Why Learning a New Skill Is So Good for You
As it turns out, being a grown-up novice offers all kinds of surprising benefits. Just ask journalist Tom Vanderbilt, who spent a year attempting to pick up a variety of challenging skills, from surfi...
13 Jan 202141min
Inside Emily Harrington's Triumph on El Capitan
Serious athletes are used to digging deep. But there’s pushing yourself, and then there’s what climber Emily Harrington did on November 4, when she became the first woman, and the fourth person ever, ...
23 Dec 202031min
Life Lessons from Elite Explorers
Ask a professional adventurer to share the most important lesson they’ve learned from their time in the wild, and you’re bound to get a good story. Which is exactly why we posed this question to Steve...
17 Dec 202031min
Tim Cook on Health and Fitness
With the latest version of its Watch and the imminent launch of its online training platform Fitness+, Apple is positioning itself as a leader in the health and wellness space. For CEO Tim Cook, this ...
9 Dec 20201h 6min
Two Wild Trips with Surprisingly Happy Endings
When we embark on a big adventure outdoors, the truth is that we rarely know what we’re getting into. Usually, the reasons we give for taking a trip are rarely what make it so memorable. You might go ...
2 Dec 202037min
How BASE Jumping Saved Jeb Corliss's Life
Jeb Corliss is one of the original madmen of BASE jumping. For more than two decades, he flung himself from the top of massive waterfalls, bridges, and skyscrapers, and managed to miraculously survive...
18 Nov 202042min
Latria Graham’s Love Letter to Black Adventurers
In the past couple of years, South Carolina–based writer Latria Graham has published a pair of essays in Outside magazine about the challenges that Black people face in the outdoors. Both stories gene...
11 Nov 202032min
How a Fight over Trees Transformed American Politics
It wasn’t all that long ago that protecting the environment was an issue considered to be above partisanship. In 1970, it was Richard Nixon who announced the formation of the Environmental Protection ...
4 Nov 202037min
