• Holiday Guide 2012: Best Mountain Books

    As the holiday season approaches, it's easy to spend hours wading through catalogs to find the latest and sweetest gear gifts. But if you don't have the...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison November 28th, 2012 Read More

  • Everest Trash Becomes Art In Nepal

    While it took more than two years for porters and yaks to haul eight tons of trash from Mount Everest, it took just a month for Nepalese...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison November 26th, 2012 Read More

  • Kayaker Attempts New Grand Canyon Speed Record

    [embedImage=https://www.theactivetimes.com/sites/default/files/u9331/grand-canyon-speed-run-640x393.jpg] The route for the speed record attempt (credit: Canoe & Kayak) While the average athlete may fit in a workout before chowing down on...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison November 21st, 2012 Read More

  • Digging Deep: Avalanche Shovels, Probes

    Beacons, with their electronic wizardry, get all the attention when people consider backcountry gear, but shovels and probes are the workers in the trenches—almost literally speaking—and are...

    By Jeff Burke November 21st, 2012 Read More

  • Climbing Legend Patrick Edlinger Dies At 52

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/JvsgHWKJOUA]Pioneering French climber Patrick Edlinger died at the age of 52 on Friday in his home in La Palud-sur-Verdon, France. The cause of his death is unknown.Edlinger,...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison November 20th, 2012 Read More

  • The People's Choice: Banff 2012, Part V

    All right, it's a film festival. And the manic week in Banff reaches its climax on Sunday evening, when the prizes in several categories of cinematic excellence...

    By David Roberts November 19th, 2012 Read More

  • Book Review: There Are Other Rivers

    I've long been a fan of British adventurer Alastair Humphreys. He's ridden his bike around the world, rowed the Atlantic and trekked across Iceland. Soon he'll even...

    By Kraig Becker November 16th, 2012 Read More

  • Video: Red Bull's "Athlete-Powered" Machine

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/M0jmSsQ5ptw?rel=0]Red Bull calls this athlete-powered Rube Goldberg contraption "Kluge." Kluge, if you're wondering is a slang word based on the same root as the German word klug,...

    By Peter Koch November 16th, 2012 Read More

  • The Best Mountain Book Ever Written

    Well, they asked for it, proposing a panel with such an ex cathedra title as "The Best Mountain Book Ever Written." So it wasn't surprising when Katie...

    By David Roberts November 15th, 2012 Read More

  • Watch: A Skier's Journey, Dubai

    "In the unlikeliest of places, there is a community of committed skiers."In the second episode of filmmaker Jordan Manley's A Skier's Journey, the unlikeliest of places is...

    By Lisa Hoehn November 14th, 2012 Read More

  • John Denver Is Back (On Commemorative Skis)

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/aB2E1D5hrdI] If you can't already tell from this old school video, John Denver really loved to ski. The 70s musician, who became famous for songs...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison November 14th, 2012 Read More

  • Top All-Mountain Skis 2013

    "One-ski quiver" is perhaps the most clichéd phrase in modern ski journalism (or maybe it's "stoke;" either way, I'm guilty of both). Every time I read it,...

    By Peter Koch November 14th, 2012 Read More

  • Adventure Travel Tip: The Sugar Slip Up

    "When traveling through developing nations, resist the urge to hand out candy to the children that you meet—they don't likely receive proper dental care. Instead, bring a...

    By The Active Times Staff November 13th, 2012 Read More

  • The Final Push

    Right now, even as the fall Himalayan climbing season has mostly wrapped, American climber Chad Kellogg is still out there, possibly gazing up at Nepal's highest virgin...

    By Peter Koch November 9th, 2012 Read More

  • Video: Surfing The Streets Of NYC

    [embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/P_iWudm0y7o]Ever wanted to surf through New York City? These guys did (and no, not during the time that Hurricane Sandy flooded lower Manhattan). The urban surfers instead...

    By Lisa Hoehn November 6th, 2012 Read More

  • Autumn Climbing Review: Red River Gorge

    The Red River Gorge in east-central Kentucky is a mecca for climbers. Full of waterfalls, rock shelters and sandstone cliffs and arches, the gorgeous landscape is matched...

    By Megan Taylor Morrison November 6th, 2012 Read More
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