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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.