A Quest to Expose the World’s Most Dangerous Frontier
Investigative journalist Ian Urbina had a bold plan: he would journey to the unpatrolled waters of the open ocean and bring back stories about the last regions on the planet where laws have almost no...
View ArticleJimmy Chin's Plan to Make the Outdoors More Inclusive
Back in the 1990s, Jimmy Chin was living the dirtbag dream. His home was an old Subaru Loyale, and he spent his days scaling Yosemite’s sheer rock faces and skiing the couloirs outside Jackson Hole,...
View Article48 Reasons to Feel Optimistic Today
Yeah, we get it. We feel the languishing effects of the past year, too. So we decided to go in search of some good news in the world outside, and it didn’t take long to uncover all kinds of it. While...
View ArticleNo, Kids Don’t Need Instagram
This spring, Facebook revealed that it’s developing a version of Instagram for children under 13 years old—a sort of Instagram lite that gives kids the chance to connect with friends and family without...
View ArticleA COVID Outbreak Is Plaguing Climbers on Everest
The COVID outbreak at Everest Base Camp continues to cause chaos on the world’s highest peak. At least two expeditions have packed up their tents and abandoned their climbs, and yesterday China...
View ArticleWhy Is Nike Still Backing Alberto Salazar?
In early March, the Court of Arbitration for Sport heard an appeal from Alberto Salazar, the former coach of the Nike Oregon Project, who in 2019 received a four-year suspension from United States...
View ArticleThe Wild Trips That Transformed a Scientist
Biologist M. Sanjayan has traveled to remarkable places around the world, crossing a vast desert in Namibia, tracking man-eating tigers in Bangladesh, and studying a despised rodent in California....
View ArticleSebastian Junger on Walking America’s Railroads
The change was immediate. The country opened up west of Harrisburg and suddenly we could drink from streams and build fires without getting caught and sleep pretty much anywhere we wanted. We’d walked...
View Article‘Beat Monday’ Rethinks What You Can Fit into a Weekend
At the start of his freshman year at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York, Mike Chambers was hanging out with his roommate when their dorm-room door flew open without warning and the...
View ArticleFat-Shaming People Won’t Improve Their Health
Often, messages that pose as health promoting are actually the opposite. There are obvious examples, like the doctor pushing an all-meat diet, or the celebrity wellness influencer telling the world...
View Article4 of Our Favorite Documentaries from Mountainfilm
Mountainfilm has gained a reputation over 42 years for airing some of the best documentaries about the outdoors, and significantly increasing the number of puffy jackets per square mile in Telluride,...
View ArticleMeet the TikTokers Upending Outdoor Influencer Culture
For years, Parker McMullen Bushman wasn’t comfortable referring to herself as an outdoorsy person. It sounds silly, she says, having spent years working as an educator and environmental justice...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need to Watch Hiking Videos to Hike
I had walked several hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail in 2019 the first time someone asked me just how many Dixie videos I’d seen. A native Southerner, I was confused by the question and the...
View ArticleHow to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change
When my daughter was a few weeks old, a wildfire broke out near our home in southwest Colorado. The previous winter had been one of the driest on record, and the fire quickly burned out of control....
View ArticleThe Wild Songs in Thomas Rhett's Heart
All too often, life gets in the way of the things we really care about. So it was for Thomas Rhett, one of the biggest names in country music, whose rise to superstardom meant that he no longer had...
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