Everything you need to know about the biggest downhill skiing races of the season

Mountainfilm in Telluride recently announced their stable of films for 2012. One of the documentaries, Baseball in the Time of Cholera, makes a great case for telling one individual's story to get at a bigger issue. The filmmakers behind the movie, David Darg and Bryn Mooser, started…

The company taking 75 “remotes” around the world for a year—for $27,000—has grown and come under criticism in its inaugural year. Is it an idea that can last?

Q: Where can I find inexpensive, tourist-free backpacking in Alaska? — Rosanne Clemente, Bay Shore, New York Adventure Advisor: A: The general rule with Alaskan wilderness is that you can have it cheap OR tourist-free, but rarely both. There’s a simple reason for this: Only a few of the parks…

Features The Ultimate Fitness Machine: Dave Asprey, the man who brought you Bullet-proof coffee, is expanding his biohacking empire into performance. Nick Heil hops inside the Vir­tual Float Tank at the pilot Bullet­proof Labs. —Nick Heil Irmageddon: Two months after Hur­ricane Irma flattened the house where he grew up on St.

Special 40th Anniversary Issue

Way back in 2007, filmmaker Dave Ohlson was in Namche Bazaar talking to climber Fabrizzio Zangrilli about Luigi Amedeo di Savoia's 1909 expedition to K2. Savoia, better known as the Duke of Abruzzi, led a team to 20,500 feet, the highest point reached on the mountain up to that time.

Revisit our best of the year—picked by you

The latest trend in surfboard design is stout, full figures. All four of the boards we selected, from the short and fat Third World Exotic Surfboards Ghostbuster to the 5'11" Lost Bottom Feeder, are under seven feet long, maneuverable, and built with plenty of width and thickness to make catching waves easy.

You may not be a pro skier or climber, but at least you can train like one. Mountain sports coach Rob Shaul and his students share how they prepare for the peaks.