UPDATE: Everest Fight Resolved
Cooler heads have prevailed on Everest, it would seem, in the wake of Saturday's high elevation argument that turned violent. To jog your memory, a fight broke...
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Honnold's New Hardest Route Goes Unnoticed
In June of last year, Alex Honnold became arguably the most famous rock climber in the world. In less than 19 hours, he climbed the "Triple Crown,"...
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Brawl On Everest!
UPDATE (4/30 @ 6:20pm): Click here for an update on this story. A fight broke out on Mt. Everest this weekend between the team of Western...
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Rocky Mountain High: Colorado's 11 Best Hikes
Few places stoke hikers' imaginations the way trail-rich, mile-high Colorado does. Sitting in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the rugged state offers a wide range of...
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Everest '13 Update: No Rest For The Weary (Except For Billiards)
Now that a bout of good weather has settled over Everest, most of the teams are taking advantage of it to get in an acclimatization rotation. For...
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Ranger's Secrets: Grand Teton National Park
After 37 years in Grand Teton National Park, Park Spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs continues to be moved by the unique splendor of the area. "This landscape never...
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6 Expert Tips For Beginner Sea Kayakers
Kayaking has been described as anywhere from serene to extreme. Whether calming or adventurous in nature, your experience becomes even bigger when paddling in ocean water. Cathy...
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Open Season On Yellowstone Grizzlies?
It's been 38 years since grizzly bears were placed on the Endangered Species list. In that time, they've made a fantastic recovery, rebounding from fewer than 200...
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12 Amazing Places To Swim With Sharks
Nothing sends ocean swimmers fleeing for shore faster than a fin sighting. The word "shark" alone is enough to scare most people, immediately calling to mind the menacing...
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Is Nudity In The National Parks OK? We Think So!
National Park Week is upon us, and although the weather is a bit grubby, free entry awaits at many of our nation's federally protected seashores, hot springs...
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How To Survive: A Bear Encounter
Bears are the apex predator of North America—they're massive and powerful and incredibly fast, given their size. Though they don't generally seek out conflict with humans, sometimes,...
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River In California 'Wild And Scenic' No More?
For the first time ever, Congress may remove the "Wild and Scenic" status from a stretch of river designated as such under the Wild and Scenic Rivers...
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Enviro Groups Are Strong, So Why Is The Movement Weak?
As I strolled down Broadway today, one of Manhattan's busiest avenues, two bright-eyed employees stood outside an outdoor sports shop, offering handfuls of colorful markers, waving customers...
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Mammoth Mountain Meltdown, Part 3
Editor's Note: This is the third part of a three-part story on the growing impact of global climate change on the ski industry, as viewed through the...
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Mammoth Mountain Meltdown, Part 2
Editor's Note: This is the second part of a three-part story on the growing impact of global climate change on the ski industry, as viewed through the...
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Mammoth Mountain Meltdown: End Game?
Editor's Note: This is the first part of a three-part story on the growing impact of global climate change on the ski industry, as viewed through the...
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UPDATE: Industry Vets Among Those Killed In Colorado Avalanche
UPDATE (Monday, 4/22 @ 9:56am): The Clear Creek Sheriff's Office has identified those killed as Christopher Peters, 32, of Lakewood; Joseph Timlin, 32, of Gypsum; Ryan Novack,...
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How To Fight Insects This Summer
Mosquitoes, blackflies, ticks, gnats and no-see-ums are, at the least, a nuisance and, at worst, disease-carrying pests. Here are some tried-and-true (along with a few untested) tips...
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"Eco-Terrorists" And Tree-Huggers Reunite!
One year ago, an aging contingent of Earth First!ers plus some of their young'uns converged on the banks of the Salmon River in central Idaho. Sixty or...
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11 National Parks Threatened By Climate Change
Imagine Joshua Tree National Park without the Joshua trees; Glacier National Park without the glaciers; or the Everglades without... the Everglades. [slideshow:664]Sound far fetched? It isn't.Climate change...
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Hiking With Kids: Teach Them To Love It
How do you teach your children to love hiking? The all-purpose rule applies: Start early and make it fun. So says outdoor enthusiast extraordinaire and author Jeff...
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Train Like Ueli Steck, Preparing For Everest
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/4gMIUb4fb04]Swiss climber Ueli Steck and Italian climber Simone Moro recently began their NO2 "No Limits" expedition with the goal of taking a new route to the summit...
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Boy Survives Fall Into Hawaiian Steam Vent
A California teen had a close call in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park last week when he fell 25 feet into a steam vent.According to a park statement,...
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Surfing Made Easy: Just Choose A School
Surfing isn't as easy as you might think—it can take years to perfect the art. The ocean is unpredictable, the waves are moving, the current can be...
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Surfer's Paradise: Oahu's North Shore
In the world of surfing, Oahu's fabled North Shore is one spot that separates the dudes from the duds, testing their mettle against thundering 30-plus-foot beasts during...
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Indonesian Paradise, Part 3
Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part story on the battle for the surf economy of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. As resort owners and charter boat...
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Indonesian Paradise, Part 2
Editor's Note: This is the second of a three-part story on the war for the surf resources of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. While tourism reforms are stalled in...
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Big Waves Bring Big Problems To Surfer's Paradise
Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part story on the battle for the surf economy of Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. As resort owners and charter boat...
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Pop Quiz: How Do You Exploit Earth Day?
True or False? Earth Day was created in 1970 to celebrate all the wonderful ways that our society benefits from mining coal, extracting natural gas and burning...
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11 Outrageous Ways To Get To Work
While most of us loathe our daily commutes to work and school—enduring white-knuckle, traffic-choked drives into downtown office buildings or waiting forever for some crowded mode of...
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Top Spring Skiing Spots Slideshow
Where: Mt. Hood, OregonAverage Snowfall: 577"2011 Closing Date: May 15 (April 28 projected this year)Spring Deals: Spring Pass$99 for unlimited skiing through season's endHood has been blasted...
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Outdoor Jobs
Yosemite offers an unparalleled job opportunity for skilled, personable climbers. As the sport continues to grow, so do the environmental impacts of climbers in the park, including...
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Everest: A Mountain Of Hype
In a measure of how popular the trip has become, it isn't even easy these days to keep track of how many people have stood on the...
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Everest Season About To Hit Its Peak
There is relative calm in both Everest Base Camps at the moment as the climbers rest and acclimatize in order to get ready for the work ahead....
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Surfing's 'Scam' And The State Of Longboarding
By now, I trust many of you will have seen the video of this year's Joel Tudor Duct Tape Invitational. If not, watch it. It showcases a...
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Surprising (Essential) Gear For A Wilderness Paddle
Plenty of us have considered a big backcountry paddle, putting in to some wild waterway for a soul-saving weeks-long canoe journey. But how do you know what...
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VIDEO: Moose Strolls Through Canadian Grocery Store
A sick moose surprised grocery shoppers in Smithers, B.C., this week when it wandered into a Safeway in search of food. Customers captured the event with their...
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Hanging On: A Climber's Staggering Recovery
In late March of 2012, a group of climber friends brought me to the famed crags of New York's Shawangunk Ridge, a.k.a. the "Gunks," to touch real...
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How To Catch A Giant Squid? It's Complicated ...But Worth It
Though humans have been aware of giant squids' existence for thousands of years—Pliny the Elder wrote of one in his Natural History (the creature was said to...
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Most Wince-Worthy Surfing Wipeouts Of The Year
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/ete3SRqSFEY?rel=0]A couple weeks ago we posted Billabong XXL's 2012-2013 big wave nominees for your gawking enjoyment.Today we give you something no less gawk-worthy, but definitely more painful...
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Adventure Travel Tip: Wear A Rash Guard When Rafting
"Whitewater rafting is a tricky sport to dress for—one minute you're getting pummeled by rapids in a breezy canyon, the next you're baking in the sun with...
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Don't Call Me Eco-Terrorist!
It was not really surprising but, well, disappointing to hear that I'd been called an "eco-terrorist" by one of my neighbors. The news was second-hand, of course,...
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Take A (Virtual) European Road Trip
Footloose Norwegian photographer Sebastian Dahl, 25, recently went on a devil-may-care, Kerouac-inspired 10,000-kilometer (6,213-mile) road trip from Oslo, Norway to Beirut, Lebanon. Carrying little more than the...
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Adventure Travel Tip: Clean Water The Right Way
"In any developing country, if you're not confident that your water source has been boiled or chemically treated, then you should purify your own drinking water. Water...
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The Hard Life: This Is What Survival Takes
To the sound of sawing wood, the camera zooms in on a snow-huddled frontier camp, a few lonely buildings set against a stark backdrop of bare mountains,...
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10 Colleges And Universities For (Extremely) Active Students
Spring decision time is here. College applications are in, admissions offices are sending offer letters, and high school seniors everywhere are deciding where they want to spend...
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An Expert Take On The Parks: Monica Prelle
Monica Prelle is a freelance writer and outdoors adventurer based in California's Eastern Sierra, a fact that strongly influenced her top picks. In fact, it looks like...
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A Stiff Upper Lip: Polar Explorer's Last Letter Revealed
British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition was his last. He and his team reached the bottom of the world on January 17, 1912, only...
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12 Spring Hikes: Flowers, Falls, And Baby Animals
Every season has its own particular appeal: autumn, the brilliantly colored foliage; winter, ice climbing and chances to make fresh tracks on the slopes; summer, long, long...
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Meeting Predators On Their Own Turf
The March day in western Colorado was crystalline clear. North-facing mountain slopes held up to a foot of snow; the south faces, however, were bare. I made...
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Great Adventure Hoaxes: Sailing Nowhere Fast
Donald Crowhurst set sail from England in fall 1968 aboard a plywood trimaran as a competitor in The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, the first-ever single-handed, nonstop,...
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