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ArchiveCambodian children enjoy their new bikes. Courtesy of 88Bikes. Is there any greater pleasure for a kid than receiving a bike for Christmas? I still remember racing down the stairs on Christmas day so many years ago to find a big red…
Filmmaker David Lavallee follows a drop of water from Canada’s crown to the sea, and on the way, discovers the true price of developing Alberta’s tar sands. Read the top environmental stories of 2011 here.
Despite Hillary Clinton's visit amid reports of political reforms, Burma's government is still waging war against its citizens. ROWAN JACOBSEN speaks with photojournalist Ryan Libre, who has documented the Kachin people for four years.
SENSE OF FLYING from Goovinn on Vimeo. We're used to seeing amazing BASE jumping and wingsuit flying videos laid down over techno soundtracks with gratuitous slow mo. They're great. The video above works for a different reason. It starts out with the simple sounds of…
From Thom Beers, the creator of the Emmy-winning Deadliest Catch, comes the new eight-part series Bering Sea Gold, premiering on Discovery Channel Friday, January 27, 10PM ET/PT.
Does disabled climber Craig Demartino make it to the summit of Yosemite’s El Capitan? Plus, a look back at two years of story telling in the final episode of The Season.
A collection of the web's best running blogs, from journalists, fans, and runners
The best sites for health advice and commentary, so you can get online and go outside
Two emerging novelists debunk the myth that rural living is easy
Alec Wilkinson revisits a failed polar attempt from the heroic age of Arctic exploration
You like to read product reviews and news online. You research the hell out of every purchase. Here鈥檚 what you should have bookmarked.
Our writers and editors share their favorite sites on running, biking, climbing, and more
Need a little outdoor inspiration? Here are the best places online to get it.
The best sites for expert race commentary, gear reviews, and bike porn
Yes, it's that time of year again. Forget the Thanksgiving turkey and the Christmas presents for loved ones. (Though, I beg you, don't forget the sweet potato pie.) 'Tis the season to start planning your trip to Elko, Nevada for the 28th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Screenshot from YouTube Video Mitch DoBrowner: Epic Storms Google has released a series of videos showing how people use the company's tools for work and play. Yes, it's a promotional campaign, and yes, Google search is a business. But the…
Our favorite flicks from Canada鈥檚 premier adventure film fest
Greg Hill returns to Washington’s Mt. Rainier to confront the mountain that kicked off his skiing career and ski the classic Fear Finger.
After eleven days of casting for Klamath’s elusive ghost run of steelhead, fisherman Ryan Peterson gets wet giving it one final attempt.
Craig Demartino attempts the first all disabled ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan. Eight hundred feet off the deck, disaster strikes.
In 2010, Ed Stafford completed a 4,000-mile-plus, 860-day trek across the Amazon. His journey is chronicled in the new documentary, Walking the Amazon, premiering November 19th on the Discovery Channel.
How will an oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C.’s coast effect the Great Bear Wilderness? Trip Jennings and Andy Maser investigate in Spoil. Watch the whole film here.
Included in our聽Top 10 Films from Banff, this claymation short from the folks at Public Ritual shreds the gnar using some seriously impressive stop-motion animation. Support from Sherpas Cinema and Solomon Freeski TV.
Sender Films‘ vertigo-inducing flick follows the rivalry between Hans Florine and Dean Potter for the speed record up Yosemite’s El Capitan.
Call it conservation 2.0. Jared Criscuolo and Kristian Gustavson are building a visual database of America鈥檚 most imperiled rivers and crowdsourcing their restoration online.
The first woman to make a feature film on Everest talks about spending 40 Days at Base Camp
Climber Freddie Wilkinson talks to us about the unsung heroes he found while writing One Mountain, Thousand Summits
Skier Greg Hill returns to the mountain that started his ski-mountaineering career: Washington’s Mt. Rainier.
The 29-year-old cinematographer and alpinist talks about bagging the first ascent of GII in winter and the making of Cold
Climber Craig Demartino trains for the first ever all-disabled ascent of Yosemite’s infamous El Capitan.
聽Steelhead fisherman Ryan Peterson gets a bite. Is it the fish of his dreams?…
REI, Recreational Equipment Inc., a Seattle-based gear co-op we think you’ve probably heard of, seems to have hired away Santa’s most creative elves just before the holidays. The company just announced its online聽Winter Gear Guide, which highlights the best winter gear, explains techy terms like rocker, and gives…
We've covered the dangers captive orcas pose when in close proximity to people鈥攔ead Blood in the Water and Killer in the Pool. This morning, news broke that PETA and some former…
The story of one surfer’s journey to save dolphins and whales from slaughter.聽Minds in the Water聽is touring the West Coast in October 2011.
Disabled climber Craig Demartino makes a life list of climbs he wants to tick off with one able leg. His last big goal: climb Yosemite’s El Capitan.
Ski mountaineer Greg Hill logged two million vertical feet in the backcountry last year. What’s his next big challenge?…
Ryan Peterson chases a run of ghost fish on California’s Klamath River and learns why steelhead are the fish of a 10,000 casts.
Now that those warm days at the lake have passed, people are updating their YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook pages with videos of their proudest summer stunts. Some include inner tube rides that end in nasty wipeouts, others show error prone attempts on the slip and slide, and more…
Timeline has released the trailer to the new documentary about snowboarder Xavier De Le Rue, “This is My Winter.” It will make the rounds at film festivals this fall and winter, starting with Banff.
Thomasina Pidgeon searches for a climbing-life balance in the nomadic existence of a world-class boulderer.
A rare run of winter steelhead is rumored to spawn in California’s Klamath River. Fly fisherman Ryan Peterson aims to catch one.聽…
They control the lands you play on, the athletes you worship, the gear you buy, even the food you eat. Meet the 25* most influential people in the world outside. *Ranked in order of influence
The Peregrine, J. A. Baker鈥檚 1963 classic of ecology come unhinged, receives a stunning homage from an unlikely source.
Twice a week for the next three months we’ll feature the Season 2, the story of five athletes pursuing their outdoor passions. Meet the crew in Episode One.
Mountain bikers Kevin and Jeremy start their quest to build the perfect trail.
Boulderer Thomasina Pidgeon picks her goal for the season and sets out to climb the Method, a V12 in Squamish, British Columbia.
Kevin and Jeremy find what could be mountain-biking paradise in a burn scar. Now all they have to do is build the perfect trail.
There鈥檚 no better way to learn about a country you plan to visit than reading about it, and local writing is the most authentic storytelling you鈥檒l find. Until now, it鈥檚 been difficult to find translations of works written in places like North Korea, Iraq and even Europe.
Climber Craig Demartino takes a ground fall and lives to keep climbing鈥揵ut under a very different reality.
When you鈥檙e traveling in the wilderness, a well-stocked med kit can mean the difference between a minor snafu and a major nightmare. This is true whether you鈥檙e adventuring alone or with a bevy of little rippers.
Thomasina makes progress on her V12 project, and balances the challenges of being a parent and a world-class athlete.
The Camp Fire Girls was informally started in 1910 as the sister organization to the Boy Scouts of America. Luther Halsey Gulick and his wife Charlotte established Camp WoHeLo (“WOrk, HEalth, and LOve”), a camp for girls,…
Top billing. Photo: Adam Roy Last Thursday, some 1,800 people came out for the premiere of the sixth annual Reel Rock Tour at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. The tour is always popular, but this year,…
Starting in October, we’ll feature 15 episodes of Salomon’s Freeski TV. Here is what we can expect to see.
The American craft-brew movement is alive and well, with 1,800 breweries in the U.S. and hundreds more coming soon. With all those suds, how do you find the best brews? Go and taste them.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Photo courtesy National Park Service This review is the first for my list of the 34 best travel books you've never read, posted in no particular order. Up first, Poets on the Peaks, a travelogue that chronicles the varied routes the Beats took…
A story of the people working to save our beaches. One Beach premiers in New York City tonight.
A passionate look at bodysurfing in Woodshed Film‘s lastest, Come Hell or High Water. Read more in Madison Kahn’s interview with filmmaker Keith Malloy.
Lots of online gear shop websites scale to fit your iPad or phone screen, and some shops have special smartphone apps. Until now, none that we've seen have made buying skis, packs or socks from a mobile device more pleasurable or easier than on a home computer.聽Backcountry.com's…
Until his paralysis, Josh Dueck was an aspiring pro skier. Now, he’s pushing the limits of sit-skiing, winning competitions and going big in the backcountry.
Jeb Corliss flying near Tianmen Hole, Courtesy of Jeb Corliss Yesterday, we posted a super slowmo video of Jeb Corliss fying in a wingsuit so low to the ground that he was able to hit the string…
Probably the most talked about moment in Jeb Corliss's latest video, “Grinding the Crack,” occurs when a man holding balloons dives to the left as Corliss flies dangerously close to him, and the…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/L35qBS7XqvI聽Sender Films and Big UP just released the trailer for the sixth annual Reel Rock climbing film tour, which kicks off in Boulder on September 15. The show will take six climbing films on the road (five by Sender and Big UP, plus Cold, a mountaineering documentary shot by…
An exclusive clip from the River Why, a feature film based on David James Duncan’s classic fly-fishing novel of the same name.
Five athletes, five sports, one season. For the second year running, Fitz Cahall and Bryan Smith bring you 22 web episodes of athletes playing in British Columbia. Here is what we can expect to see.
After 34 books, endless Hemingway comparisons, and too many battles with gout, legendary author Jim Harrison is unsurpassed at chronicling man's relationship with wilderness. His secret? Ample wine, cigarettes, fly-fishing鈥攁nd an inability to give a damn about what anyone else thinks. Our author takes a literary pilgrimage to Montana.
Photo by Ashala Tylor (See more pictures and get more updates on her blog and Flickr) When photographer Ashala Tylor heard a loud knock at her door early one morning in late June,…
Freestyle kayaker Dane Jackson grew up on the river, living out of his family鈥檚 RV and trying to keep up with his peripatetic, four-time world champion super-daddy聽Eric Jackson.聽Back in 2007, when I hung out with the Jacksons at their home in Rock Island, Tennessee, while reporting a聽…
Brain Farm productions, along with the best cameras in the industry, changed the rules of action-sports filmmaking with their latest, The Art of Flight.
Traveler and author Mark Twain filled 50 journals before he died. He wrote sketches for stories and characters, schemes for inventions, observations, drawings and dirty jokes in his little notebooks. He always had one on him to remember the little oddities of the world…
In one year, Eric Larson mounted an unprecedented expedition to the polar trifecta: the North Pole, the South Pole, and Everest. Here is a preview of his story, which will be released by year’s end.
Author John Gimlette's travelogue through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana is filled with adventure, from errant grenades to American cult suicides and tales of half-settled slave revolts.
Arctic adventurer Lynne Cox tackles the legend of Roald Amundsen