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Stacey Peralta's latest documentary鈥攁nd three other new films鈥攑rove that blockbuster season can be smart
Deep within the Grand Canyon are secret and intimate tributaries rarely visited by man. This is the story of these slots and the canyoneers who systematically explore their drainages.
Watch Andrew Wonder's award-winning documentary about urban explorer and guerrilla historian Steve Duncan's forays into New York City's tunnels
High-wire artist Nik Wallenda announced late last week that he would walk over Niagara Falls with no safety harness on June 15. Wallenda will cross a two-inch wide 1,800-foot-long cable strung roughly 200…
Here's some of the best stuff from around the Web. Olympics Norwegian swimmer Alexander Dale Oen dies after training in Flagstaff, Arizona.聽 The PBS American Experience show on Jesse Owens. Check out this…
This week, a bunch of international news outlets reported on the movement of debris from the Japanese tsunami around the Pacific. This interactive graphic from The Guardian mapped the path of the marine debris best. Around the…
Dodging grizzlies and calving glaciers in John Hopkins Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park聽 Yesterday I caught up with Michael Lanza, author of the season鈥檚 must-read new memoir about bringing up adventure kids in the age of climate change:聽Before They鈥檙e Gone: A Family鈥檚 Year-Long…
What does it take to succeed? This is the untold story of a record-breaking athlete struggling to continue her career in the sport she loves and an amateur aiming to become professional.
America's leading active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine is looking for a new assistant or associate editor 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…
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The following report in the case against Mortenson for allegedly fabricating stories told in his best-selling books, Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, was released on April 30, 2012
In Broke, which screened as a work-in-progress at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Billy Corben explores the whys and hows of an all-too-familiar coda to a pro athlete's career
Watch Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic's award-winning documentary short about the tragic last descent of expedition kayaker Hendri Coetzee
This past Friday, Vimeo announced the finalists for its 2012 Awards. This year, the site added an action sports category, with 12 shorts contending to win the award. There are movies representing a variety of sports and locations, from surfing Ireland (“…
At the Tribeca Film Festival, which came to a close this past weekend, I had the chance to catch eight sports and environmental documentaries that riveted me with tales of physical hardship鈥攁nd consequently, in many cases, mental hardship. In The Last Ice Merchant, a 68-year-old ice miner makes weekly treks…
Actor Chris Pratt recruited Fredric Golding to follow Washington state's Lake Stevens High wrestling team for five months and document their grueling training. This is what he saw.
A round-up of the best videos, photos, and stories I didn’t get a chance to post. Olympics Usain Bolt thinks people expect him to run 9.4 seconds in the 100. A profile of the woman who…
Knuckleball!, which premiered last Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival, traces the careers of pitchers R.A. Dickey and Tim Wakefield as they navigate the ups and downs of their marginalized society
The adventurer and television personality has come face to face with tigers, snakes, crocodiles, and more. He's been hospitalized more times than he can count. But he wouldn't give it up for anything.
Todd Balf鈥檚 new book unearths a nail-biting 19th-century adventure story all but lost to history
A new documentary short playing at the Tribeca Film Festival tells the story of Leonid and his pregnant wife, Lyudmila, a couple that lived just miles from the nuclear power plant when it went into meltdown
In February of 2011, a group of 16 friends took off to explore 22 slot canyons while rafting 280 miles of river in the Grand Canyon. They recorded their month-long canyoneering journey and turned it into a film, The Last of…
A few months have gone by since we were honored by the team at 国产吃瓜黑料, and its high time we gave you an update. Kristian and I have been in hot pursuit of our dreams and vision, which are inspired by a world with clean and healthy watersheds so we…
A review of Benji, a documentary premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival that revisits the murder of a 1980s high school basketball phenom
For the past five decades, 68-year-old Baltazar Ushca has made a living by harvesting glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador. His work is no longer needed, but he still gets up every morning to climb to 16,000 feet.
Here's a bunch of stories I didn't write, a bunch of videos I didn't post, and a bunch of photos I just didn't call out for whatever reason this week. I like them all and think they're worth your time. Please let me know if there's anything I missed. (And…
Jason Mecier artwork, on auction for Keep America Beautiful. Brought to you by Glad Bags. “If I get one more email on the subject, I'm going to celebrate Earth Day by kicking Gaia in the nuts,” declared journalist…
In Town of Runners, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Jerry Rothwell travels to Bekoji, Ethiopia鈥攁 hotbed of world-class long-distance runners such as Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele…
In Paraiso Nadav Kurtz follows three Mexican immigrants as they make a living washing the windows of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers
For the last five decades, Baltazar Ushca has made a living harvesting glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador…
Image courtesy of Central Asia Institute The lawsuits started roughly a year ago and they have evolved over time to include new and different plaintiffs, but today will be the first day that lawyers for Greg Mortenson, CAI,…
Three immigrant window cleaners risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers. Para铆so reveals the danger of their job and what they see on the way down.
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Ep. 181: Extreme Skiing HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel just sent out a press release announcing the airing of a special segment on backcountry skiing tonight at 10 EST. In the clip above, extreme…
Eight of the biggest icons in the world 国产吃瓜黑料 offer their hard-earned tips
Ikal聽Angelei on the shores of Lake Turkana. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize Running Ethiopia's Omo River聽can be a serious adventure, as we described here in 2008, but more importantly, the river is a lifeline for those who rely on the water and…
Conceptual artist Fabian Knecht partners with American climbers Emily Harrington and Sam Elias to take his latest performance project to the top of Everest
Mike Dion's first feature-length film, Ride The Divide, followed three cyclists on the inaugural Tour Divide, a 2,700-mile self-supported bikepacking race along the Continental Divide from Banff, Canada to Antelopes Wells, New Mexico, a dusty crossing on the…
The son of IMAX king Greg MacGillivray, Shaun MacGillivray has been on film sets from Saudi Arabia to Everest. So what has the crown prince of the giant screen learned from dear old dad? Keep an eye on the tiger, don鈥檛 smell the walrus, and never stop working.
The Office of Consumer Protection Montana Department of Justice released the following report on Greg Mortenson and Central Asia Institute on April 5, 2012
The latest Imax film takes us to the Arctic. Watch the trailer and learn more about award-winning director Greg MacGillivray and his son Shaun MacGillivray here.
A new book celebrates Ten Years of the Tour d'Afrique Bicycle Race and Expedition
Shivling Peak via Shutterstock Photograper: Galyna Andrushko As mountaineers from around the world converge in Nepal and prepare for the 2012 Everest climbing season, Apa Sherpa, the porter-turned-professional-climber who has summited the mountain 21 times, is in the midst of…
> [Video:聽Groudswell聽(Trailer)聽from the聽Patagonia Video Gallery] Keystone XL isn't the only pipeline in the works that will send oil from Alberta oil sands to far-off lands. Canadian pipeline builder Enbridge wants to build a new pipe to connect Edmonton with the port of…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DHDGv1RR2v4%C2%A0 鈥淭he Hunger Games鈥 may be rocking the box office this weekend, but we have a better bet for family night at the movies: the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. The show, which brings the best of the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival to venues on seven continents, came…
The B.C. Coast 聽Photo: Flickr/Dogwood Initiative If the U.S. doesn't allow the northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline to be built, Canada is just going to sell its oil to power-hungry China. That's one of the common rebuttals to opposition of the proposed Keystone XL…
Photo: Flickr/Harlequeen I can't kick the print habit; I love diving into the fat stack of New York Times on Sunday mornings. But I've just been reminded of the joys and sometimes superiority of electronic media. I read with interest Kim Tingley's “Whisper…
Our photo director Amy Silverman goes behind the scenes of our January cover shoot.
This morning the Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the Discovery Channel has ended its relationship with its beetle-eating megastar Bear Grylls. According to the story, the dispute concerns two unnamed projects that Discovery wanted Grylls to participate in. Discovery issued a…
A Q&A with former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on his incredibly shrinking country
Kadoma pays tribute to paddler Hendri Coetzee, who was killed by a croc in Africa. Read Consumed, Grayson Schaffer‘s story about the remarkable life of Coetzee.
I recently discovered the website, Kids Who Rip. Not sure how I missed this one, but it’s rad little video library of kids killing it on bikes, skis, kiteboards, surfboards, skateboards, balance beams, and pretty much every other conveyance and game known to childhood. You can submit…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YGGUfYFdFrc%C2%A0 The Telluride MountainFilm Festival came through Santa Fe recently, and I had the opportunity to catch up with half a dozen terrific adventure flicks that I'd missed over Memorial Day weekend in Colorado. Going to see Mountainfilm always takes ten years off my life鈥攊n a good…
Left: Horsetail Falls, 2011. Photo: Joe Azure Right: The Firefall. Photo: National Park Service The window is closing on a yearly glimpse of a natural phenomena at Yosemite National Park, during which the angle of the sun and the flow of water off…
A rainless winter means little water at the new wetlands park. Photo: Seth Strongin/TheCity Project In South Los Angeles, a former bus and rail transit station has been replaced by a nine-acre park that includes native trees and plant gardens, walking trails and…
I snuck away on Saturday for a ski day at Taos, my first of the season. The mountain was in fine form, thanks to a storm track that dumped nearly two feet of snow last week, and my little posse and I started the day with a hike to 12,481-foot…
A team of biologists and filmmakers is 32 days into a 100-day, 1000-mile trek, via kayak, bike and foot, from the southern tip of Florida up to the聽Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southern Georgia. And should you think that sounds like a bit of a pleasure cruise, check out this…
When the head of the FIS聽said ski jumping was not safe for women, Lindsey Van fought. This movie chronicles her struggle. Interview | Gallery…
It鈥檚 been ten months since Jon Krakauer and 60 Minutes alleged that the star of Three Cups of Tea was a literary fraud who used the Central Asia Institute as a personal cash cow, prompting a civil suit and an investigation by Montana鈥檚 attorney general. Mortenson still isn鈥檛 talking. But the case is heating up, with important developments in t
Nancy Black, a 49-year-old marine biologist and the co-owner of a whale watching operation in Monterey, California, has pleaded not guilty to charges that she was feeding killer whales during two filming expeditions. According to the Monterey County Herald, the government has also been investigating the Jean-Michel…
Dean Potter sets his sights on a free-BASE of Canada’s Mt. Bute, angling to break his own world record for the longest wingsuit flight. Watch the full episode on National Geographic.
Join us here on Thursday, March 22, at 6 P.M. MST to watch three of Sender’s best films and chat with the filmmakers and athletes, including Dean Potter and Ueli Steck.
I admit it: It鈥檚 a little hypocritical for a blog about raising adventurous, outdoor kids to be reviewing TV commercials, but I can鈥檛 resist reposting this ad, 鈥淭he Next Ones,鈥 which aired on the sly during the Super Bowl post-game show yesterday. The commercial, for NBC Sports Network, pays tribute…
Scouring the country鈥檚 premier film festival for the best environmental and adventure documentaries
Photo: Copyright Christo There's nothing like a mountain community scorned. As Colorado's Fremont County weighs its decision on whether to grant a land use permit to public artist Christo so he can hang a series of聽translucent fabric panels above the Arkansas River, hundreds…
An exclusive clip from a film about America as a prison state and the war on drugs.
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From a shave and shower to finding love, this is what a life lived on a bike looks like.聽 A film by Guillaume Blanchet.
A new film by Southern Underground Productions investigates why extreme sports athletes risk their lives for adrenaline. For more, read Florence Williams’ classic, This is Your Brain on 国产吃瓜黑料.
Filmmaker Mads Br眉gger goes undercover to infiltrate the African blood diamond business in his new movie, which premiered at Sundance 2012. Read the interview.
Stacy Peralta’s new movie about the early days of skateboarding for Powell and Peralta. Read an interview with Peralta about the movie.
James Balog is attempting to convince the world that the climate is changing using only photographs. Read our interview with Balog.
Read Brad Wiener‘s review of the film, and聽Mary Catherine O’Connor’s take on The Grey‘s negatival portrayal of wolves.
Sheffield 国产吃瓜黑料 Film Festival features highlights from some of the top adventure films of the past year.
Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
William Trubridge is on a mission to freedive鈥搘ithout fins or oxygen鈥揹eeper than anybody ever has before. Read James Nestor’s story on the terrifying sport of freediving, Open Your Mouth and Your Dead.
Go here to watch the full film and chat with the filmmaker, Peter McBride, on Thursday night between 6鈥9 MST.