Outside magazine, July 1996 Mountaineering: Who, Moi? A year after Alison Hargreave’s tragic death on K2, Chantal Mauduit stakes claim as the sport’s newest star By Lolly Merrell “I admired her, but you see, we are very different,” says French alpinist Chantal Mauduit, speaking in broken…

Twenty-one years ago Bernd Heinrich, a cold-hardened University of Vermont biology professor, burst upon the literary scene with Ravens in Winter, which did for corvids what Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf did for canids. Although Heinrich’s later books ranged further afield–Bumblebee Economics explored the energy economy of bees, while…

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Man and water. Photo: Shutterstock South African exercise scientist Dr. Tim Noakes wants to change the way endurance athletes think about hydration. He believes that, over the course of the last 30 years, people have been scared into drinking too much fluid while exercising. As a result, he says…

The Doug Coombs Foundation was created to subsidize skiing and open up the sport to a broader audience. Now the Jackson, Wyoming–based organization finds itself on the front lines in the battle over undocumented workers.

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