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It's too long, too male, too boring, and in desperate need of a rethink

From 'Jaws' to the creatively bad shark films of 2013, we revisited them all for you

Working as a reporter in Central America, I've gotten used to men asking if I'm married and offering unsolicited advice about how to live my life. While it's usually framed in some well-intentioned way, the subtext has been obvious: If you're a woman, you shouldn't be traveling alone.

Saying you care about diversity isn't enough. Seven outdoor professionals sound off on what real change means.

Take your pick from several mystery books set in the wild, best read by headlamp

Peter Hessler, Joyce Carol Oates, Malcolm Gladwell, and others weigh in about finding inspiration on the trails

This is the best of what we wrote and read

Prepare your Instagram account—your stream is about to be filled with insane photos of glorious campfire food from Linda Ly, the Chaco Camptessa

Before he became known as the boyfriend on Felicity, Scott Speedman was nearly an Olympic swimmer. Now the star of TNT's Animal Kingdom just wants to have fun in the mountains.

The outdoor brand unveils the newest iteration of its car-camping products. We came away convinced it's all most of us will ever need.

The iconic film festival has quite the spread this year, from a Nepalese man who gathers poisonous honey on high cliffs to a couple of pro climbers tandem-riding a scooter in an ode to 'Dumb and Dumber'

Irene Yee, better known as @ladylockoff on Instagram, explains how she shoots climbers of all types with an eye for authenticity

Ever since the 1950s, our books, movies, and songs have contained fewer and fewer references to flowers, birds, trees, and the outdoors. What does it all mean?

In its quest to make the audience care about leading man Percy Fawcett, the blockbuster gives us a duller, sanitized version of the real-life explorer

A new book by two philosophy scholars imagines conversations with skeptics and deniers. Here are four lessons we learned from it.

Some of the greatest videography from the tenth-annual Carbondale event

The works that kept Alexi Pappas running, spurred Bill McKibben to fight for nature, and made Laird Hamilton… Laird Hamilton.

A legendary war photographer now leaves his Leicas at home

A Q&A with Hannah McCaughey, our creative director

Devyn Bisson, a 24-year-old internationally acclaimed filmmaker, traveled to Greece in 2015 to document the volunteers who save refugees' lives during the dangerous sea crossings. Her movie premieres this summer.

Turns out runners and bikers both love Ed Sheeran, while CrossFitters can't decide whether they want to turn it up or get angry

How two digital editors are using the online encyclopedia to advocate for women in our world

Whether you're hitting the beach, boarding a long flight, or flipping on a headlamp in your tent, you'll want these must-reads at your side

New shows we're excited about, plus our editors' picks for road trips and long runs

It's about time we had emojicons for climbers! For the past year, I’ve been working on creating one.

Our favorite hidden-gem outdoor blogs and websites

Colorado will soon be home to a 35,000-strong book collection that's all about the culture and conservation of natural places

The Pulitzer Prize finalist spent two years visiting 12 sites around the world for an ambitious new book that reveals the surprising—and surprisingly fascinating—arboreal secrets hidden in the canopies of ordinary trees. Paul Kvinta meets with the real-life Lorax on New York's Upper West side and learns why white men never stand in the shade.

After years of damage and abuse, the skier's bones have a few things to say

You don't have to summit mountains bare-chested or meditate on a snowbank to train your body to reap the benefits of one of the world's most extreme approaches to health

Teton County is known for its endless adventure—and for its tax-haven status and lack of affordable housing. We asked four residents earning between $30,000 and $200,000 how they make it work.

Peter Heller returns with a straightforward but expertly observed detective mystery, set in America's first national park

Jim Shepard’s latest collection takes a hard look at characters confronting extraordinary—and often cataclysmic—environmental situations

The vertical ceased print publication this winter, after 70 years of great stories

The fiberglass menagerie before you is made up of 34 animatronic beasts, created for Spy in the Wild, a Nature miniseries on PBS in which cameras disguised as animals embed with the real beasts for an immersive take on the nature documentary.

Nature documentaries offer the chance to teach your kids about the beauty and diversity of our planet

'World, Chase Me Down' is a nonstop crime adventure novel. Even better, most of it actually happened.

The new photography book 'Racing Age' reminds us that it's a whole lot of fun to be a competitive athlete for life

Apart from the Olympics, no one’s really watching the best athletes on the planet compete and perform live. Probably because their events are not very entertaining.

Noted adventure writer Colin Thubron's latest novel tells the story of residents trapped in a burning building—but it also distills what he's learned over a lifetime of nomadism

'Chasing Coral,' a new film premiering at Sundance, chronicles the desperate adventure of documenting the most imperiled ecosystems on earth

When Douglas Preston joined an expedition searching for the ancient Ciudad Blanca, he realized there may have been some truth to the warning not to enter the place

In an always-connected society, the urge to unplug has never been stronger. A new book takes a fresh look at just how difficult that can be.

Revisit our best videos of the year—picked by you

Revisit our best of the year—picked by you

Professional athletes have more direct influence than ever before thanks to massive social media followings. Now’s the time to start using it.

British citizen Rory Stewart spent the first 36 years of his life exploring everywhere but Britain. In his new book, he finally returns to the country of his nationality and tries to understand it.

In Confluence Films' new release, 'Providence,' Camille Egdorf returns to an Edenic tropical fishery that reopened to boat traffic after a tragic act of piracy

Say you see an article about how chocolate can prevent aging. You want to figure out what's actually going on, so you pull up the original study. Here's how you properly read it.

A new documentary argues that the Central Asia Institute’s founder was treated unfairly by "60 Minutes" and Jon Krakauer when they took him down in 2011. The newsmagazine and the author remain unfazed, and both stand by their original reporting.

How accurate is the new show about an outdoor magazine’s website? We asked staffers at our outdoor magazine’s website.

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On his recent trip to the top of the world, polar explorer Eric Larsen didn’t so much hike as fight, slog, and swim. He’s now convinced that his will be one of the last on-foot expeditions to the North Pole.

You say that you love the earth, but do you love it as much as Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle? We talked to the creators of the Ecosex Manifesto about what it means to be ecosexual.

Tom Harrison makes painstaking, recreationist-friendly maps the old-school way. But it's not a lost art—in the enduring popularity of his products is a lesson on what makes the paper map special.

What do you get when you combine VR, Camp 4 Collective, and some of the best extreme athletes in the game? A series of immersive videos that could get more people into both VR and adventure sports.

Long underappreciated, the female side of the sport has come of age with a film that isn’t entirely about riding (but there’s a lot of that, too)

We’ve all known that photo fakery has existed pretty much since photography was invented, but for many years you could more or less trust your eyes with video. Not anymore.

Our preview of the four most anticipated powder flicks dropping this fall

We often don't hear about the people of color who have shaped America's natural spaces—and we still have a long way to go when it comes to representation in environmental and adventure media. Carolyn Finney, a professor of geography whose work often focuses on diverse communities in the outdoors, explains how we can do better.

Change is coming—in equipment, in the way we watch it, and even in the way we define what it is

Lili Wright's debut novel is a fast-paced, immersive exploration of place and cultural veneration of the sacred object

Even in urban settings, there's potentially super-nutritious, super-cheap food growing right out of the cracks in the sidewalk. In an excerpt from his book, 'Unseen City,' Nathanael Johnson asks if it's possible to utilize it safely—and deliciously

Proulx’s chronicle of two families who inhabit and ravage North American forests might be her best book yet

Three standout series capture the national parks

Webcams have changed the way we interact with the wild

It’s not all fun and games in the parks

Young, tech-savvy adventurers are taking sponsors and funding away from grizzled, old-school explorers who aren’t strong on Facebook and Twitter. But they don’t always pull off the awesome feats they say they will.

A new documentary tells the other side of the growing labor dispute at the top of the world

Canadian artist John Fairfull is one of the few Westerners to brave an agonizing manhood ceremony in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. What was it like?

The city may be the only one in America that can be confident in its Olympic hosting qualifications, and designers made an emblem that shows it

In his latest book, Pulitzer Prize–winning scientist Edward O. Wilson argues for a bold step in conservation

Stock your physical and digital library with these must-read and must-see works that capture the fun, danger, and beauty of the cold.

A rollicking new book examines the extraordinary, nearly forgotten life of the american scout and adventurer

Revisit our best of the year—picked by you

A moment of perspective on our weird sport: Let's talk about people talking about running

A dream run in Iceland goes sideways into the courts

Oxygen seeks to show the beauty of female athleticism—and that women can be kick-ass athletes for life

These 2 people get paid to travel the world and test Columbia’s newest gear