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The Polish mountaineer made history on July 22 when he descended the world's most dangerous mountain on skis
Pulling back the curtain on the industry’s biggest product launches
The first-of-its-kind approach shoe returns in spring 2019
The 33-year-old is next in line to be CEO of the company her great grandfather founded in 1928
After falling off a 100-foot cliff and surviving for 36 hours high on the mountain, Scottish climber Rick Allen was found alive.
The California Stonemaster and Five Ten founder changed the way we all climb
Save your climbing hands with these four salves
Most of mountaineering's teachers are white, but one group wants to change that through new hands-on workshops
Frustrated by overly cautious restrictions at cliffs, some climbers are leading efforts to create flexible, evidence-based management
The Nose Speed Ascent follows climbers Mayan Smith-Gobat and Libby Sauter as they set the women’s speed record on El Cap.
The 20-year-old faced three wildlife attacks within 36 months
Now that the mines have closed, the small towns of Emery County, Utah, are dreaming up an ambitious plan: A veritable outdoor playground with a new monument and more than half a million acres of designated wilderness. Can this scheme convince other towns to transition from extraction to recreation?
Building buff digits might take less time than you think, according to the Spanish scientist
Five testers brought 20 pairs of underwear around the world. Here are their favorites.
Digital tools to help you get into (and out of) the backcountry
The first of its kind, the Revo is a belay device with a true auto-locking mechanism.
The new app may be the most ambitious adventure tech to hit the market since sat phones
Tried-and-true adventures big and small, from sea to shining sea
The third annual International World Extreme Sports Medicine Congress confirmed our collective willingness to wreck ourselves in pursuit of stoke
The founder of the Women's Climbing Festival talks about the influence female athletes are having on a sport long dominated by men
He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. At the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back, and a frantic nine-day search left more questions than answers.
Moab-based climber Mason Earle yearns to find remote, pristine climbing routes.
The raccoon became stranded on a building in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this week and is now climbing the UBS Tower
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Last week, Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold set the speed record on the Nose. But even they're not sure it was a great idea.
Summiting the world's tallest peak puts humans through some of the most extreme conditions on the planet
Over the past week, the duo has made repeated attempts to climb the Nose route on Yosemite's El Capitan in under two hours. They finally succeeded.
Days after Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell broke the speed record on the Nose, two experienced climbers died on El Cap. Has speed climbing gotten too deadly?
Or not climbing one, whatever you want to do
The new Climbing Grief Fund will offer long-overdue tools for dealing with the pain of death in a community that is uniquely affected by it
The climbers sent the historic route in 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 15 seconds
Even if you’re not planning on climbing Denali, you can still learn some backcountry best practices from these mountaineering incidents
Because spending time together is more important than buying new gear
Lam Babu Sherpa disappeared on the descent after he was left behind by teammates
The pro climber and free soloist extraordinaire went to D.C. to tell politicians we want to preserve the wild places we grew up with—and not turn them into radioactive tailings ponds
Just because you didn’t land a private permit to float the Colorado doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy its 40 layers of mind-jarring beauty.
It was part of a marketing ploy for a new cryptocurrency
This detachable anchor system makes a bold yet unnerving promise to deliver full-length, single-rope rappels. Is it the holy grail for rappelling or an accident waiting to happen?
The athlete-activist is on a mission to get more people of color into the sport he loves
From music and film to mountain biking and yoga, here are our favorite jamborees celebrating the outdoors this season
It's called accidentology. Yes, that's a real word.
She’s a single mom who works as a dishwasher at a Whole Foods in Connecticut. And she just reached the top of the world for the ninth time.
Dozens of climbers were forced to turn back just shy of the summit after their oxygen regulators failed suddenly
If you can't afford the $50 per month membership fee, this gym will let you in anyway
The Sherpa climber now holds the top-of-the-world record
Pro climber Joe Kinder lost his job for harassing fellow pro Sasha DiGiulian on Instagram. Where do we go from here?
Ulyana Nadia Horodskyj is an ice scientist who's done research high on Everest—and after working with NASA, she's aiming even higher.
The Sherpa community rallied around Matt Moniz and Willie Benegas after their illegal ski descent of Lhotse
Matt Wells and Denny Hogan have been adventuring together for decades. As they push 70, they're not ready to give it up yet.
Six women talk about their experiences with harassment while recreating or working in the outdoor industry
Last week, the legendary speed climber broke bones in both legs when he fell and hit a ledge after a piece of protection popped 2,200 feet up the rock face
Summer is here in the desert so we rounded up our female editors' top picks for sunglasses
Jan Redford's 'End of the Rope' doesn't shy away from the author's climbing, relationship, and career pains—which makes it a refreshing new contribution to the canon
As South African Sibusiso Vilane awaits a window to summit Mount Everest for the third time—this attempt without oxygen—he wants the world to know something: We need more black mountaineers
Boyan Petrov was last seen near Camp 3 on Shishapangma nearly a week ago
From a climber pitching in after Hurricane Maria to athletes advocating for public lands
A powerful storm swept the mountains over the weekend and killed more than a dozen people
Sean Dougherty made a name for himself as a talented climber in the Canadian Rockies. Now he's starting a new adventure in one of the most extreme environments on earth.
When you take former sex-trafficking victims into the wilderness for a few days of roughing it, know this: they’ve seen worse. Florence Williams goes on a trip organized by Atlanta-based She Is Able and learns that one size of adventure therapy does not fit all.
Forget brightly colored plastic holds. In the future, we'll climb realistic 3D-printed rocks.
The International Rescue Committee hopes that by teaching kids how to conquer the crag, they'll also be better off facing challenges in their daily lives
Ngima Sherpa and Dendi Sherpa were hit by flying ice when a serac collapsed as they navigated the infamous route up Mount Everest. Theirs are the first major injuries of the season.
In today’s era, claiming an adventure record requires more than skill. You need a laundry list of caveats and qualifiers.
Lightweight and easy to pull on, whether you're in the gym or at the crag
Evan Phillips climbed mountains until an injury took him out of the game. Now he pours his energy into making music and 'The Firn Line,' a podcast about the lives of climbers, artists, and adventurers.
The world's highest peak will again be the focus of the climbing world
We’re a competitive bunch. Here’s how we stay fit enough to keep up.
What elite athletes wish they had known when they first started climbing
When two climbers were stranded near the summit of Nanga Parbat last winter, they sent out a desperate call on their satellite device. A hundred miles away, a Polish team of extraordinary climbers answered the call, prompting one of the most daring rescues in mountaineering history.