• What Alaska Taught Me About Skiing

    Fourteen years is thirteen too many to go between visits to Alaska. I sensed that every year that passed during my long Alaska pause, but I knew it when...

    By Majka Burhardt May 11th, 2012 Read More

  • Flesh Eating Bacteria In The Water

    For many, the scariest (or most exciting) part about zip lining is the heights—the dread of falling. But for Aimee Copeland, 24, the fall was just the...

    By Lisa Hoehn May 10th, 2012 Read More

  • You Can Help Save Sasquatch

    If there's one thing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proven in the nearly 40 years since passage of the Endangered Species Act, it's that it...

    By Peter Koch May 10th, 2012 Read More

  • Islands In The Sun

    Mushy romantic has never been my style, but I admit it: I felt rather goo-goo. There we were, our first night aboard Tui Tai, a 140-foot schooner packed...

    By Tim Neville May 10th, 2012 Read More

  • Hiking Italy's Wild Coast

    A soft thread of wind purls along the cliff, and for a moment we are relieved. It's a sweltering day on Sardinia, the island 120 miles west...

    By Tim Neville May 9th, 2012 Read More

  • Walk A Welsh Coastline

    Ever dreamed of hiking the entire coastline of a country? Well, if you hadn't before, now you will. On Saturday, May 5, the Wales Coast Path was...

    By Lisa Hoehn May 9th, 2012 Read More

  • Fuel For The Fire Inside

    Just like a car, your body needs fuel to keep it going. But not just any fuel will do, especially if you want to push your body...

    By Aviva Gat May 8th, 2012 Read More

  • Everest Is Falling To Pieces

    The sky is falling on Everest. Or, more accurately, rocks are falling because no snow will.In one of the driest seasons on record, rocks from the Lhotse...

    By Peter Koch May 7th, 2012 Read More

  • Polar Traverse, In Reverse

    The Arctic season is, by most measures, over. Every ski expedition from land—concluding with Norwegians Mads Agerup and Rune Midtgaard—has been aborted.  April 22 was the cut-off...

    By Peter Koch April 27th, 2012 Read More

  • Mountain Classics, Then And Now

    This spring, The Mountaineers Books will re-publish two of the great adventure stories of all time, The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah, by David Roberts, in...

    By David Roberts April 19th, 2012 Read More

  • Your First Time Kayaking Slideshow

    Aires by Kokatat; $100 This hybrid PFD offers the best of both worldsaccommodating paddlers with long and short torsos alike. Other high-back designs can tend to ride up...

    By Chris Lesser April 19th, 2012 Read More

  • Was Liam Neeson's Homing Watch Real?

    If you haven't seen The Grey, a survival thriller starring Liam Neeson set in Alaska, you can save the cost of admission by skipping to the spoiler...

    By Chris Lesser April 19th, 2012 Read More

  • How To Survive: Snakebite!

    The most important thing to keep in mind with all wild animal encounters, including snakes, is they're just as scared as you are. Give a snake space...

    By Peter Koch April 18th, 2012 Read More

  • How To Survive: Flash Floods

    The desert is really dry. Except, of course, when it's not. During canyon country's summer rainy season, storms sometimes blow up suddenly and drop buckets of rain...

    By Peter Koch April 18th, 2012 Read More

  • The Secrets Of Baja

    Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.—Bruce BeresfordThe Baja...

    By Mark Stephens April 18th, 2012 Read More

  • The Courage To Leave

    A little about the van. He got it for a steal, but I soon found out why... A little electrical work here, reupholstering some seats there... But,...

    By Mark Stephens April 17th, 2012 Read More

  • One Man, A Thousand Stories

    I first became aware of Freddie Wilkinson in 2009, when Ed Viesturs and I were writing K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain. The...

    By David Roberts April 17th, 2012 Read More

  • The One-Pot Gourmet

    You don't have to own a Top Chef-class RV to whip up a nice backcountry meal. With a little pre-planning, even backpackers can move beyond standard hobo...

    By Caitlin Giddings April 17th, 2012 Read More

  • Deep Sea: Should Cameron Have Gone?

    If you were to take a very large breath and plunge seven miles down to the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the world's oceans, you would...

    By Tetsuhiko Endo April 16th, 2012 Read More

  • Man Vs. Cable Network

    The Discovery Channel has fired British survival expert Bear Grylls, the gregarious host of the network's Man Vs. Wild show. "Sources say the network has been unable...

    By Chris Lesser April 16th, 2012 Read More
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