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While awaiting further judgment on a case against the accuracy of Three Cups of Tea, the bestseller he co-wrote with Greg Mortenson, Relin committed suicide by putting himself in the path of a moving freight train
wind turbines, Banning Pass, CA. Down on the wind farm. Photo: George Wuerthner Every therm and watt of energy we consume comes from somewhere, and those sources are finite, even if they're generally well removed from our daily lives. Energy: Overdevelopment…
The best articles, photos, and videos I didn’t post this week鈥攗ntil now. (Sorry for missing last week, I was concentrating on digesting my Thanksgiving meal, unlike this fool, who gave up.) If you only click on one link this week, make…
How deep can an action-packed adventure movie get? A new bar has been set, at least for teaser video and text. Blur the lines between dream state and reality, as you perceive the world through the minds of many. Into the Mind contemplates the…
国产吃瓜黑料 filmmaker J.J. Kelley lets you in on the tricks of the trade. Join us between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET on Thursday, November 29, 2012, for a free screening of his latest film 'Go Ganges!' and a livechat.
Yesterday, specialty outdoor e-tailer聽Backcountry.com聽launched Treeline, an online retail showcase for artists, craftsmen, and up-and-coming brands whose products 鈥渆volve the outdoor lifestyle.鈥 The new site goes way beyond selling shirts, shoes, or wooden camping bowls. Each week, Backcountry.com聽will profile one brand/artist. Treeline introduces…
Television producers and adventure travelers Josh Thomas and J.J. Kelley test their skills on an epic adventure down India’s sacred river.
Why the giant waves in Chasing Mavericks won鈥檛 help Hollywood break its surf-film losing streak
Shoot and edit your own short film in the Colorado backcountry with the 国产吃瓜黑料 国产吃瓜黑料 Film School
We talked with the Survivorman star about finding your meals in the backcountry, and why you should consider foraging your own holiday feast鈥攁nd maybe even eating it raw and rotting
The best articles, videos, and photos I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. If you only have time to click on two links, check out “BP Will Plead Guilty and Pay Over $4 Billion,” from The New York Times, and “…
The Ledge. Photo: Random House The National Outdoor Book Awards have released their picks for the best books of 2012. This year's titles include 15 winners and honorable mentions in nine categories, ranging…
Ken Burns talks about his latest documentary and why a 1930s disaster means so much in the present day
In Anything Worth Doing, Jo Deurbrouck profiles Clancy Reece, who lost his life on the Salmon in June 1996 when the river crested at nearly 100,000cfs
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国产吃瓜黑料 Television is ready to unveil the first phase of a significant programming push with a quintet of original shows. The active lifestyle and adventure-sports proponent, created in mid-2010 from 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine and the former Resort Sports Network, will bow a new season of morning staple 国产吃瓜黑料 Today and present…
The best photos, articles, and videos I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. If you only read one thing, check out Matthew Power's story, “Far Rockaway: Global Disaster Zone.” For the best longreads of the week, visit “…
RYAN STUARTLast year was a tough snow year in most places. But not on Vancouver Island, where pack tested Stuart lives and plays: Mount Washington and the hills surrounding his home received some 45 feet. INGA HENDRICKSONNot only did Hendrickson shoot everything in this issue, but she also…
LITTLE BOY LOSTMany of the search-and-rescue responders who spent countless hours combing the Virginia forests for autistic eight-year-old Robbie Wood Jr. (“Catch Me If You Can,” August) also felt compelled to write in about the story. “Being one of the volunteers involved in this search was…
Michael Brown’s documentary, which grew out of an 国产吃瓜黑料 国产吃瓜黑料 Film School project, follows a group of 11 wounded United States veterans as they scale a mountain in the Himalayas.
Just back from the front Kachin Independence Army soldiers take a rest in front of the Laiza hotel MYANMAR'S LAST WARAs Adam Skolnick observes in “The Jesus-Kissed, War-Fringed, Love-Swirled Rangers,” Myanmar's government is engaged in a complicated dance: freeing political prisoners on the one hand, while launching attacks…
To reach the clandestine training camp where he photographed “The Jesus-Kissed, War-Fringed, Love-Swirling Rangers,” South Africa-based lensman Jonathan Torgovnik was smuggled across the Burmese border in a pirogue. Then he was guided at night through a jungle laced with land mines. At the camp, Torgovnik met a…
Some stories take a day to report. Others, like Joe Spring's profile of Navajo cross-country coach Shaun Martin, “Running Down a Dream,” are a bit more involved. “The best stories sometimes take the longest to report,” says Sam Moulton, who edited Spring's piece. For…
A view of the changed coastline in New Jersey. Photo: NASA Goddard Instead of gathering a widespread assortment of the week's best articles, videos, and photos, I've included the most thought-provoking and eye-opening articles on Sandy and her aftermath. Some…
In the winter of 2002, three friends and I headed out of bounds from the Santa Fe Ski Basin for an afternoon of sidecountry skiing in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Our destination was a set of relatively mellow chutes that drop from a ridge just above timberline into…
Fire Season. Photo: Ecco/Harper Collins On Thursday, Banff announced that Fire Season won the Grand Jury Prize in its 2012 book competition. Written by…
The movie poster. Photo: Courtesy of Messner One of the biggest films that screened at the 2012 Banff Mountain Film Competition was Messner, a 108-minute German documentary with English subtitles directed by…
A list of the best articles, videos, and photos that I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. For the best longreads of the week, check out “Weekend Reading: Invasion!“ ADVENTURE What's the story behind the explosion in popularity of…
America's leading active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine is looking for a digital editions designer to join its team. Think you have what it takes? Apply now. 国产吃瓜黑料聽magazine, America's leading active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine dedicated to covering the sports, people, places, adventures, discoveries, health and fitness, gear and…
“To the Arctic”. Photo: Florian Schulz The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival is an annual gathering of the biggest names in adventure and environmental writing and…
America's leading active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine is looking for a designer to join its print team. Think you have what it takes? Apply now. 国产吃瓜黑料聽magazine, America's leading active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine dedicated to covering the sports, people, places, adventures, discoveries, health and fitness, gear and apparel,…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=siu6JYqOZ0g What would you like to do if money were no object? Philosopher Alan Watts asked that question of students getting ready to leave school and enter into a career. He's dead now, but thanks to the magic of YouTube, you can listen to his three-minute lecture. Nevermind if you're…
Our fact-checkers have had some sensitive, even absurd conversations with sources over the years, but nothing compares with a rather definitive exchange research assistant Meaghen Brown had with Burning Man co-creator John Law while verifying the accuracy of this issue's oral history of the festival (“…
This month we turned readers into test subjects, grilling you for your attitudes on travel, sports, environmental issues, risk, and even the features that appear in the issue. (You'll find the results here: Danger, Environment, Sports, Travel,…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JOHw7lX3Gu4Oh no, a baby elephant is trapped in a well. Prep the rescue rope, and somebody, for God's sake, cue Coldplay. Via: Grind TV The best articles, videos, and photos that I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now.
To evaluate our performance over the past 35 years, we convened a review board, made up of our most dedicated subscribers, and encouraged them to pull no punches. Gulp. “I still have all my old copies, going back to at least 1994. The funniest thing I ever read in 国产吃瓜黑料…
If backcountry exploration and filmmaking are two of your passions, then hurry up and send us your video
Unless you're a professional videographer and friends with athletes Julia Mancuso, Kelly Slater, and J.T. Holmes, it's unlikely that any video you shoot with GoPro's Hero 3 Black camera will come off as tight as the five-minute clip the company has put together.
I wouldn't describe myself as a control freak, but turning over a huge chunk of 国产吃瓜黑料's editorial and photography to readers this month was still a somewhat terrifying experience. When we launched the 35th Anniversary-themed reader-submission pages online in May, asking you to supply everything from images (for…
Ryan Barnhart spent three years commuting two hours each day to a real estate firm in Los Angeles鈥攁n experience he describes as “utter, miserable hell.” Then, in 2010, he received 国产吃瓜黑料's May issue, with our story on the 50 best companies in America. “I applied to all 50,” says Barnhart,…
Rwandan cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti lost 60 of his relatives to genocide in the '90s. This year, he competed in the mountain biking event at the 2012 Olympics in London.
During our Best Towns 2012 competition, hosted on Facebook over four weeks this summer, residents of 10 finalist towns submitted more than 20,000 votes, posted some 5,000 comments, and uploaded roughly 1,000 photos. But none were quite as convincing as this one, from Richmond's…
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/vkJ5ItzEq3MWatch the jump live above. Red Bull Stratos team leaders say there is a 50-50 chance this morning that Austrian stuntman Felix Baumgartner will lift off in a capsule carried by…
A few facts on the cheetah, via Not Exactly Rocket Science. Go to Jacob O'Neal's website for a larger gif. The best articles, videos, and photos I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now.
Gannets. Photo: Winged Planet When filmmaker John Downer was in elementary school, he got down in the dirt of his parents' garden so that he could film the insects, frogs, and toads using a Super 8 camera.
This new show from the Discovery Channel offers a bird’s eye view of life on Earth. For more on the making of the show, check out our interview with director John Downer.
A look at ten of the silver screen's oddest, most entertaining, and occasionally even accurate techniques for living through disaster
“Out Living It” will play at the 国产吃瓜黑料 Film Festival in Boulder, which begins October 4. The best photos, videos, and articles I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. If you only click on one…
The most promising films screened at this year's Toronto Film Festival featured adventure seekers and adventure survivors. We reviewed six of them.
In The Deep, a chubby man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Iceland, only to wash ashore to a field of jagged, volcanic rock
Gerald Ford takes the snap. (U.S. National Archives and Recor)U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Photo: Wikimedia Commons 鈥淏est athlete鈥 discussions always make for an interesting debate in the sense that they鈥檙e always totally stupid and pointless and boundary-less, so you鈥檙e basically arguing about completely…
In Kon-Tiki, directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg present a fictional look at Thor Heyerdahl's attempt to sail from Peru to Polynesia
In Venus & Serena, filmmakers Maiken Baird and Michelle Major provide a glimpse into the lives of tennis' most dominant siblings
PASS THE MICFor our second-annual Interview Issue (July) we sat down with nearly two dozen outspoken personalities to talk about everything from the environment to doping to spectacular crashes (yes, we're talking about you, Jeb Corliss). Readers' reactions to the conversations varied considerably.
Reporting “The Devil on Paradise Road,” about the murder of ranger Margaret Anderson inside Washington's Mount Rainier National Park, hit close to home for Seattle-based contributing editor Bruce Barcott. “I've snowshoed across the creek where the killer's body was found,” says Barcott, who…
The best articles, videos, and photos that I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. If you only have time to read one link this week, read, “How Silent Spring Ignited the Environmental Movement,” by Eliza Griswold. ADVENTURE Read this. You…
The role that these tiny insects play in our global ecosystem has never been made more clear than by Swiss director Markus Imhoof in More Than Honey, an extreme close-up documentary
In 9.79*, documentary filmmaker Daniel Gordon examines the 1988 Summer Olympics race that would set the stage for doping scandals to come
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OtY8DpA_XNEPresenting 131 years of temperature data in 26 seconds. (Things get hotter.) The articles, videos, and photos I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. If you have time to read only one article from this list, read “Obama's Way,” by Michael Lewis…
The world of surfing meets the age of 3-D cinema in Justin McMillian and Chris Nelius' new film
An adventure into the world of big wave surfing with Aussie legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time World Champion Tom Carroll. Read our Q&A with the filmmakers.
“57 Feet and Rising,” by W. Hodding Carter, won gold for U.S./Canada Travel Article. Photo: Christopher LaMarca If you're looking for a great longread, the Society of American Travel Writers just announced the winners of their annual…
The most ambitious environmental documentary since An Inconvenient Truth tries to make the case that we just might win
The best articles, photos, and videos that I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. If you only have time to check out one of these links, read “Elephants dying in epic frenzy as ivory fuels wars and profits,” from The New York Times. ADVENTURE Everyone else remembers…
Image: DDB Group China Car sales in China are a wee bit flat right now, but it鈥檚 still one of the world鈥檚 largest car markets. Congestion in cities is so bad that local governments have begun restricting how many people can drive each day. Despite that,…
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Tyler Hamilton鈥檚 new book, The Secret Race, makes it impossible to believe Lance鈥檚 story anymore
The news leaks about The Secret Race have vastly undersold its importance. Tyler Hamilton鈥檚 book is a historic, definitive indictment of cycling鈥檚 culture of doping during the Armstrong era.
Over the course of their careers, Chris Sharma and Adam Ondra have both been able to lay claim to the title of world's strongest sport climber. But watch this engaging clip from Sender Films' and Big UP Productions' La Dura Dura,聽 and you can see that's about where the…
In Lumbering Planes, artist Callum Cooper has made a trippy video about trees. It's packed with footage shot from a swinging camera. The first reaction I had when watching the short was, How did he shoot it? Sculpture of Lumbaring…
Earthrise As Seen By Lunar Orbiter 1 on 23 August 1966 via Space Ref Photo: LOIRP/NASA The best articles, videos, and galleries that I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. Lance Armstrong Judge sides with USADA…
Filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson discuss Samsara, their world tour of mesmerizing images that force us to think about humanity and our relationship to the eternal
In August鈥檚 Premium Rush, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a bicycle messenger who gets mixed up with criminal forces and must ride for his life. Astute (or simply awake) moviegoers will note the similarity to 1986鈥檚 seminal Quicksilver, in which Kevin Bacon plays a bicycle messenger who gets mixed up with criminal forces and must ride for his life. We
There is something about a bicycle that stirs the soul. In some souls, the act of riding also inspires the act of writing and, naturally, as one wheel follows another, there are books about bicycles. These are our favorites.
Watch Lucas Brunelle's controversial documentary about the world of alley cat racing
The best stories, videos, and photos I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now.聽 OLYMPICS It should be mathematical, Propeller via Science of Sport Extremely close up at the Olympics, The New York Times Analyzing Semenya鈥檚 race, The Science of Sport…
This month marks 25 years of amazing footage, corny hosts, and fake blood for the Discovery Channel鈥檚 most-watched series
Paul Hildebrandt began a love affair with space as a child through science fiction. As an adult, the director has set out to make a documentary called Fight for Space. “Since the Apollo era of the 1960s, NASA's…