A Reminder to Check the Expiration Date on Your Extreme Aerial Stunt Waiver
On Monday, January 21, ThoseCrazyTexans uploaded a 19-second clip of aerial stunt pilot Jason Newburg flying a plane at roughly 200 miles per hour just a few feet above the ground and a few feet to...
View ArticleA Video Profile 11-Year-Old Climbing Sensation Brooke Raboutou
The profile on Team ABC Boulder of 11-year-old climbing sensation Brooke Raboutou—which was last updated in December 2011—lists more than a few hard-to-grasp facts about the phenom. Raboutou first...
View ArticlePeter Mel's View of Mavericks
This past Sunday, Peter Mel won the Mavericks Invitational. The video embedded above offers a view of the big-wave contest as captured by his GoPro.
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A Graphic Mapping of the Damage Caused by Sandy
Photo: Spatial Information Design Lab The Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University has built an informative and easy-to-use online graphic that shows the destruction caused by Hurricane...
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An Ode to the Fat Bike
Earlier this week on a side street in Santa Fe, I passed a guy bike commuting the opposite direction from me. He was riding a fat bike. Like any good cyclist, I'll often crane my neck to see what a...
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Ragnar Puts the Team in Trail Running
No more lonely trails. Photo: Courtesy of Ragnar On January 22, the increasingly popular relay running series, Ragnar, announced that it is partnering with Salomon to launch the world’s first overnight...
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Can Idle No More Save the Great Bear Rainforest?
Pipeline protest. Photo: Dogwood Initiative Amid an increasingly conservative Canadian government focused on exploiting the land's resources, the country's indigenous people have risen up through a...
View ArticleOutside Television Adds New Shows, Expands Original Programming
Outside Television, America’s only network for active outside enthusiasts, today detailed two new exclusive original series, The Final Cut: Outside’s Adventure Film School and EpicQuest, to bolster...
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Everest 2013: The Beginning
APRIL 25I just got back to Everest Base Camp after spending 5 nights up on the mountain. On April 20, we climbed up through the Khumbu Icefall to Camp I. We departed our base camp at 4 a.m. and...
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Drones and Choppers at Base Camp?
APRIL 26This morning I awoke at 7:20 a.m. to the rotors of the latest model Eurocopter B3 hovering above my tent as it prepared to land 50 yards away to resupply a neighboring camp. I thought to...
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Moving Up to Camp 4
Today Sherpas from several teams are working on fixing the route from Camp 4 (the South Col) to the Balcony. Tomorrow they hope to complete the route from the Balcony to the Summit. Winds look...
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Sherpas Top Out On Everest
Today the Sherpa fixing team reached the summit of Everest! Fourteen Sherpas from 8 different teams worked together installing new anchors and fixed lines. Two Sherpas from Alpine Ascents, Kami Rita...
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Acclimatizing at Camp 3
Tomorrow we are moving up on our summit 'rotation' to attempt the summit of Everest & Lhotse (around May 18-20). The weather is looking good, the routes up both summits are now in good shape &...
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Introducing the Outside Podcast
We’re excited to introduce the Outside Podcast, beginning with our first series, the "Science of Survival.” Each episode, either prompted by a story in our archives or simply inspired by a theme we’ve...
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Ep01: Frozen Alive
The first episode in the Outside Podcast "Science of Survival" series is a dramatic audio re-creation of the classic Peter Stark feature on hypothermia. It puts the listener through the harrowing...
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Ep02: Struck by Lightning
Most of the time, when lightning makes the news, you’re hearing about it because something really unlikely has happened. Like the park ranger who was struck by lightning seven times. Or the lightning...
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Ep03: The Devil’s Highway, Part 1
Thirst is an unpredictable threat. In its early stages, it is much like mild hunger. For centuries, hydration was as much superstition as science. Then, in the summer of 1905, in the heart of the...
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Ep04: The Devil's Highway, Part II
For centuries, the Devil’s Highway, a path through the desert in southern Arizona where water sources can be separated by 100 miles, was one of the harshest places in North America, killing many...
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