CATEGORIES
The Shape-Shifter
REALITY-TV STARS NEVER SUSTAIN LONG CAREERS. JUST DON’T TELL THAT TO BEAR GRYLLS.
No Safety In Numbers
MOUNT EVEREST IS INCREASINGLY DEFINED BY BUDGET GUIDING COMPANIES—AND MORE CROWDING THAN EVER
Patch Job
NOSO’S KELLI JONES IS BUILDING AN OUTDOOR BUSINESS WHILE REDUCING WASTE, ONE SCRAP OF NYLON AT A TIME
The Sleep of Your Dreams
A MORE RESTFUL NIGHT IS JUST A WIRELESS SNORE-NEUTRALIZING SOUNDSCAPE GENERATOR AWAY
Ryan Lochte Will Not Be Defeated
The Late - Night Punch Line Is Getting Older, And Some Say Slower, But He Has A Habit Of Piling Up Medals Anyway
Cruise Control
As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Business for Alaskan Passenger Ships Is Booming. Can the Fragile Region Handle the Traffic?
Body Work
Mission: Barely Possible Sometimes Setting an Unreasonable Goal Is the Only Way to Jump-start Your Fitness
The Glass Podium
Former Pro Cyclist Kathryn Bertine Launched a Nonprofit to Give Female Riders a Will It Make a Difference?
Laird Hamilton
For Outside's 40th Anniversary.We're featuring II people who changed our world. This month, the consummate waterman.
They Like To Watch
Why Do Millions of People Stream Soft-core Adventure B-roll on Youtube?
American Hustle
From Breeding Horses for a Drug Kingpin to Growing Nebraska Soybeans, Two New Nonfiction Books Look at Vastly Different Ways of Making Ends Meet
It Just Consumed Me
”Normally, not photograph by MICHAEL MULLER something you want a shark scientist to say. But Eric Stroud is talking about his chemistry-lab quest for the ultimate shark repellent, which he appears to have found. The questions that remain: Does it work on the great white, the ocean’s most fearsome predator? And can a couple of rookie entrepreneurs get it to market?
Tastes Like Rocket Fuel
BUT DOES IT ACT LIKE IT? WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A LONG-RUMORED KETONE SUPERDRINK, ENDURANCE ATHLETES WANT TO KNOW
Make Yourself Useful
Former pro surfer Jon Rose was riding waves in Sumatra when the 2009 earthquake hit, and he spent the next decade providing clean water in remote disaster zones. Last fall his Waves for Water crew was in Saint Croix when Hurricane Maria struck, so the team did what came naturally: got to work.
24 Hour Fitness
Every Day, We’re Confronted With a Thousand Choices That Can Make or Break Our Health: Cream and Sugar? Carpool? Walking Meeting? Check Instagram? Hiit or Long and Slow? One More Beer? But Decision Fatigue Can Also Increase Stress and Zap Motivation. So We Enlisted Olympic Decathlon Champion Ashton Eaton (and a Few of the Best and Brightest Researchers in the Country) to Design the Perfect Day.
Summer Sherlocks
The Season’s Best Headlamp Reads? Take Your Pick From Several Mystery Series Set in the Wild.
Uphill. Downhill. I Like That.
Clever, goofy, charismatic, and fast, two-time world champion Peter Sagan may never win the Tour de France (he's not a climber) but he just might be the star who saves bike racing. BILL GIFFORD hung out with the Slovakian powerhouse in his spiritual home of Southern California and met a kid-on-wheels whose sense of fun has given the sport a much needed boost.