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Jesper Stechmann is a World Champion Freediver who was raised in Denmark. From the ripe age of six years old, he began holding his breath under water and since then, he's lived much of his life under the surface of the water.
Wetsuit pioneer, 鈥渁ffable pirate,鈥 and surf industry legend Jack O鈥橬eill died on Friday, June 1, at age 94. His innovations helped make the ocean accessible surfers the world over.
The founder of 'Surfer" magazine passed away earlier this week at age 83. Matt Warshaw chronicles his impact on the sport's media.
Surf Photographer DJ Struntz had a long and illustrious career as a staff photographer at Surfing Magazine, but gave it all up for his family.
Watch fly-fishing guide Maddie Brenneman and her longtime boyfriend, professional photographer Nick Kelley, kick off the fly-fishing season by loading up an RV and heading for the border in search of pristine spring creeks.
Don and Donna Shearer's birds get dispatched to rescues, James Bond sets, Jaws swells, and forest fires on the Hawaiian island
Husband and wife, Josh and Rachel set sail in November 2016 from Ventura, California. After spending 40 hard days doing boat maintenance, their boat Agape was ready for her maiden voyage.
What does it take to swim 111 miles from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage? Passion bordering on obsession.
In search of a mystical wave on the coast of Iceland Jeremy Joyce and his buddy, Jamie embarked on a very ill-advised surf trip.
On March 30, the five kayakers launched their boats at the village of La Tunia, attempting to make the first descent of the Rio Apaporis over 30 days. Twenty-one days and 500 miles later, FARC rebels ended it.
With only a few inches of the boat above water Jimmy Carter and his mentor Claude Terry, co-founder of American Rivers, completed the first tandem canoe descent of Bull's Sluice rapid.
From Octave Zangs, Together Against The Mines shares the success story of a campaign to disallow a nickel mine to be placed on the Hunter Creek watershed.
From Felt Soul Media and YETI, 120 Days follows tarpon guide David Mangum who's reputation in the area borders on scary.
This film underscores the connection between the human spirit and paddling canoes.
Our Play Now series highlights an epic POV clip so you can get in on the action even when you're stuck behind a desk. This incredible footage comes from professional kayaker Ben Marr who was on the Zambezi River directly underneath Victoria Falls.
In 1972, the father of four-time world champion mountain biker Rebecca Rusch died when his plane was shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. She was three years old at the time. More than 40 years later, Rusch decided to set out on the 1,200-mile Ho Chi Minh Trail in search of her father鈥檚 crash site.
Undersea explorer Scott Cassell is on a mission to bring the ocean鈥檚 mysteries to the surface.
One day when Amber was nine years old, her father was photographing Pipeline and sustained terminal head trauma.
From kayaker and filmmaker Mike Mckay, 'Jondachi' tells the story of young man and his connection to the Rio Jondachi in Ecuador.
At the cover shoot for the May issue of 国产吃瓜黑料, we asked 10 of the most influential women in the outdoor world a handful of questions about life, success, and happiness.
In this episode of Redington's Find Your Water series, the crew takes us to Billings, Montana, an industrial town with incredible access to the outdoors
In this predominantly Muslim country, women are shredding waves鈥攁nd the patriarchy
Last weekend, the North Face鈥檚 Chile brand put on Latin America鈥檚 biggest鈥攁nd loudest, and rad-est, and rowdiest鈥攂ouldering competition.
Obama was supposed to safeguard Oregon鈥檚 Owyhee Canyonlands with a National Monument designation, but when that didn鈥檛 happen, its supporters were left wondering. What鈥檚 next?
The Grand Canyon is a river trip above all other river trips. Normally done over the course of weeks or months, a few members of the U.S. Men's Rafting team decided to set a new speed record; 34 hours.
'C&R - Crime and Reality' is a film from Brothers On The Fly about Germany's current policy making catch and release fishing illegal.
After years of diving competitively, Francisco Del Rosario realized that it had distracted him from the foundations of the sport: clarity of mind, the inexplicable sensations, and to visit another world beneath the waves.
'Bruhwiler County,' a film from Yeti, shares how surfer Raph Bruhwiler has kept his community and family first in this remote stretch of Canada.
For big-wave surfer and North Shore native Mark Healey, life has always revolved around the water.
She was present when her fiance drowned during a kayaking trip last year, and even told authorities she wanted him dead. But there's no way a jury will convict. Here's why.
Shorebreak from director Peter King is a feature film that dives into Clark Little's life as an action wave photographer.
Pete Correale has given his life to spending countless days in the ocean. From this foundation, he began guiding spearfishing trips all over the globe.
Zen and the lost art of spearfishing with big-wave surfer and all-around badass Mark Healey
Moose Hofer has no regrets about passing up a traditional career path for a life on the river
Or so it seems. The 24-year-old from Hawaii is a multiple-time world champion of stand-up paddling, a dominant wind- and kitesurfer, and one of the most fearless big-wave riders on the planet. His combination of talents would seem impossible if he didn鈥檛 make it all look so easy.
LIVITFILMS teamed up with Will Taylor of Fly Shop Co. to tackle some new water in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
The director of the acclaimed documentary 'Sharkwater' disappeared mysteriously after a deep dive off the coast of Key Largo on Tuesday. For 72 hours, crews scoured the ocean. On Friday, shortly after the search for Stewart was suspended, divers found his body on the bottom of the ocean floor.
Iceland is home to some of the most photogenic terrain on earth. But for surfer Hei冒ar Logi El铆asson and the film crew at Tributaries Digital Cinema, it's a harsh place with unrelenting wind.
In the heart of the Frank Church Wilderness, four guides on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River explore the tributaries of this mighty river.
A few years back, a contingent of prominent pro surfers took up stand-up paddleboarding in spite of its reputation as a leisure activity of lesser wave riders. Can they convince the curmudgeons the sport deserves respect?
The 92-year-old gear innovator, guide, and teacher has fished with everyone from Ernest Hemingway to Tom Brokaw to Yvon Chouinard to Fidel Castro
From photographer Chris Burkard and Sweatpants Media, Under an Arctic Sky documents the search for waves under the Northern Lights.
Mountain Mind Collective released their full film, For The Love back in April. This segment entitled Liquid Lumination challenges the assumption that paddling is only a day-time sport.
When the Director of the Sierra Club, Stacy Bare, returned home from Iraq he thought he had two options; go back to the war or kill himself.
In a multimedia production from Junkie XL and Red Bull Media House, Wavey Waters presents an alternative look at music.
Cold-water swimmer Lewis Pugh has stroked across a glacial lake and around icebergs in the Antarctic. What鈥檚 his secret?
In this series from Dior, Tales of the Wild brings you into the lives of four men who are truly wild.
After many years of travel together, Jim Slinger and Andrew Tip Taylor revisit The Noatak River after a 35-year hiatus.
In a new film by NRS and We Are Hungry, a crew of French kayakers travels to the frigid waters of Iceland.
In 2007, Doug Walker found three dusty boxes at a flea market in Los Angeles. Inside were more than 30,000 negative film strips discarded by Surfing Magazine, all of them from the 1970s.
Larry Cavero's welcoming attitude and unmatched stoke made him the perfect candidate for Jake Kovnat's film 'On Days Like These, We Must Surf'.
To pull off his latest stunt, adventurer Rex Pemberton and his team ventured to Victoria, Australia to attempt something that鈥檚 never been done before: become the first person ever to skydive onto鈥攁nd then surf鈥攁 big wave.
To pull off the stunt safely and capture it all for the camera required a small army of people, from cameraman to ocean rescue specialists to helicopter pilots. Meet the crew of 16 who helped Rex train, pull off, and film the stunt.聽…
Landing a parachute on a wave and then surfing it is no easy task, and requires a predictable swell that can be timed from the air. Learn why Rex and his team thinks Jarosite Reef, off the coast of Victoria, Australia, is the perfect spot to do so.
Skydiving is risky. Big-wave surfing is risky. Combining the two? Any number of things can go wrong鈥攁nd did, like when Rex took a surfboard through the face during a training run, a mishap that required 40 stitches. See what they鈥檙e doing to keep Rex safe this time around.
Each fall, the world's greatest stone skimmers gather on a small Scottish island to try and outgun one another
First Descents is a non-profit organization that takes young adults with cancer into the outdoors.
In the film Movember, from Redington, Paul and Adam find that fishing in the snow is as serene as it gets.
Long before it was the cool thing to do, Jen Wolf knew both the benefits and challenges of #VanLife.
The Green River was the perfect place the folks at BOTE Boards to test out their new inflatable Stand Up Paddleboards.
On Friday, Oct 7 NLand Surf Park will open its doors to the general public. The waves range from beginner through experienced, catering to all kinds of surfers.
Growing up in Salt Lake, Dan Gavere often found himself in some whitewater on the weekends. He's learned a lot of lessons from the river and continues to teach them to the rising rippers.
The Red Bull Illume photo contest, now in its 10th year, highlights the best images and photographers in the outdoor adventure world. Fifty-three premier photo editors whittle down almost 35,000 images into 55 finalists. Those images are separated into 11 categories, with a winner in each, plus a grand prize winner. Tens of thousands of dollars in gear await the winners, in addition to bragging rights from one of the most prestigious photo contests on earth. Here a preview of some of the incredible work.
Rush Sturges is a jack of all trades; filmmaker, professional kayaker, and musician. With his kayaking films, he's taken viewers across the globe and back. But for the river he runs nearly every day, he had a special project in mind.
For true Waterman, mastering multiple water sports is just the beginning of a much more meaningful relationship with the ocean
On the other side of the glossy sport are skilled craftsmen who keep the boats afloat. We visited one crowded workshop in the village of Greenport, New York, to see where the magic happens.
Attaching a rope with handlebar to a powerful drone, they invented the new unofficial sport of #DroneSurfing.
This video is part of a series from Moxy International called Where the Wind Blows that profiles female kiteboarders.
When summer hits and waves flatten out, Evan Adamson, Tommy Witt, and some friends took to Lake Austin for a seemingly never ending wave.
As good as the fishing was, this trip was more about breaking away from life's breakneck pace and living in the moment, which is a lot easier to do in the mountains.
In the ongoing series Chronicles: Making of Proximity we get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of the production team.
A 20-year fight between energy and environmental interests over some of the country's last undammed rivers has finally come to a close
When the sunlight grows rarer, the fish follow suit, but those fleeting instances of interaction make fishing all the more special
In the ongoing series 'Chronicles: Making of Proximity' we get a behind the scenes glimpse into the lives of the production team.
Chapter One, a new film about the origins and legacy of kiteboarding, seeks to establish the sport as a powerhouse in the action and adventure sports world
Kelly Slater is leading the charge to roll out a totally surfable wave pool. Will tech-savvy inventors beat him to it?