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ArchiveNo 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…
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…
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…
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
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