GT mountain bike with a titanium fre. It's still a good-looking, lightweight bike, but its rear U-brake has no real power. Are there any compatible brakes with better grip, or are there any pads with magical powers? Andreas Reno, Nevada

The Czech climber just conquered one of the world's hardest routes in record time