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ArchivePhoto: Srineet/Flickr It is common knowledge at this point that the United States of America is the greatest country in the world, which was verified after the Americans won the Olympics. (104 medals, 46 golds, y'all.) Other perks for winning the Olympics: ownership of the sun,…
For years, outdoorsman and hunter Steven Rinella dreamed of felling a Dall sheep, North America's most difficult game animal. After seeing his friends come home with horns of their own, in this excerpt from his new book, Meat Eater: 国产吃瓜黑料s of an American Hunter, he went all in and booked a trip to the Alaska Range.
Allie Bombach on location. Photo: Miguel Tercero What is it about movers and shakers? What makes them tick? Filmmaker Allie Bombach wants to know and is using her MoveShake film series to uncover some answers. The year-long project debuted in early June with the…
Photo: sam_churchill/Flickr The five things you should know if you were only going to know five things about the final weekend at the Olympics. 1. Jamaica鈥檚 4x100m relay team ran around a track in less than 37 seconds, winning the gold medal and…
Photo: ianpatterson99/Flickr Everything you need to know about tonight's Olympic primetime coverage鈥攚ithout knowing what actually happened. MEN鈥橲 POLE VAULTAs with all throwing events, you don鈥檛 really have a choice whether or not you want to watch this. It actually ends up being a pretty…
In this weekly roundup, we scour the Web for our favorite long-form magazine and newspaper articles, collecting them here and on Longreads and Twitter. This installment focuses on the deodorant we wear, the hospitals we visit, our online lives, and the future of solar po
In Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, participatory journalist Doug Fine wades into the world of legal cannabis farming and comes out with a harsh critique of the war on drugs
Photo: markhillary/Flickr The five things you should know if you were only going to know five things about yesterday at the Olympics. 1. Usain Bolt won gold in the 200m, repeating his sweep of the Olympic sprint races because of course he did that. No…
For the 40 years since the adaptation of the James Dickey novel of the same name hit theaters, Deliverance has endured because it gets at a fundamental truth about our relationship with the wild
Photo: Erik van Leeuwen/Wikimedia Commons The five things you should know if you were only going to know five things about yesterday at the Olympics. 1. The U.S. moved back ahead of China in the medal standings, currently leading the way with 82 medals compared to…
Photo: Erik van Leeuwen/Wikimedia Commons Everything you need to know about tonight’s Olympic primetime coverage鈥攚ithout knowing what actually happened. WOMEN鈥橲 10M PLATFORMThe Chinese diving team will be looking to bounce back from yesterday鈥檚 鈥渄isappointing鈥 silver medal in the men鈥檚 3m springboard competition. As is always…
The first big Olympic news to come out on Instagram? Well, a photo revealed that Michael Phelps' girlfriend is a 20-something blonde bombshell. Aside from that shocker, there are other photos that reveal personal details about the athletes. A lot of the…
Photo: tommarsh/Flickr Everything you need to know about tonight's Olympic primetime coverage鈥攚ithout knowing what actually happened. WOMEN鈥橲 LONG JUMPThe last American to win this event was Jackie Joyner-Kersee in 1988. Brittney Reese will be looking to change that, as she鈥檚 the favorite heading into the…
Last spring, Bear Grylls walked away from one of the sweetest gigs in the adventure world. Was it career suicide? Or a savvy move by a born survivor?
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Photo: ianpatterson99/Flickr Everything you need to know about tonight's Olympic primetime coverage鈥攚ithout knowing what actually happened. MEN鈥橲 PARALLEL BARSFeng Zhe of China comes in as the favorite. He鈥檚 the 2010 world champion and will be expecting to win his second gold after a first-place finish…
Photo: ianpatterson99/Flickr Everything you need to know about tonight's Olympic primetime coverage鈥攚ithout knowing what actually happened. MEN鈥橲 RINGS China鈥檚 Chen Yibeng comes into the event as the overwhelming favorite. In addition to winning rings gold in Beijing鈥攚ith what鈥檚 maybe one of the best rings routines…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_hEzW1WRFTg The best videos, photos, and stories I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. OLYMPICS Is Michael Phelps the greatest Olympian ever? ESPN For Pistorius, nothing left to do but win, The New…
Photo: marcopako 铮/Flickr The five things you should know if you were only going to know five things about yesterday at the Olympics. 1. Something obvious: Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian ever. He has six more golds than anyone and now has more total medals…
Superheroes of Stoke Trailer from MSP Films on Vimeo. Twenty years after releasing their first ski film, Matchstick Productions is taking a look back. Their newest film, Superheroes of Stoke, follows some of freeskiing's biggest new…
Photo: marcopako 铮/Flickr Everything you need to know about tonight's Olympic primetime coverage鈥攚ithout knowing what actually happened. WOMEN'S TEAM GYMNASTICSThe U.S. women come in looking for their first team gold since 1996鈥檚 鈥淢agnificent Seven.鈥 Can they become the鈥攕orry Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard,…
Every Olympic year, a slew of newspapers, magazines, and websites put out photos of scantily clad or completely nude Olympians. 国产吃瓜黑料 did it this year with pictures of Lolo Jones by Robert Maxwell and Trey Hardee by…
Ben Sutherland The five things you should know if you were only going to know five things about yesterday at the Olympics. 1. We鈥檙e maybe seeing the beginning of the career of the greatest female swimmer ever. Or, according to others, we鈥檙e seeing a 16-year-old on…
Matt From London/Flickr The 2012 Olympics kicked off on Saturday鈥攊f you don't count soccer, which you should鈥攁nd a lot of things happened. It's not easy to keep up with it all, especially since NBC's streams have been especially screwy, so here are the…
For whatever reason, NBC is refusing to show the majority its primetime-scheduled Olympic events live. Well, they're showing them on their hitch-ridden, computer-crashing website, but they're not playing most of the marquee events when they happen. Maybe it's working (numbers are on a record pace) or maybe it's just…
Les Stroud in Norway. Photo: Discovery After almost a four-year absence, 50-year-old survival expert Les Stroud will return as Survivorman on Sunday August 19, at 8 p.m. Eastern. Earlier this year, Stroud traveled to the mountains of Norway…
Last week, we published a list of the top 10 United States Olympians to follow on Twitter. We also broke down the social media guidelines at the Games and threw in some…
Watch Dan Ransom's 22-minute film about canyoneer Richard Rudow's exploration of an undiscovered slot in the Grand Canyon.
Lolo Jones Photo: Screenshot of Twitter.com/LoloJones This is the social media Olympics. At least, such are the rumblings all over Facebook and Twitter. Fans and followers have exploded since the 2008 Games. Twitter has jumped from…
America's leading active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine is looking for a web producer to join its growing online team. Think you have what it takes? Apply now. Are you passionate about compelling digital content and audience development? Interested in the fast-paced, dynamic, challenging world of online news and information? 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine,…
“You might even live if you fell off of it,” says Squamish pioneer Perry Beckham. But that doesn't make this gorgeously-edited film of 25-year-old Canadian climber Will Stanhope free-soloing British Columbia's Zombie Roof (5.12d) any less gripping to watch. While the tone of the video is more soulful than…
If you鈥檙e like me, no matter how much you plan, the Wing It factor always comes into play when you go camping with children. Somebody sprouts a new tooth; you forget the salt; nobody sleeps. That's why it's called adventure. But now there's a book that can help you tame…
It's hard to imagine anything looking right about a 40-year-old man riding a BMX bike in the city, but Alain Massabova looks downright graceful as he wheels around Paris while wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and various pairs of Nike Airs. To be fair, it looks…
NOT LEAVING IT ALL ON THE PITCHContributing editor Eric Hansen has long been our go-to guy for offbeat stories, because he has a special knack for getting people to鈥攈ow should we put it鈥攐pen up. Not surprisingly, his piece about competing in the Quidditch World Cup (“Quoosiers,”…
The best videos, photos, and articles I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. ADVENTURE The search to find an autistic boy in the wilds of Virginia, 国产吃瓜黑料 Meet the woman with the most Olympic medals, Sports…
Our man on the ground at the 2012 San Fermin festival chats with Dennis Clancey, a frequent Pamplona runner and filmmaker who has been working on Chasing Red for the past six years
While reporting “Boom Times”, about the 21st-century survivalist movement known as prepping, Emily Matchar visited a handful of sophisticated bunkers and attended a South Carolina convention. “As someone who was raised to believe a gun in the house will inevitably lead to somebody getting shot in the…
If you鈥檝e seen Red Gold, about efforts to stop the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, you know the documentary-making prowess behind Felt Soul Media. The trailer for the team鈥檚 next film, DamNation, has just been released. Conceived by…
Here are the best stories, videos, and photos I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. ADVENTURE In England, Indoor Climbing to Overtake Outdoor Climbing in Popularity, The Guardian A Stinky Problem on Denali, Alaska Public Radio…
Cheryl Strayed, the latest Oprah book club inductee, isn't the first female writer to pen an epic adventure memoir. We take a look back at five other books that you should consider adding to your summer reading list.
Photo: Mara/Flickr One of our top 10 environmental news stories of 2011 was the troubling violence that environmental activists face in many parts of the world, particularly in Brazil, where three high-profile activists were slain last May. While researching that…
The best videos, photos, and stories I didn't post this week鈥攗ntil now. 国产吃瓜黑料 The Case Against the Case Against Lance Armstrong, 国产吃瓜黑料聽 Toenails Are For Sissies, The New York Times Hans Florine Talks About the…
COLD COMFORTWe weren't surprised that May's story about U.S. Marine Noah Pippin, who vanished in Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness (“Why Noah Went to the Woods,” by Mark Sundeen), was a reader favorite. But we were stunned by how many of you sent email or…
Los Angeles photographer Carlos Serrao has shot a host of star athletes, from Usain Bolt to Kobe Bryant. But photographing decathlete Trey Hardee (“Notes From an Alchemist“) presented new challenges. “The idea was to get him doing all of the decathlon events,” says Serrao, “but it…
Robert Young Pelton has traveled to war zones, been kidnapped by rebels, and tracked pirates in Somalia. Why does he keep going back?
The renowned actor and his son talk to 国产吃瓜黑料 about the fight to bring back the Colorado
Warning: The above trailer from Red Bull Media House and Garage Entertainment has no story. It's packed with epic shots: surfers riding giant slabs of water, skiers carving lines through virgin powder, and helicopters delivering athletes to…
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That was cool. That was the most annoying bike trailer on the planet. He's giving bikers a bad name. A lot of people will think one of those two things after watching the trailer for Line of Sight, a new movie that chronicles…
The stories, videos, and photos I didn't post鈥攗ntil now. 国产吃瓜黑料 High up a wall, Yosemite's silverfish greet Alex Honnold. The New York Times Three-legged gator attacks homeless man at camp, then an…
Photo: Kesu/Shutterstock I know, it's Friday and in your head you're probably half-way down the nearest trail or river already. But next week, world leaders are meeting in Rio, 20 years after their last meeting there (thus, “Rio+20”) to try to hammer out some…
Cheryl Strayed's memoir of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Wild, offers a refreshing take on outdoor writing by reminding us that a journey through the wilderness can help in overcoming the most wretched of conditions
The filmmaker behind The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom explains why she's drawn to the world's gnarliest spots
Behind the scenes of Carlos Serrao’s July cover shoot with the World’s Greatest Athlete, two-time decathlon champion Trey Hardee.
Our editors' favorite movies from this year's Mountainfilm in Telluride
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Go3vsLnjEDc%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded Sure, summer reading lists are usually filled with the latest mysteries or epic dramas to hit paperback. But for your list, consider adding a series of reports by the Salt Lake Tribune, “Our Dying Forests.” The series recently claimed the The Grantham Prize…
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Why do you fish? For the solitude or the catch? Tyler Hughen and Kahlil Hudson’s film about two friends steelheading in Alaska attempts to answer that question.
MoveShake will show two films online this Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern. One of the videos is a profile of Shannon Galpin, the founder of Mountain2Mountain. Galpin formed the non-profit in 2006 to help the women and girls of Afghanistan. Two years…
The coolest links I didn't post this week, until now. 国产吃瓜黑料 A sherpa's view of the Everest traffic jam. The New York Times 国产吃瓜黑料 without a cause. 国产吃瓜黑料 Journal On the legacy of…
Many people use Memorial Day to mark the start of their summer. More importantly, it's a day to remember those who served and died in the United States Armed Forces. Here are three 国产吃瓜黑料 features that document the sacrifices made by men and women in the military.
No better place to be on Memorial Day weekend. Photo: MountainFilm Telluride MountainFilm Festival kicks off today鈥 always one of the best reasons to decamp to this gorgeous box canyon in southern Colorado鈥檚 San Juan Mountains. The schedule鈥檚 packed with outdoor screenings, panel…
“I don't think there's anything like that thing of walking up to the edge of a new bowl and going up to it like, 'Oh my God. I can't believe that they built this thing and they built it so good,'” says Jeff Ament. “You…
Some of the coolest stuff I didn't post this week. 国产吃瓜黑料 Four confirmed dead in two days on Everest. A detailed story from the mountain. 国产吃瓜黑料 The most mega-infectious stoke you'll find online today. A…
Immediately off a new national distribution agreement with Comcast XFinity TV, America鈥檚 active lifestyle leader, 国产吃瓜黑料 Television has entered into a new partnership with the Volvo Ocean Race to provide America鈥檚 TV audience high-definition action coverage of all 10 in-port legs of the worldwide event, beginning in…
Watch Camp4Collective's award-winning documentary film about a 2008 attempt to climb the Shark's Fin that nearly killed Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk
The independent programmer dedicated to the nation鈥檚 more than 140 million active outside enthusiasts to be available on Xfinity TV鈥檚 Sports Entertainment Package. Independently owned 国产吃瓜黑料 Television will begin to launch on Comcast鈥檚 Xfinity TV systems across the country starting in June 2012. The 国产吃瓜黑料 Television channel, born of the…
A book about cycling and bike culture presents findings from a study about the social behaviors of cyclists in an entertaining way
A quick round-up of the week's best links. 国产吃瓜黑料 A profile of 11-year-old climbing prodigy Ashima Shiraishi. Who says it gets too cold in Colorado for winter bouldering? Not this guy. Start saving your pennies. A…
Later this month, Ken Burns will screen his new documentary The Dust Bowl at Mountainfilm in Telluride. On November 18 and 19, PBS will air his two-part, four-hour documentary on…
Visionary environmentalist David Brower birthed the modern conservation movement in the 1950s with his aggressive, principled defense of the earth. Kenneth Brower celebrates his father's legacy in his new book, The Wildness Within.
The Potomac River聽 Photo: MV Jantzen/American Rivers River conservancy American Rivers just released its 27th annual America鈥檚 Most Endangered Rivers report, naming the Potomac the most threatened river. This waterway earned the top spot not so much…
We鈥檝e all heard of prodigal athletes鈥攖he seven-year-old ripping free skier, the two-year-old boulderer, teen mountaineers, the baby who starts skiing before she can walk, and the 12-year-old skateboarder who becomes the first athlete ever to land a 1080. Some of these…
Here’s the stuff I liked, but didn’t post, just in case you’re looking for something to read or watch this weekend. 国产吃瓜黑料 In Praise of Moms Who Crush Requiem for a Mullethead: RIP Adam Yauch…
Join us on Thursday, May 17, between 6 and 9 p.m. MST to watch the full version of Travis Rummel and Ben Knight award-winning documentary.
Stacey Peralta's latest documentary鈥攁nd three other new films鈥攑rove that blockbuster season can be smart
Watch Felt Soul Media's award-winning documentary about the fight to save Bristol Bay, Alaska鈥檚 salmon from an open-pit mine
Screenshots from Instagram A few weeks ago, the Internet started humming over the news that Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion鈥攊t was a great investment for…