Books & Media
ArchiveHere is a look behind the scenes of Alastair Lee’s new film The Last Great Climb, which premiered on November 4th. The film follows Leo Houlding with his team of Jason Pickles and Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary as they attempt to make the first ascent of the NE ridge of Ulvetanna…
Starring Jeremy Jones, a 2013 National Geographic 鈥樄怨虾诹蟫 of the Year,’ Higher聽is the final piece of the TGR聽trilogy. Jones and his crew are elevating their game and taking their quest to the highest standard for the third and final installment of the Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy from Teton Gravity…
November 4th Premiere! Alastair Lee’s film on Leo Houlding with his team of Jason Pickles and Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary as they attempt to make the first ascent of the NE ridge of Ulvetanna Pea. The Last Great Climb…
How a fearless filmmaker is shifting the conversation around snowboarding and big air
The Southern Foodways Alliance searches out the best hidden food personalities in the American South, tells their stories in films and oral histories, and puts their farms and restaurants on the map. We called filmmaker Joe York to find out why he works so hard to raise the profile of out-of-the-way cooks, farmers, and ranchers.
When outdoor athletes put down their gear and pick up guitars
One of the boldest skiers of our time, Shane McConkey left behind a wife, a daughter, and one of the sport's greatest legacies. Now a new documentary shares intimate details of his life. We talk to his widow, Sherry McConkey, about the film and their time together.
Teton Gravity Research’s Way Of Life is now available for download on iTunes. Check out the opening segment.
A short-film revealing what is perhaps Joel Tudor鈥檚 greatest contribution to surfing. Featuring Joel Tudor, Alex Knost, Tyler Warren, Ryan Burch, Jared Mell and more. Directed by Graham Nash and Reagan Ritchie.
An embedded film-maker boldly documents Lance Armstrong鈥檚 downfall
In a new book, author and naturalist Doug Peacock imagines our species鈥 next big adventure鈥攃oping with a climate apocalypse that may now be imminent.
The North Face Speaker Series hosts mountaineering legends Conrad Anker, Simone Moro and Kit DesLauriers. Tune in at 7 p.m. Eastern as the three Everest giants discuss what the future holds for the top of the world.
Harvard biologist Daniel Lieberman's new book, The Story of the Human Body, digs deep into the real meaning of "paleo" and why we struggle to stay fit and healthy in the modern age.
One car, one infinite urban sprawl, and one long list of the places where the legendary show was filmed. Mapping out a self-guided auto route seemed doable鈥攂ut was it survivable?
Books, far more than movies or television or video games, impose a very useful obligation on the reader: the joy of exercising your imagination. These are our top classic tales for formative years.
Now鈥檚 your best chance to hold nothing back
Set goals for others, get a tattoo, and don't try to outswim an angry beaver.
With an entourage of powder freaks and beautiful athletic women, Nick Waggoner is doing his twenties justice鈥攖aking big creative risks and traveling the world directing artsy ski porn that sponsors love.
Photographer Todd McLellan destroyed some of his favorite old gear so he could take pictures of it. We called him up to find out why.
The official trailer to 4bi9 Media’s upcoming ski film, All聽Damn Day, set to be released August 2013.
Two literary lions deliver long-awaited epics about espionage and globalization
The new trailer to Sweetgrass Productions' upcoming ski film, Valhalla, set to be released Sept. 13…
Just train for 10,000 hours, right? Not quite. In his new book, author David Epstein argues that top-shelf athletic performance may be a more complicated formula than we鈥檝e recently come to believe.
A clip from Lucy Walker’s staggering new film about Kevin Pierce and traumatic brain injury in adventure sports.
Inside the partnership of a nine-year-old bouldering prodigy and her passionate coach, from Sender Films.
Ben Hewitt talks about his new book, Saved, and the challenges of learning to live the cashless dream
The director of HBO's fracking documentary talks environment, contamination, and community
The king of survival talks about his new NBC reality show Get Out Alive, mending fences with the Discovery Channel, and making regular people eat awful things. PLUS: Exclusive video clips from the new show.
He's loud, he's proud, and鈥攁dvisably or not鈥攖he Nuge always speaks his mind. We caught up with the 64-year-old rocker ahead of the return of his TV show, Spirit of the Wild, to talk about why he still spends his downtime hanging out in the woods.
A new book on the vanished age of airline hijacking captures an astonishing time. There was no airport security, and people brandishing weapons and bombs routinely commandeered aircraft around the world.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, the story of pollination, an ongoing dance between flowers and the bees, bats, hummingbirds and butterflies that are essential to life on earth.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, director Roger Ross Williams returns with a different look at Uganda.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, a ragtag crew sails deep into a fjord in Greenland. The water channel, iced over for millenia, is open to exploration only because of global warming.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, welcome to the world of off-width crack climbing, a sub-genre that attracts a rare breed.
From Mountainfilm in Telluride, Robert Stone鈥檚 newest film questions much of what we accept as fact about the negative side of nuclear as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Pandora鈥檚 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?
The iconic travel-writer addresses his new book and the claims that he is an "Afro-pessimist"
Life Lessons from the toughest, hardest, foulest-mouthed children鈥檚 author on earth. *Parental guidance suggested.
A trailer from Kiss the Water, a fly-fishing oddyssey and one of our favorite films from the Tribeca Film Festival.
Marmot Presents: DUK COUNTY, a documentary film that chronicles a bold medical mission to cure blindness in South Sudan. Produced by Jordan Campbell and Michael Herbener and due to premiere at Telluride Mountainfilm in May. (For more on South Sudan, check out Patrick Symmes’ feature story.)…
David Oliver Relin made his name as coauthor of the disgraced bestseller Three Cups of Tea鈥攖hen tragically committed suicide. Now, a major publisher hypes Relin鈥檚 posthumous history of the inspiring Himalayan Cataract Project. Should we buy it?
What do rock-climbing heart transplant patients, Somali pirate hunters, and arctic cowboys have in common? All could be found on the big screen at this year鈥檚 Tribeca Film Festival. Of this year鈥檚 217 films, these seven outdoor-focused picks were a cut above.
After freeskier Shane McConkey died in a ski-BASE accident four years ago, a group of his friends created McConkey, a documentary of his adventures that is as thrilling as it is heartfelt. We spoke with two of the directors about the film.
Anson Fogel, founder of Forge Motion Pictures and winner of more than 60 awards at outdoor film festivals, on how to get the most out of your action cam.
A brilliant adaptation of Kon-Tiki brings the legend of Thor Heyerdahl to the masses
Before his arrest last Tuesday, survivalist Troy James Knapp, a.k.a. the Mountain Man of southern Utah, lived off the fat of the landowners, breaking into cabins and running circles around sheriffs and marshals with little but his physical fitness and backcountry savvy. As Knapp appears in Sanpete County court via video this morning, JON BILLMAN reports on the
Junger鈥檚 powerful new documentary about the life of war photographer Tim Hetherington shows us why dedicated journalists are needed now more than ever
Ueli Steck dreamed of using a paraglider to enchain three of the Alps’ most famous mountains in a day. But first he had to learn to fly.
The story of a Pacific Island community in Papua New Guinea鈥攖heir unique way of life and their fight to preserve what really matters in the face of climate change.
In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form articles, collecting them here and on Longreads and Twitter. This installment focuses on sled dogs, sewer rats, and mountaintop doping.
When he isn't guiding world-renowned photographers, psychologists, and Hollywood acting coaches, Chris Dombrowski is writing. We caught up with him on the occasion of his new book.
Dan Baum, author of Gun Guys: A Road Trip, talks to Jason Fagone about the appeal of the AR-15 rifle, the link between gun love and social class, and how carrying a firearm changes the way you look at the world
"If I die here on the road, at least I'm doing something to change my life."
In this exclusive clip from The Discovery Channel’s Weed Country, airing at 10 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, grower Nate Morris returns to his farm to find that his crop has been ripped up by a fellow grower.
Leo Houlding, Jason Pickles, and Sean “Stanley” Leary go deep into the Amazon to attempt a first ascent on the magnificent Cerro Autana.
The trailer for Battleground: Rhino Wars, a riveting new series in which former and current Navy SEALs and a Green Beret head to South Africa to stop illegal rhino poaching.
Hollywood sticks it to the energy establishment with the new Matt Damon and John Krasinski film
Jim Harrison's new book, made up of two longer stories, is a fascinating read about the way we navigate rivers and life
Hitch a ride with renowned surf/skate photographer Steve Sherman as he syncs up with Donavon Frankenreiter for his European “Start Livin'” Tour. Watch the full video on聽YouTube.
Join us for the strange but true story of Wild Bill Cooper, playing right here on Thursday, February 7, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. ET. Filmmaker Mike Scholtz will join us in the comments below to answer your questions.
Robert Stone, the Academy Award-nominated director behind Radio Bikini, has done a complete 180, embracing nuclear power in Pandora's Promise, his latest documentary. What caused him to come around?
What can we learn from traditional societies?
In his latest documentary, Albert Maysles profiles 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer, who won the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History for applying the Fibonacci number sequence to the design of solar panels
This is the strange but true story of Wild Bill Cooper. Part Arctic adventure and part crime caper, Wild Bill’s Run is an unforgettable ride with a true American folk hero. Join us for an online screening of the full film on February 7, 2013, at 7 p.m.
Sebastian Junger pays tribute to the late war photographer in Which Way Is the Front Line From Here?, a new documentary that will air on HBO in mid-April
We spoke to director Nick Ryan about his new film The Summit, which revisits a 2008 tragedy on K2, a mountain for mountaineers
It’s the deadliest day on the world’s most dangerous mountain in this trailer for a feature documentary. Read our Q&A with director Nick Ryan.
The Disaster Diaries author on self-reliance, situational awareness, and adulthood
Three years after his professional snowboarding career ended with a traumatic brain injury on the half-pipe, Pearce is in Park City, Utah, promoting The Crash Reel, a documentary from Lucy Walker that follows his recovery process
Boulderers Paul Robinson, Ashima Shiraishi, and Carlo Traversi head to South Africa’s Western Cape in search of unclimbed lines.