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Laurenne Ross' Road-Trip Essentials
In the thick of World Cup season, 26-year-old downhill racer Laurenne Ross talked to us about her favorite things while driving between Cortina, Italy, and Moritz, Switzerland. She had just placed...
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One of Snowboarding's Youngest Stars Makes a Comeback
Last year, she was stuck in a holding pattern, finishing a disappointing 14th place at Sochi because of a foot injury. This year, pro slopestyle snowboarder Ty Walker, 17, has her vindication. In...
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Alpine Championships: U.S. Skier Sarah Schleper Returns—for Mexico
Four-time U.S. Olympian Sarah Schleper stood in the starting gate of the giant slalom race at the Alpine World Championships in Beaver Creek on Thursday, ready to spring. Unlike the other Americans...
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Where in the World Did Karl Egloff Come From?
On February 19, Karl Egloff finished a hard push to the top of 22,837-foot Aconcagua in 7 hours, 55 minutes, fueled mainly by a handful of energy gels and bars. Standing on the summit, inhaling the...
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4 Things Chris Sharma Learned from Climbing a Tree
We've all climbed trees, but most of us have probably never climbed a tree like professional climber Chris Sharma just did while on a visit to his home state of California. The 34-year-old free-climbed...
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How Conrad Anker Risked It All to Chase a Dream
As a genre, climbing films are a risky enterprise, pocked with philosophical crevasses, hackneyed themes, and obvious pitfalls: you need to get outside your comfort zone; it isn’t so much the fear of...
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Larry Fitzgerald Is the Most Adventurous Man in the NFL
From August to January, Fitzgerald is one of the best wide receivers in football. The rest of the time, the eight-time Pro Bowler for the Arizona Cardinals travels the world to sandboard volcanoes,...
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How Hilaree O'Neill Bounced Back from the Most Demoralizing Climb of Her Life
Early last November, Hilaree O’Neill was on a ledge roughly 1,100 feet below the top of Hkakabo Razi, pinned down by one of the harshest winds she’d ever experienced. Hkakabo Razi, in northern Myanmar,...
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Scott Jurek: "I’m Getting Tired of this Stuff. It’s a Waste of Time and...
After setting the speed record on the Appalachian Trail in July, covering the entire 2,160-mile journey on foot in fewer than 47 days, sometimes hoofing 50 miles in a single day, Scott Jurek should...
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Lucky Chance Dies in a Rope Swing Accident
During the editing process, we introduced an error into the headline. And during the production process, we uploaded a URL that was off-base. Outside regrets the errors. The Australian climber, BASE...
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Inside the Most Dangerous Bike Comp on Earth
Of the dozens of crashes at last fall’s Red Bull Rampage, the one that rattled me most was Kelly McGarry’s. During practice a few days before the competition, McGarry, a 32-year-old from New Zealand,...
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Dean Potter's Final Essay on Love and Adventure
Dean Potter wrote this essay on adventuring with his dog, Whisper, not long before he died in a BASE-jumping accident in Yosemite last spring. We’re publishing his words now, with the permission of his...
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Op-Ed: Utah’s Power Plants Are Threatening the Ski Industry
My younger brother John and I grew up in Snowbird Ski Resort’s employee housing, high in Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, 30 minutes drive from downtown Salt Lake City and home to Snowbird and Alta,...
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How to Cheat Death and Other Priceless Advice from Mick Fanning
There’s no shortage of life advice these days. Some of it is even valuable. What’s harder to find are honest lessons from people who’ve learned the hard way how to achieve success and happiness no...
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How to Survive a 1,600-foot Tumble
Ian McIntosh was maybe five turns into a first descent of a jagged Alaskan peak when things went wrong. The 34-year-old Canadian pro skier was filming a segment for Teton Gravity Research and carving...
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A 600-Mile Run Through the Mountains
Photo Gallery: A 600-Mile Run Through the Mountains This fall, world-renowned ultrarunners Mike Wolfe and Mike Foote partnered with photographer Steven Gnam to run across some of the highest, wildest...
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Kelly Slater Helps Rescue Toddler and Mother from Giant Wave
Legendary pro surfer Kelly Slater added “hero” to his long list of accomplishments after he helped save the lives of a woman and her young son who were knocked over by a rogue wave in Oahu on...
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The Last Days of Dave Mirra
When news broke that Dave Mirra, the most dominant and decorated BMX star in X Games history, had committed suicide at age 41 in his hometown of Greenville, North Carolina, on February 4, his friends...
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If You're a Top Ultrarunner, Nicolás Miranda Is Your Secret Weapon
In November, two months before Brazilian ultrarunner Fernanda Maciel attempted a speed record up and down 22,841-foot Aconcagua—the highest peak in the Americas—she had a conversation with Karl...
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Mark Healey Is the Greatest Athlete You've Never Heard Of
The island of Mikomoto is a barren, windswept, wave-battered chunk of basalt infested with sharks and scoured by current, and looks as if it erupted from the fever dream of a malarial sea captain. Six...
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