"It's crazy to me that we have all of this beauty and nature around us, and some people don't even see it. For me, I get to appreciate it sober. Something I did...
Jacob Urban’s depression started after the helicopter crash. It was February 15, 2012, and a helicopter carrying rescue workers from Wyoming’s Teton County Sear...
Kate Courtney says she just has a particularly high level of grit.
That may be true, but it takes more than grit to top the podium. She won the women’s UCI M...
Ultrarunner Pavel Toropov remembers the early days of China’s ultrarunning boom in searing snapshots. Running barely marked courses across the Gobi desert. Comp...
“They said if we didn’t succeed they would never hire women again.”
Ada Hatch’s smile reflects the brilliance of her yellow sundress when she says this. But ...
In the middle of summer in the high desert of Nevada and on the alpine slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada, the trails were so dusty I was breathing in dirt. S...
For the past two years, the REI community has helped improve outdoor recreation opportunities in our national forests and grasslands through $1 million donation...
#OptOutside has always been about choice. The choice to put people ahead of profits, the choice to close our doors on the biggest day in retail and the choice t...
You know the signs: Ski films on tour, all the latest skis and boards on store shelves and early flakes on distant peaks. Winter is coming. If you’re planning a...
One of North Carolina’s best winter climbing destinations has a new approach trail and freshly negotiated access for climbers. Sauratown (pronounced “sour town”...
K2, called locally Dapsang or Chogori and dubbed the Savage Mountain, is the world’s second highest peak—bested by only 779 feet by Mount Everest. Towering 28,2...
We all have dreams, aspirations—a bucket list. Before signing up to climb Kilimanjaro, I had been interested in mountaineering for a few years. Then, at the 201...
