Adventure
Truly*Adventurous, November 2022
A harrowing escape from a war-torn country places a group of refugees in an impossible situation: out of water, out of time, and with hundreds of miles to go.
Life Therapy
Truly*Adventurous, November 2019
An elite soldier lies on the brink of death after a raid in Iraq, the world’s best doctors ready to pull the plug. But they don’t know Andy Chavez.
Kevan chandler travels by pack
sierra magazine
Chandler finds a way to ditch his wheelchair and bend the rules of accessibility.
reciting poetry on the trail
backpacker, november 2016
You don’t need to be an English major to make poetry part of your next hike.
my son, the mountaineer
a new era for surfing, no ocean required
VICE Sports
Manmade waves have long left elite surfers cold. Companies like American Wave Machines and Kelly Slater Wave Company are trying to change that.
backpacker
Young climber Tyler Armstrong rewrites the relationship with his dad.
these amateur cyclists ride 10,000 miles a year
Bicycling
While living normal lives. You can, too.
adaptive sports program takes skiers to new heights
Gore-Tex experience More
Adaptive sports programs empower athletes of all abilities to get out and explore without limitation.
they call it everesting
Outside
Think climbing Everest is hard? Try climbing 29,029 vertical feet in one brutal ride.
““I’d convinced myself that the sun was never gonna come up again. Every leaf in the road was a rock I’d have to dodge. All the twigs looked like snakes wriggling around. It was trippy, man.””
drone selfies for snowboarders
vice sports
Snowboarder Xavier de le Rue thinks his new “self-flying” camera will transform aerial filmmaking.
sasha digiulian's bid to join the eiger's most exclusive (all-male) club
vice sports
DiGiulian earned her stripes in the climbing gym. Now she’s attempting one of the hardest routes in the Alps. If she's successful, she'll be the first woman to bag the ascent. Not everyone is convinced she belongs there.
racing the last degree to the north pole
vice sports
The Mamont Cup, an expedition-style race to the North Pole, is an effort to promote polar research and raise climate change awareness.
the secret lives of mushroom hunters
outside
Langdon Cook's new book seeks to demystify the strange—and sometime dangerous—world of mushroom hunting.
the greatest survival journey
outside
A conversation with Tim Jarvis as he prepares to set out with a crew of five men to repeat Ernest Shackleton's 800-mile open-boat crossing of the South Atlantic.
soaked, but not lost in the sea of trees
gore-tex experience more
It was a name we could neither fathom nor resist. Others, mostly outside of Japan, know it by its more macabre epithet: Suicide Forest.
a reawakening in new mexico's wilderness
gore-tex experience more
A solo wilderness journey is an important rite of passage meant to help discover inner-strength, self-identity and belonging. I needed a dose before the cold hit.
grizzly encounters in denali backcountry
gore-tex experience more
In the trackless wilds of Denali, our safety was relative and in no hands but our own.
recreating shackleton's survival epic
outside, january 2013
A team of adventurers plays a risky game of dress-up.
Kayaker dies on the little white salmon
outside
Washington's Little White Salmon is the most difficult regularly run river on the West Coast, yet it has only claimed two kayakers. The second, Jenna Watson, died on June 16. Here's the story.