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ArchiveIn these fragile, frigid ecosystems, the phrase tread lightly takes on a whole new meaning
The world's largest scuba-training company plunges into the treacherous depths of technical diving, where fatalities are the accepted price for adrenaline
Some peaceful recreation on a journey from Gallipoli to Troy, where the echoes of war never die
The 国产吃瓜黑料 25 All-Stars
A major new resort opens in the affordable Great White North, where they apparently didn't get the word that skiing is dead
One climber broke his back. One wandered in a daze. One tried, and failed, to save a friend. They all left behind a moment and a place that would haunt a dead mountaineer's daughter for decades. A pilgrimage in search of a lost father.
The final equation: Reinforce that joint with a few good exercises
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. camps in the Arctic and asks why big oil can't keep its hands off America's largest patch of wilderness
SKIER'S HOP Start with your left leg on the ground and your right leg planted on an 8- to 12-inch-high platform. In one motion, use your right leg to leap laterally over the platform and land in the opposite of the starting position. Repeat, leaping from side to side…
Enter the pucker zone: Alaska's Chugach Range, land of waist-deep powder and drop-dead steeps, where the best big-mountain freeskiers in the world come to unhook. Up here, however, being best isn't the point.
Searching for the keys to endurance, a ski racer pushes his body and heart to the limit鈥攗ntil his father's sudden illness changes all the rules
Having blown both knees, the Olympic champ is back with her twice-proven prescription for total recovery
A cold mountain, a mismatched pair, and a meditation on the strange chemistry of partnership
Learning to become the captain of your own fate.
YOU DON’T float the Desolation and Gray Canyons of the Green River for the rapids. You go for a blissfully mellow trip through remote wilderness. During a trip down the Green one recent fall, an old friend and I didn’t wear life jackets or get our feet wet for eight…
Around the world in 65 days? The competitors who plan to make good on Bruno Peyron's dream.
Boat designer Adrian Thompson and skipper Pete Goss set out to revolutionize catamaran design with Team Philips. Will it survive its 25,000-mile shakedown cruise?
Cam Lewis says he knows the risks鈥攁nd he's ready. Ready to sprint 25,000 miles in one of the fastest wind-driven vessels ever to grace the ocean, and become the first American skipper to set a round-the-world speed sailing record. That is, if he and his boat make it back in one piece.
New catamaran cruisers serve up sailing and diving adventure in Belize's pristine outer atolls
If you want to get high, there's still a price to be paid for invading the towering ranges鈥攄espite some newfangled shortcuts
You could call it a youthful passion, but why mince words? What seized the author at age 19 was a fateful obsession with El Capitan.
Using cutting-edge techniques, three young mavericks set out to tackle one of the hardest routes in the Himalayas
Fall Special: The Indoor Climber's Guide to Gear, Training, and Access
Meet the toughest wall rats ever. Some of them are still redpointing routes (fused ankles and broken backs notwithstanding). Or running their own companies. Or passing the torch to young acolytes. A portrait gallery of American climbing's greatest generation.
Sometimes you just have to escape into the night, where unpredictable rendezvous and things that bite await you
Where the water is calm, the camping greatand the sea kayaking takes you to a world of beautiful swimmers
Who is Barry Clausen and why has his two-bit cloak-and-dagger act made so many radical environmentalists, FBI agents, animal rights activists, and conservative ideologues furious?
Warning: Research at your own risk. Welcome to the new frontier, where scientists use extreme adventure skills in the wild pursuit of knowledge.
Has this tired old world been explored-out? Not Down Under, where uncharted, bottomless slot canyons hide just west of Sydney.
The Rise and Fall and Exile and Triumphant Possible Return of Rod of Massachusetts to the Battle-Torn Bedouin Kingdom of Dahab
IPO sluts, "lifestyle" vintners, and eco-radicals bearing lawsuits. Eroding hillsides, glassy-winged sharpshooters, and an imperiled river with dying steelhead. Napa Valley has them all, and each lends its own bouquet of New Economy hilarity, nose-out-of-joint agrarian rage, and NIMBY intolerance to wine country's unique, full-bodied blend of environmental poli
Once a year, the adventurous Jenkins boys will be boys, reforging the bonds of brotherly affection by nearly killing themselves
Rediscovering Antarctica
Floating through class V whitewater and grizzly country in the shadow of Mount McKinley
For a Wyoming omni-sport adventure, start here...
There's nothing more all-American than a long summer road trip鈥攅xcept maybe a long summer road trip sponsored by a kayak company. Meet the hard-drivin', trick-huckin', heart-throbbin' river punks that may just turn freestyle kayaking into whitewater's answer to snowboarding.
Would you buy an environmental policy from this man?
Will Al Gore's green vision lead him to the Oval Office? Knock on wood.
Canoeing pioneers unveil the new 700-plus Northern Forest Canoe Trail
An outsized wilderness lives on in mythic dreams and salvaged hope
The 29er gives the flagging sport of sailing a facewash
We liberate the sport of fly-fishing and take you back to the clean and simple basics. Now go fish.
What's a brilliant woman like this doing in a rough-and-tumble sport like downhill mountain-bike racing? Trying to think her way to the top of the winner's podium, that's what.
Will Earth's most fragile unexplored ecosystems survive the age of adventure?
Guy Waterman had climbed every peak in the Northeast high country鈥攊n winter, and from all the cardinal directions. With his wife, he had co-authored four scrupulously principled books on New England wilderness, and he was revered as the conscience of the mountains, a beloved teacher and friend, a paragon of Yankee self-reliance. Why, then, did he hike to the top of his favorite peak on the coldest day of the year and lie down to die?
On Alaska's most dangerous body of water, a rugged band of sailors lives to sail鈥攁nd to tell about it
It’s not easy to add up all the ways in which Lance Armstrong has earned the title of American hero. Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong First he was the fiery phenom, a brilliant athlete on the brink of greatness. Then he showed us the vulnerable, terrified, but always…
Lloyd Pye鈥攚riter, paranormalist, possible wighat鈥攔eveals the true origins of the starchild
Is it ever too late to become the caring parent you thought you could be? To find out, one man went in search of his adopted manatee鈥攐nly to discover the many injustices that humankind has heaped upon these hapless marine mammals. And when Junior is fat, slow, and endangered, family values are nothing more than an easy way to break your heart.
Surrounded by a staggering array of hazardous waste, toxic emissions, chemical pollutants, and lethal military experimentation, the Goshute tribe of Utah decided to do the logical thing and offer up its reservation as a dump for 40,000 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear fuel. The neighbors are very upset.
Successful guerrilla angling requires stealth, perseverance, and an insatiable, what-the-hell willingness to hunt for fish in some damn weird places
A noisy controversy roils the quest to catch the big one
The treacherous history of the Matterhorn can be read in books and snowy graveyards, but to write it you've got to survive it
It's just a few short miles from the neon strip to the inky desert beyond. But to a solitary walker on her way out of town, the worlds of casino palaces and redrock spires might as well be galaxies apart.
Canoeing the Bronx River is sheer metro adventure
From beginning to middle to end and back again, one adventure leads to another. So hold tight鈥攊t's a long ride
The leatherback frogmen of the NYPD Scuba Squad patrol a hellish world beyond noir, where body parts abound, the water's filthy, and mob victims wear concrete shoes. And get this鈥攖hey love it.
The peaks of the Italian Alps may look daunting, but climbing them is la dolce vita.
Carl and Lowell Skoog are blazing virgin trails in the backcountry's wild white yonder
A crash course in old-growth tree climbing (it's tree hugging's rambunctious younger sibling). Wanna come out and have some deep fun?
Come ski Mad River Glen, where it is resolved that progress is not a good thing鈥攁nd that man-made snow is for sissies
After all the bad weather, bad luck, and bad food, there was only one thing left for the publishers and producers of the next big adventure blockbuster to do: Kill the writer.
It takes a brave heart, a keen interest in cryogenics, and a thick coating of neoprene to climb into an iceboat and fly across a frozen lake at upwards of 60 miles per hour. But hey, hard-water sailors don't mind. What else would they do with all their free time?
A partner drops out, one thing leads to another, and suddenly our hero finds that peer pressure has him fighting for his life
A corps of rock rats in a hurry is putting the pedal to the mettle in big-wall climbing
Last winter was among the deadliest avalanche seasons on record in the United States and Europe. Why is the number of fatalities rising? And what's being done about it?
Avalanche-safety wisdom to help you survive with the fittest
It’s as American as Mom, apple pie, and the lust for elbow room: to find and purchase a slice of country heaven to call your own. A place to sleep under the stars and think wide-open thoughts. To put up a cabin. To watch the trees grow…
THIS DREAM OF LAND, of owning it—where does it start, how deep is it rooted? Go Stake Your Claim Ever fantasized about heading off into the country and building a little place with good views and a porch for the rocking chair? Here’s your blueprint on how to make…
The Pacific Rim's most explosive endurance sport combines speed, pain, and ancient tradition
What gets the equivalent of 1,000 miles per gallon, doesn't pollute, will save the world, and transports you in breezy style? Your bike.
A Wetland Restoration Comedy: how one man transformed vile, polluted, dank little swamp into the perfect glassy ice pond