Tanzania is one of Africa's leading destinations for good reason. From the Zanzibar's white sand beaches and azure waters to the 12-mile-wide Ngorongoro Crater ...
Chris McNamara has ideas—big ones. A professional climber and writer based in South Lake Tahoe, California, he also has experience acting on them. Like in 1999,...
The crosscut saw is an impressive tool. At six feet long, with sharp teeth and smooth wooden handles on either end, it takes two people moving perfectly in unis...
Winter camping doesn’t have to mean cold nights, thick sleeping bags and snow-covered tents. It can just as easily involve T-shirts, sunscreen and, most importa...
Towering 11,000-foot mountains, barren salt flats, sand dunes, deep canyons, expansive vistas and hidden oases make Death Valley National Park a hiker's playgro...
When Meghan Young finished law school in 2015 and decided to resume her outdoor hobbies with a vengeance, she realized most of her adventure buddies were men. S...
2019 was a year to talk about climate change. Youth-led climate protests broke records. The U.S. began to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Scientists wa...
After 86 years as a national monument, the world’s largest gypsum dune field has become a national park. On Dec. 20, President Trump signed the National Defense...
As the clock struck midnight and the year ticked over to 2015, Noah Strycker, 29, sat in a hot tub aboard a boat south of Cape Horn near Antarctica, a bottle of...
Washington’s Cascade mountain range houses some of the country’s most intriguing mammals, including black bears, cougars, grey wolves and wolverines. But when I...
Winter sports can feel downright difficult to pull off smoothly. You’ve got tough winter weather and heaps of gear to transport from one place to the next. (Hav...
With 39 mountain ranges, more than 3,000 rivers, 1,800 named islands and 17 of the 20 highest peaks in the U.S., the basic math of Alaska is impressive, but the...
