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The Outside Interview: Doc Parsley Solves Your Sleep Crisis
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to understand sleep deprivation, you want to talk to a member of the Navy SEALs, who go nearly a week without rest during training. And t...
Dispatches: Can Humans Outrun Antelope?
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Several decades ago, radio producer Scott Carrier and his brother Dave tried to chase down an antelope on foot. That might sound crazy, but Dave was a...
The Outside Interview: Dr. Michael Gervais on Mental Mastery
10 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For most athletes, achieving peak performance means training hard, eating right, and maybe some stretching. But when you get to the elite level, where...
Dispatches: Captain Jackass
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Fedarko is a celebrated and well-heeled journalist, accustomed to dropping in on an exotic place and extracting a story, often in less than a we...
The Outside Interview: Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece on the Extreme Edge of Fitness
26 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
More than two decades after he radically transformed big-wave surfing, Laird Hamilton is still a dominant force in the sport. As detailed in the new d...
Dispatches: The Fine Art of Weaponizing Critters
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Killer frogs! Forest-destroying moths! Bird-eating mongooses! These may sound like biblical plagues, but they’re the result of bad human decisions. ...
Dispatches: Jack Johnson Loses His Cool
06 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Johnson is known as the world’s mellowest pop star. A surfer raised on the north shore of Hawaii, his acoustic strumming has been the default ...
XX Factor: 1200 Miles on Blood Road
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca Rusch is called the "Queen of Pain" for a reason. She's a three-time world champion in the 24-Hour Mountain Bike race, the 2011 National XC si...
XX Factor: Vanessa Garrison Walks the Walk
09 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, Vanessa Garrison co-founded GirlTrek, an organization with a simple goal: get women walking for 30 minutes a day. Now 110,000 walkers strong,...
Science of Survival: A Very Scary Fish Story
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The swamps of Alabama are one of the most biodiverse places on earth. They’ve been called America’s Amazon for the remarkable number of species of...
XX Factor: How the Sports Bra Changed History
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Among most important advances in sports technology, few can compete with the invention of the sports bra. Following the passage of Title IX in 1972, w...
Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly every sport can point to a comedy taking aim at its flaws. Hockey has Slap Shot. Car racing has Talladega Nights. Skiing has Hot Dog. And dodge...
Science of Survival: Racing a Dying Brain
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When something goes wrong in the wilderness, someone needs to evacuate and get help. When that someone is you, and every minute counts, the stress is ...
XX Factor: The Ice Queen Cometh
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
You hear about how the Arctic changes people—how it can lead them to lose their minds a little bit, or make dumb mistakes. Then there are those adve...
Science of Survival: Drinking Yourself to Death
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Water is life, we’re told. But what if you drink too much? As it turns out, there’s a little-discussed flipside to dehydration called hyponatremia...
XX Factor: Diana Nyad Goes the Distance
17 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage? According to Diana Nyad, the answer is passion bordering on obsession. Nyad first...
XX Factor: Snowboarding While Iranian
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mona Seraji is the first snowboarder from the Middle East to compete professionally in the Freeride World Qualifier, a series of big-mountain events t...
Science of Survival: Cloudbusters
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Human beings spent centuries trying to control the weather. Then, about 70 years ago, we figured out the basics of what it takes to make it rain. Now,...
Science of Survival: The Death Blow
19 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Science can’t fully explain why and how tornadoes form. But on May 31, 2013, all the factors we do understand pointed towards off-the-charts risk in...
XX Factor: A Woman’s Place is on Top
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Back when men still believed the “weaker sex” were inferior climbers, Arlene Blum led a women’s ascent of Annapurna, the world’s tenth-highest...
XX Factor: Beth Rodden Unpacked
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s, Beth Rodden was a climbing prodigy, celebrated for her athletic gifts and unwavering discipline. Then, while on an expedition in Central...
Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 2
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Once Joe Stone learned how to use his paralyzed body, he immediately set an audacious goal: he would race in an Ironman triathlon—despite the fact t...
Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 1
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Stone doesn’t do anything halfway. Back when he was a skater, he went big. When he partied, he went hard. When he took up skydiving and speed-fl...
Science of Survival: The Everest Effect
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of May 25, 2006, Myles Osborne was poised to become one of the last climbers of the season to summit Mount Everest. The weather was p...
The Outside Interview: Florence Williams on The Nature Fix
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the cure for our modern malaise of stress, distraction, and screen addiction? Nature, of course. But while many people advocate the benefits ...
Science of Survival: Treed by a Jaguar
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1970, Ed Welch and Bruce Frey put in a canoe at the headwaters of the Amazon and shoved off into the current. Their only plan was to ...
Science of Survival: Line of Blood in the Sand
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Denmark's rugged Faroe Islands are known for sheep, rowboats, and a brutal tradition called “The Grind” in which Faroese men butcher hundreds of p...
The Outside Interview: Mark Sundeen on the New Pioneers
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Mark Sundeen spent the last three years chronicling the lives of three couples who have dropped out of mainstream society, trading cars, techno...
Dispatches: Call of the Wild Things
13 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wolf howls, bird songs, crickets, frogs—soundscapes contain clues to not only what's going on around us but also who we are. Not just as individuals...
The Outside Interview: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell
29 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
“If you're not at the table, you're on the menu,” says Sally Jewell. Hopeful, thoughtful, slightly ticked-off, and surprisingly emotional, the out...
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 3
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Futrell and Isaac Stonerand are back from searching through the wreckage of Eastern Airlines Flight 980 on a remote mountain in Bolivia, and t...
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 2
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Since colliding with a Bolivian mountain in 1985, Eastern Airlines Flight 980 has been frozen inside a glacier perched on the edge of a 3,000-foot dro...
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 1
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Since colliding into a Bolivian mountain in 1985, Eastern Airlines Flight 980 has been frozen inside a glacier perched on the edge of a 3,000-foot dro...
Dispatches: National Parks Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Reverence
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
John Muir rhapsodizing about Yosemite is one thing, but Outside contributing editor Ian Frazier has had it with people calling their favorite outdoor ...
Dispatches: The Sound of Science
20 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists are compiling huge amounts of data on the impact of global warming, but the story of that data often gets lost. Enter NikSawe, a researcher...
The Outside Interview: The Hard Lessons of Climbing Superstar Conrad Anker
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For two decades, Conrad Anker has been at the forefront of climbing, evolving into America’s best all-around alpinist. With skills on rock, ice, ...
The Outside Interview: The Secret History of Doping
24 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Author Mark Johnson argues that performance enhancing drugs are hardly a recent phenomenon. In his new book, Spitting in the Soup, he traces doping al...
The Outside Interview: Tim Ferriss Overshares
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Ferriss is many things. A bestselling author. A kickboxing champion. A horseback archer. The first American in history to hold a Guinness World Re...
The Outside Interview: Jason Motlagh on the Darién Gap
26 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Motlagh and his crew were the first journalists in years to successfully cross the Darién Gap, a lawless, roadless jungle on the border of Colo...
The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton
13 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Young Pelton has made a career of tracking down warlords and interviewing people in the most dangerous places in the world. He's been kidnapped...
Science of Survival: In Too Deep
28 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It could be one of the most incredible, yet perplexing, survival stories of all time: In 1991, a man named Michael Proudfoot was supposedly SCUBA di...
Science of Survival: Under Pressure
14 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re stuck underwater in a submarine, the number of ways you can die is long and varied—crushing, burning, asphyxiation, exploding, the lis...
Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part II
17 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, the Devil’s Highway—a waterless pathway through desert in southern Arizona—was one of the deadliest places in North America, kill...
Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part I
03 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Thirst is an unpredictable threat. In its early stages, it’s much like mild hunger. For centuries, hydration was as much superstition as science. Bu...
Science of Survival BONUS: Whatever Happens, Happens
26 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most famous accidents in wingsuit history.
Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning
11 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the time, when lightning makes the news, it’s because of an outlandish happening, seemingly too strange to be true. Like the park ranger who...
Science of Survival: Frozen Alive
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This thrilling re-creation of the classic hypothermia feature by Peter Stark brings the listener through a series of plausible mishaps on a bitterly c...
Science of Survival
22 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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