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A German Shepherd is found at 13,000 feet, and rescued after surviving seven nights in the cold. How did she get there, and what happened to her owner?
Deal with hurt pets like you would deal with a human emergency: use common sense. And if you鈥檙e heading into the woods for a day or longer, bring a first aid kit that will work for man and beast alike.
Make sure to bring these emergency items on your next camping or hiking trip
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MT1DhcQg0Os On Sunday, Felix Baumgartner successfully completed a jump from 24 miles above the earth, free falling at a speed of more than 700 miles per hour before landing safely on the ground. In case you missed the livestream of his feat, here are…
Leaves of three, leave it be. Photo: Shutterstock When I was in seventh grade, my parents took my six siblings and I out of school for a late spring vacation to the East Coast. We camped along the way and eventually…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MrIxH6DToXQ UPDATE 2:30 EST: According to unofficial numbers from Red Bull Stratos, Felix Baumgartner broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight and the highest freefall on Sunday when he jumped from roughly 28,000 feet above the earth and fell for four minutes and 20 seconds before landing safely…
On solid ground. Photo: Red Bull On Sunday at 11:31 a.m. EST, 43-year-old Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner lifted off in a capsule attached to a 55-story balloon made of plastic one-tenth the…
On Tuesday, masked Taliban gunmen boarded a bus filled with schoolchildren in Pakistan and shot a 14-year-old girl in the head. Her name is Malala Yousafzai, and she is now in critical condition in a Peshawar hospital. She openly voiced her belief that…
On July 8, 25-year-old journalist Filipe Leite straddled one of his two horses and rode out of the Calgary Stampede under the escort of the Royal Mounted Police to start a 10,000-mile, two-year-long, 12-country journey that he hopes will end on his family鈥檚 ranch…
Photo: Joe Bell/Flickr On Thursday, 国产吃瓜黑料 Ethics published a story based on our investigation of the outcome of a solo fatbiking-packrafting expedition, launched this spring by Andrew Badenoch and based on a…
Katie Heaney walks into the longest cave in Wisconsin and, despite the bats, the darkness, and the bats, makes it out alive
Ever wondered how to survive a volcanic eruption? Not sure what to do when zombies inevitably take over? Don't worry, we've got you covered.
Andrew Badenoch raised nearly $10,500 via Kickstarter to fund his zero-fuel Arctic adventure, but he abandoned his trip and left his backers in the dark. Andrew Badenoch. Photo: Joe Bell Back in February, I wrote about Andrew Badenoch, an ambitious…
Tips for surviving seven of the world's deadliest adventures
国产吃瓜黑料 readers love to lend a hand. Here, a longtime subscriber and former energy executive shows us how to take it to another level.
David Page gets a crash course in foraging and learns to appreciate nature's bounty (and the flavor of a good fire-roasted grasshopper) along the way
Here's one thing that will increase the attention paid to competitive longboarding: a deer crashing into a rider. During a run in the Buffalo Bill Downhill, near Golden, Colorado, a skateboarder flying down Lookout Mountain Road captured footage of a deer bounding into…
Odyssey Marine's archeological discoveries from the ocean floor
The route. Photo: The Coldest Journey “There is no colder part of the Earth than the surface of the Antarctic icecap in winter.” 鈥擜ccuWeather.com expert senior meteorologist Jim Andrews No one has ever attempted to cross…
After more than 11 years and 1,000 jumps, Norwegian BASE jumper Espen Fadnes has had plenty of time to think about motivation. That's because most of his time has not been spent…
In 2010, Gareth Jones and Aaron Chervenak quit their day jobs and split for the Amazon with little more than a portable canoe, paddles, cameras, and camping gear. They paddled for weeks, ate piranha, drank coffee made from river water, set up their hammocks, and drifted off…
M51, The Whirlpool Galaxy. Photo: The Royal Observatory Photographer of the Year/Martin Pugh Australian Martin Pugh nabbed the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012 award from…
As parents, it鈥檚 easy to get caught up in the saga of our own children. Their all-consuming schedules, school, sports, our own fraught expectations. We want them to be smart, kind, and game. We want them to play outside and be healthy. We want them to remember their manners, read…
West Mata eruption. Photo: NSF/NOAA In 2009, scientists on a cruise in the Western Pacific sent a remotely operated vehicle 4,000 feet below the ocean surface and discovered a two-mile high volcano called West Mata erupting 2,200-degree Fahrenheit lava in bursts scattered over the area…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TfCb33_nPe0 For more than 10 years, Survivorman Les Stroud has ventured into the backcountry alone and recorded his wilderness experiences. He’s traveled to more than 25 locations, racked up 200 days of solitude, and…
Entering the cave. Photo: Rechitan Soran/Shutterstock Not long before Thanksgiving in 2009, 26-year-old University of Virginia medical student John Jones, his wife Emily, and their 13-month-old daughter flew home to Utah. Emily was pregnant, and the couple…
It started as a bluebird New Year's Day in Mount Rainier National Park. But when a gunman murdered a ranger and then fled back into the park's frozen backcountry, every climber, skier, and camper became a suspect鈥攁nd a potential victim.
Climber hanging. Photo: Rudall30/Shutterstock Scientist Daniel Lack used experience as a motivator for his study on climbing rescues, deaths, and accidents in Boulder County, Colorado. Lack started climbing at 24 at the Kangaroo Point…
Normally, Kilian Martin's skateboarding videos feature tightly edited footage of spins, headstands, and ollies set to lilting or brooding music. The 25-year-old Spaniard's choreographed freestyle moves play like a ballet, with his board flying gracefully over concrete, off brick walls, and down metal rails. In…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F7VghMbLiMA Last week, the West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce posted a video of a bison charging children on its Facebook page鈥攁ccompanied by a scolding: “This video is one that makes us angry, expecially at the irresponsible person behind the…
Today, there is a $30 million Lunar X-Prize for the first team to land a robot on the moon, a $10 million Genomics X-Prize for the first team to accurately sequence 100 human genomes, and a $10 million Tricorder X-Prize for a mobile device that can offer an electronic health…
It's hard to pick a specific moment to highlight from this video of Alexander Polli. He pilots his wingsuit dangerously close to several outcroppings at ridiculous speeds, winds through incredibly narrow canyons, and then zips through a waterfall. He said it felt as though the spray hit every part…
The staff of 国产吃瓜黑料 has more than a passing interest in this year's 621-mile, 25-station Mongol Derby. That's because the man currently in 11th place is former 国产吃瓜黑料 intern Will Grant, 31. The race started with 35 competitors who will ride roughly 1,000 semi-wild…
国产吃瓜黑料 correspondent Steven Rinella talks to his longtime editor, Mary Turner, about his new book (and TV show of the same name) Meat Eater, how he got started fishing and hunting, and why he鈥檒l never stop
The Tamaroa on the way to help the crew of the sailboat Satori. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard, 1991 No ship has cut a path through history quite like the Zuni/Tamaroa. Soon after the Navy commissioned the 205-foot salvage…
Katie Heaney won't ever climb Mount Everest, but she's ready to step outside and try some things鈥攍ike looking for a moose
World record vertical formation attempt. Photo: Brian Buckland By Brian Buckland On August 1, 2012, I joined more than 138 skydivers from…
GE recently built a pretty exhaustive interactive graphic showing the history of world records from August 29, 1900, to May 5, 2012. The data visualization displays the number of world records set by year, by country, and by sport. It also offers a…
On Monday morning at approximately 1:32 Eastern, the new rover Curiosity touched solid ground on Mars after a flight through the planet's atmosphere that NASA dubbed “seven minutes of terror.” The state-of-the-art exploratory vehicle will photograph and take samples to see if there…
Earlier this week, video surfaced of 42-year-old French stuntman Jean-Yves Blondeau flying down Tianmen Mountain at speeds of more than 50 miles per hour in a 34-wheeled rollerblading suit. It took him just under 20 minutes to navigate 99 turns and…
Project Angel Thunder is the largest search-and-rescue exercise in the world, involving 1,700 pilots, commandos, and recovery specialists training in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico to save your ass in some impossibly bad situations. Embed Brian Mockenhaupt discovers that while the scenarios are pure fiction, the game is deadly serious.
3rd Place: Meandering Mississippi Landsat 7 Acquired 5/28/2003, Small, blocky shapes of towns, fields, and pastures surround the graceful swirls and whorls of the Mississippi River, the largest river system in North America. Countless oxbow lakes and cutoffs accompany the meandering river south of Memphis, Tennessee,…
Fabiola in smoke. Photo: Brian Nevins This past April, 33-year-old, Hampton, New Hampshire-based photographer Brian Nevins won the Telus Pro Photographer Showdown in Whistler, British Columbia. It鈥檚 one of…
Telluride Mountain School students explore the Needle Mountains. Photo: Jamie Salem By Emily Brendler Shoff The older kids get, the easier it is to take them into the backcountry. This is even true for teenagers, who, despite getting a bad rap for being addicted to all…
Maybe you've never heard of Lucky Chance鈥攂orn Toby Benham鈥攂ut the Australian climber, circus act, and all-around stunt monkey was testing the limits of BASE jumping in 2011 when he survived a horrible mountainside crash in France. What happens when a highflier falls to earth? He starts over鈥攏o matter how daunting the prospect.
The Arctic Row Team. Photo: Arctic Row On July 15, a team of four men will attempt to complete the first non-stop unsupported row across the Arctic Ocean by journeying from Inuvik, Canada, to Providenya, Russia. The men will row their 29-foot-long, 6-foot-wide boat in shifts…
From sharks and cougars to avalanches and frozen waters, four survivors share their stories in their own words. Plus: expert commentary.
When Robert Wood Jr. disappeared in a densely forested Virginia park, searchers faced the challenge of a lifetime. The eight-year-old boy was autistic and nonverbal, and from his perspective the largest manhunt in state history probably looked like something else: the ultimate game of hide-and-seek.
After getting yanked under the barricades by a Red Cross medic, our man on the ground at the 2012 San Fermin festival chats with Jesus Muniain, who has been helping runners for 30 years
Our man on the ground at the 2012 San Fermin festival remembers the time he ran with Jimeno Romero, who was gored to death in 2009 and memorialized by his family with a special monument of flowers this year
A collection of sights and quick observations from our man on the ground at the 2012 San Fermin festival, including a conversation with brothers Peter Milligan and Aryeh Deutsch
Meet the preppers, a rattled, robust survivalist movement whose members just hate being called survivalists. Emily Matchar investigates the 21st century's wildest new apocalyptic scene.
A collection of sights and quick observations from our man on the ground at the 2012 San Fermin festival, including a conversation with the medics that rescued him from a charging steer
For some of us, the human drive to explore, even though most of the earth's surface area has already been mapped, even though it's no longer necessary in order to obtain food and shelter, endures. And in an urban environment where many public spaces are not open for public use, this drive becomes the urban explorer's urge to infiltrate.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hhwhkwE1nws Not long after launching himself off a 394-foot-tall power pylon near Konakova, Russia, a young BASE jumper's parachute failed to open properly. He fell at a speed of 105 miles per hour, according to the text below the YouTube clip, and crashed…
There is a moment in this wingsuit video that makes it play different than the rest. In it, Vincent Descols jumps off a cliff and pilots his wingsuit through turns, into a canyon, around spires, down a trail, and then over some evergreens. It's the moment between the trail and…
A collection of sights and quick observations from our man on the ground at the 2012 San Fermin festival, including a conversation with David Ubeda, who recovered from last year's broken arm to run the horns of the lead steers down Estafeta
A collection of sights and quick observations from our man on the ground at the 2012 San Fermin festival, including still photographs shot by Ernest Hemingway's great-grandson and a brief interview with bull-racing veteran "El Padre" Graeme Galloway
The things that cause 国产吃瓜黑料 employees to be late to work, or absent altogether, are the ones you might expect. In the winter, many of us are conspicuously tardy after a midnight snowstorm blows through. In the spring, when daylight pushes past 5 p.m. and Friday-night camping becomes a possibility,…
There are plenty of hungry predators roaming the USA. But the deadliest ones for humans may not be the those you expect.
Alligators and crocodiles landed in the #10 spot in the CDC's database. Photo: Shutterstock Whether it's by stinging, crushing, biting, butting, kicking, or any other variety of accidental or nefarious means, animals injure millions and kill hundreds of people every year. The…
If the team from the University of Maryland can get, and hold on to, just a bit more air, their Gamera II craft will win $250,000. To claim the AHS Sikorsky Prize, the pedal-powered helicopter needs to hover…
By Erica Lineberry When I got pregnant in the summer of 2009, I was shocked at how matter-of-fact people were with their 鈥渁dvice.鈥 Most annoying to me were the comments around my husband鈥檚 and my recreational pursuits, specifically climbing: 鈥淜iss all those crazy weekend climbing trips goodbye!鈥 and 鈥淚 guess…
In the end, the spectacle surrounding Nik Wallenda's high-wire walk over Niagara Falls forced him to change his original plans. He ended up performing the stunt while wearing a safety harness at the…
Riding down a winding mountain road at night obviously isn't something that should be tried by everyday longboarders, even if they do have Lupine lights, Contour helmetcams, and Globe boards. That said, the video…
In the stunning and remote wilderness along northern British Columbia鈥檚 Highway 16, at least 18 women鈥攂y some estimates, many more鈥攈ave gone missing over the past four decades. After years of investigation, authorities still don鈥檛 know if it鈥檚 the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders. Bob Friel drives into the darkness for answers.
The legendary daredevil talks about recovering from the accident that almost killed him
CrossFitter Mel Soria puts his functional fitness training to the test in the backwoods of Georgia, chasing down prey that's as delicious as it is dangerous
Photo: Courtesy of NASA_JSC_Photo/Flickr By now, you've probably heard of NASA's Don Pettit. If you haven't, he's the Dragon-grabbing,…
Little ripper, going big: Alex Mason at the Teva Games. Photo: Teva Mountain Games Competitive slacklining. If that sounds like an oxymoron, you must not have been in Vail this past weekend, when the sport made its debut at the annual Teva Summer…
On Monday, January 17, BASE jumper and wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss, 36, thought he was either seconds or hours away from death. He had just jumped off South Africa鈥檚 Table Mountain, misjudged a target, and flown into a granite outcropping at…
The newest professional sports league. Just five months ago, wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss thought he was moments away from death after crashing into South Africa鈥檚 Table Mountain at 120 miles…
At least two thank yous should be given for the timelapse video above. The first goes to NASA, for sharing the images of earth taken from the International Space Station for free. The second goes to a man named Adonis Pulatus, who…
One way to spend a summer evening: figuring out the most creative ways to open a bottle of beer. Another? Drinking good beer from cans. Read our picks of the best canned beer here.
Ric Gillespie has spent the past three decades looking for what he calls an 鈥渁ny-idiot artifact鈥: a bombproof discovery that will persuade the world he鈥檚 found Earhart鈥檚 crash site. Here are TIGHAR鈥檚 greatest whiffs.
A Q&A with an 国产吃瓜黑料 in Aspen participant
Tantalizing new evidence prompts an ambitious search for Amelia Earhart by a group that can't seem to quit
Inskeep couldn鈥檛 find a map that covered his route, so he pasted two together. Photo: Nick Fountain/NPR When Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep started planning a 2,000-mile-long drive from Tunis, Tunisia, to Cairo, Egypt, he couldn鈥檛 find a map detailed enough to set…
When 24-year-old Kilian Martin performs on a skateboard, some say he's dancing. The Spaniard's unique style is showcased in Kilian Martin: Altered Route, a new short by filmmaker Brett Novak. Martin began gymnastics at 10 years old, moved…
What would it be like to ride a rocket at super high speeds just above a really long road? That's the question Giacomo Miceli, a creative coder, computer scientist, and self-proclaimed entreprenerd from Rome, asked himself as a child. He decided to find out as…