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The Shorts--Blind Date with the Desert
"My first few days in Moab's red rock desert were like a blind date where everything went wrong," writes Hilary Oliver. "For one, it was August. My m…
11 years, 4 months ago
The Threshold Moment
When Kevin Fedarko stepped through the door of the O.A.R.S. boathouse in Flagstaff, AZ, he didn't realize he had crossed a figurative threshold as we…
11 years, 5 months ago
The Shorts--The Swallow and the Anchor
"My future captain interviewed me with three questions," remembers Joe Aultman-Moore. "Had I ever sailed before? No. Did I get seasick? I don't know.…
11 years, 5 months ago
El Avalanchisto
When Matt McKee first heard about the position forecasting avalanches for Minera Pimenton, a gold mine in the Chilean Andes, it sounded like the snow…
11 years, 6 months ago
The Shorts--365 Days
"In the day to day tangle of life, it's easy to let go of the things that provide focus, and calm and perspective," writes Fitz Cahall. "I find that …
11 years, 6 months ago
Adventure 1000
It's January. Time for our annual "Year of Big Ideas." This year, we talked to Alastair Humphreys, a 2012 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.…
11 years, 7 months ago
Flying Deep
There comes a stage in a great athlete's career when the pursuit of the technical difficulty take a backseat. It gives way to simplicity, an aestheti…
11 years, 7 months ago
The Journey Within
"I'm thirty-year-old, and a complete and utter failure," writes Chris Kalman. "My mom is a PhD astrophysicist, my dad, a PhD mathematician, and my si…
11 years, 8 months ago
More Than Just a Camping Trip
"Death-by-lightning-strike statistics kept swirling through my head, causing me to push my 13-year-old daughter to the very limits of her physical ab…
11 years, 8 months ago
What You're Handed
Regardless of how you choose to play outside, if someone gets hurt in the mountains, the first step on the checklist remains the same: "scene safety"…
11 years, 9 months ago