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'Save Yourselves!' Is a Surprisingly Fun Disaster Movie
Who could forget the story of the group that went on a 25-day Grand Canyon river trip in February and returned as some of the last people to hear about COVID-19’s arrival in America? Oh, do you also...
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Meet the Woman Teaching the Psychology of Survival
Kate Baecher and her mountaineering group were being guided over a dangerous traverse in Europe a few years ago when a climber in the party ahead of them fell hundreds of feet to her death. Baecher, a...
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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...
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What’s Wrong with Jeb’s Brain?
On a warm, breezy February day in 2000, Jeb Corliss strapped on a parachute and stepped to the edge of a 310-foot sandstone cliff in South Africa. To Corliss’s left, the Umgeni River poured green and...
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Training for Big-Wave Surfing? It's All in Your Head.
Natxo González paddles a thin line. At 25, the professional big-wave surfer from Spain’s Basque Country has already challenged some of the most legendary waves on the planet, riding giants at Punta...
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This Wearable Sleeping Bag Cures the Winter Blues
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the United States, many of us kept sane through socially distanced outdoor gatherings with friends. In the summer months, options abounded: camping trips, park...
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The Best Adventure Travel Books of 2020
Opportunities to be transported around the world through the pages of a good read have been a balm for adventure seekers. And with so many great releases this year, we had some trouble narrowing down...
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How a Surfer Survived Being Stranded in the Open Sea
Serious surfers train themselves to be ready for difficult moments: a brutal wipeout, being held down underwater by waves, losing a board and being forced to swim a mile to shore. Then there are the...
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A Veteran Surfer’s Big-Wave Nightmare
It began as every surfer’s dream: an empty point break, a rising swell, and a good friend to share the rides. But what happens when you’re out there and the waves just keep getting bigger and bigger...
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After the Crash, They Said I Was Fine. I Wasn't.
The thin haze of clouds parted as we entered a valley deep in the Monashee Mountains of southeast British Columbia. I was guiding five of my favorite heli-skiing clients in some of the world’s best...
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A Climbing Disaster Interrupted by a Love Story
When a groups of friends in their twenties set out to climb Mount Rainier, they felt like they were ready for anything. But on the upper slopes of the peak, trouble found them. A storm moved in, and...
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Buried Alive—and Running Out of Time
It was a glorious powder day in the Sierra Nevada when three friends set off into the backcountry at dawn. They had tons of experience and all the essential emergency gear, so they were unfazed by the...
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“It Was a Way to Keep His Spirit Alive”
In 2001, when Caroline Gleich was 15 years old, her half-brother Martin died in an avalanche while skiing in the Utah backcountry. That tragedy didn’t prevent Gleich from becoming a professional...
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Know How to Use Your Avalanche Transceiver
If you’ve spent $500 on the fanciest avalanche transceiver in existence but you don’t know how to use it, it’s not going to do you much good. In the event of a slide, that little beeping box is your...
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The Antibody Avenger and the Quest for a COVID-19 Cure
Since the early days of the pandemic, Jacob Glanville, a 40-year-old skateboarding immunologist with a silver tongue and a knack for self-promotion, has been proclaiming that he would develop the...
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How to Stay Comfortable When the Power Goes Out
Visiting a remote destination? The supply of electricity and other utilities becomes less reliable and more prone to outage the farther away from civilization you travel. Treating blackouts and other...
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‘Beloved Beasts’ Is a Riveting History of Conservation
In physics, the Doppler effect describes how a noise like a coming train will always sound different when it approaches than when it recedes. The noise itself is the same, but your perspective changes,...
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How to Set Up Your Truck for a Natural Disaster
Driving a capable truck may be the only way to stay mobile when natural disaster strikes. Carrying some basic supplies you probably already own will make the experience not only safer but also more...
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Embracing a Fear of Falling
If you’re a climber, the risk of falling is always there—it's an essential fact about the sport. And for a lot of climbers, this is actually part of the appeal. That was definitely how Brendan Leonard...
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The $40 Water Filter We All Need
Big disasters, such as the winter storm that shut down Texas’s power grid, are relatively rare. But you might be surprised to learn that boil-water advisories, like the one put into effect during that...
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