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Knuckleball!, which premiered last Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival, traces the careers of pitchers R.A. Dickey and Tim Wakefield as they navigate the ups and downs of their marginalized society
The adventurer and television personality has come face to face with tigers, snakes, crocodiles, and more. He's been hospitalized more times than he can count. But he wouldn't give it up for anything.
Todd Balf鈥檚 new book unearths a nail-biting 19th-century adventure story all but lost to history
A new documentary short playing at the Tribeca Film Festival tells the story of Leonid and his pregnant wife, Lyudmila, a couple that lived just miles from the nuclear power plant when it went into meltdown
In February of 2011, a group of 16 friends took off to explore 22 slot canyons while rafting 280 miles of river in the Grand Canyon. They recorded their month-long canyoneering journey and turned it into a film, The Last of…
A few months have gone by since we were honored by the team at 国产吃瓜黑料, and its high time we gave you an update. Kristian and I have been in hot pursuit of our dreams and vision, which are inspired by a world with clean and healthy watersheds so we…
A review of Benji, a documentary premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival that revisits the murder of a 1980s high school basketball phenom
For the past five decades, 68-year-old Baltazar Ushca has made a living by harvesting glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador. His work is no longer needed, but he still gets up every morning to climb to 16,000 feet.
Here's a bunch of stories I didn't write, a bunch of videos I didn't post, and a bunch of photos I just didn't call out for whatever reason this week. I like them all and think they're worth your time. Please let me know if there's anything I missed. (And…
Jason Mecier artwork, on auction for Keep America Beautiful. Brought to you by Glad Bags. “If I get one more email on the subject, I'm going to celebrate Earth Day by kicking Gaia in the nuts,” declared journalist…
In Town of Runners, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Jerry Rothwell travels to Bekoji, Ethiopia鈥攁 hotbed of world-class long-distance runners such as Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele…
In Paraiso Nadav Kurtz follows three Mexican immigrants as they make a living washing the windows of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers
For the last five decades, Baltazar Ushca has made a living harvesting glacial ice from the tallest mountain in Ecuador…
Image courtesy of Central Asia Institute The lawsuits started roughly a year ago and they have evolved over time to include new and different plaintiffs, but today will be the first day that lawyers for Greg Mortenson, CAI,…
Three immigrant window cleaners risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers. Para铆so reveals the danger of their job and what they see on the way down.
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Ep. 181: Extreme Skiing HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel just sent out a press release announcing the airing of a special segment on backcountry skiing tonight at 10 EST. In the clip above, extreme…
Eight of the biggest icons in the world 国产吃瓜黑料 offer their hard-earned tips
Ikal聽Angelei on the shores of Lake Turkana. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize Running Ethiopia's Omo River聽can be a serious adventure, as we described here in 2008, but more importantly, the river is a lifeline for those who rely on the water and…
Conceptual artist Fabian Knecht partners with American climbers Emily Harrington and Sam Elias to take his latest performance project to the top of Everest
Mike Dion's first feature-length film, Ride The Divide, followed three cyclists on the inaugural Tour Divide, a 2,700-mile self-supported bikepacking race along the Continental Divide from Banff, Canada to Antelopes Wells, New Mexico, a dusty crossing on the…
聽 With two high-energy rippers in our house, I鈥檝e been trying to figure out how to slow down a little. Last week I posted some suggestions about traveling locally and scheduling fewer activities. Meditating is the obvious way to go,…
As Mark Jenkins knows, wilderness first aid can hurt. (Just ask his patients.) So he finally did what everyone should do: he took a class from real experts.
The son of IMAX king Greg MacGillivray, Shaun MacGillivray has been on film sets from Saudi Arabia to Everest. So what has the crown prince of the giant screen learned from dear old dad? Keep an eye on the tiger, don鈥檛 smell the walrus, and never stop working.
The Office of Consumer Protection Montana Department of Justice released the following report on Greg Mortenson and Central Asia Institute on April 5, 2012
聽 Source: nytimes.com 聽 This past Sunday’s聽New York Times Magazine ran a photo gallery called 鈥淭he Shape of Things,鈥 featuring the work of Tierney Gearon. I hadn鈥檛 heard of her before, but…
The latest Imax film takes us to the Arctic. Watch the trailer and learn more about award-winning director Greg MacGillivray and his son Shaun MacGillivray here.
A new book celebrates Ten Years of the Tour d'Afrique Bicycle Race and Expedition
Let go of the need to do it all and just do some of it
Shivling Peak via Shutterstock Photograper: Galyna Andrushko As mountaineers from around the world converge in Nepal and prepare for the 2012 Everest climbing season, Apa Sherpa, the porter-turned-professional-climber who has summited the mountain 21 times, is in the midst of…
Stay-at-home-mom (sort of): Wendy at work on the steeps of CB [courtesy Wendy Fisher] Officially it鈥檚 spring, but here at Rippers, we鈥檙e determined to squeeze every last drop out of winter. In honor of fresh snow in the Northwest, epic powder onslaughts…
> [Video:聽Groudswell聽(Trailer)聽from the聽Patagonia Video Gallery] Keystone XL isn't the only pipeline in the works that will send oil from Alberta oil sands to far-off lands. Canadian pipeline builder Enbridge wants to build a new pipe to connect Edmonton with the port of…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DHDGv1RR2v4%C2%A0 鈥淭he Hunger Games鈥 may be rocking the box office this weekend, but we have a better bet for family night at the movies: the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. The show, which brings the best of the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival to venues on seven continents, came…
The B.C. Coast 聽Photo: Flickr/Dogwood Initiative If the U.S. doesn't allow the northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline to be built, Canada is just going to sell its oil to power-hungry China. That's one of the common rebuttals to opposition of the proposed Keystone XL…
Photo: Flickr/Harlequeen I can't kick the print habit; I love diving into the fat stack of New York Times on Sunday mornings. But I've just been reminded of the joys and sometimes superiority of electronic media. I read with interest Kim Tingley's “Whisper…
Our photo director Amy Silverman goes behind the scenes of our January cover shoot.
This morning the Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the Discovery Channel has ended its relationship with its beetle-eating megastar Bear Grylls. According to the story, the dispute concerns two unnamed projects that Discovery wanted Grylls to participate in. Discovery issued a…
国产吃瓜黑料 awaits @ Manuel Antonio; photo: Tulemar Costa Rica is Central America鈥檚 answer to New Zealand: small place, huge adrenaline rush. With surfing beaches, cloud forests, rainforests, eco lodges, and active volcanos crammed into a country the size of West Virginia, it鈥檚 no wonder…
A Q&A with former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on his incredibly shrinking country
Kadoma pays tribute to paddler Hendri Coetzee, who was killed by a croc in Africa. Read Consumed, Grayson Schaffer‘s story about the remarkable life of Coetzee.
About a year ago, I was at the Bay Area headquarters of a major outdoor industry brand, when the guy I was meeting with explained that he鈥檇 given up trying to seriously train for cycling. For years, he鈥檇 been an avid competitor and he loved the hard physical work of…
I recently discovered the website, Kids Who Rip. Not sure how I missed this one, but it’s rad little video library of kids killing it on bikes, skis, kiteboards, surfboards, skateboards, balance beams, and pretty much every other conveyance and game known to childhood. You can submit…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YGGUfYFdFrc%C2%A0 The Telluride MountainFilm Festival came through Santa Fe recently, and I had the opportunity to catch up with half a dozen terrific adventure flicks that I'd missed over Memorial Day weekend in Colorado. Going to see Mountainfilm always takes ten years off my life鈥攊n a good…
Left: Horsetail Falls, 2011. Photo: Joe Azure Right: The Firefall. Photo: National Park Service The window is closing on a yearly glimpse of a natural phenomena at Yosemite National Park, during which the angle of the sun and the flow of water off…
A rainless winter means little water at the new wetlands park. Photo: Seth Strongin/TheCity Project In South Los Angeles, a former bus and rail transit station has been replaced by a nine-acre park that includes native trees and plant gardens, walking trails and…
I snuck away on Saturday for a ski day at Taos, my first of the season. The mountain was in fine form, thanks to a storm track that dumped nearly two feet of snow last week, and my little posse and I started the day with a hike to 12,481-foot…
A team of biologists and filmmakers is 32 days into a 100-day, 1000-mile trek, via kayak, bike and foot, from the southern tip of Florida up to the聽Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southern Georgia. And should you think that sounds like a bit of a pleasure cruise, check out this…
You consider yourself a gentleman, and so it's important, when you wake up with a stranger in your underpants one remorseful summer morning, that you manage the matter with due delicacy and grace.
When the head of the FIS聽said ski jumping was not safe for women, Lindsey Van fought. This movie chronicles her struggle. Interview | Gallery…
It鈥檚 been ten months since Jon Krakauer and 60 Minutes alleged that the star of Three Cups of Tea was a literary fraud who used the Central Asia Institute as a personal cash cow, prompting a civil suit and an investigation by Montana鈥檚 attorney general. Mortenson still isn鈥檛 talking. But the case is heating up, with important developments in t
Nancy Black, a 49-year-old marine biologist and the co-owner of a whale watching operation in Monterey, California, has pleaded not guilty to charges that she was feeding killer whales during two filming expeditions. According to the Monterey County Herald, the government has also been investigating the Jean-Michel…
Dean Potter sets his sights on a free-BASE of Canada’s Mt. Bute, angling to break his own world record for the longest wingsuit flight. Watch the full episode on National Geographic.
Join us here on Thursday, March 22, at 6 P.M. MST to watch three of Sender’s best films and chat with the filmmakers and athletes, including Dean Potter and Ueli Steck.
I admit it: It鈥檚 a little hypocritical for a blog about raising adventurous, outdoor kids to be reviewing TV commercials, but I can鈥檛 resist reposting this ad, 鈥淭he Next Ones,鈥 which aired on the sly during the Super Bowl post-game show yesterday. The commercial, for NBC Sports Network, pays tribute…
Scouring the country鈥檚 premier film festival for the best environmental and adventure documentaries
Photo: Copyright Christo There's nothing like a mountain community scorned. As Colorado's Fremont County weighs its decision on whether to grant a land use permit to public artist Christo so he can hang a series of聽translucent fabric panels above the Arkansas River, hundreds…
An exclusive clip from a film about America as a prison state and the war on drugs.
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From a shave and shower to finding love, this is what a life lived on a bike looks like.聽 A film by Guillaume Blanchet.
A new film by Southern Underground Productions investigates why extreme sports athletes risk their lives for adrenaline. For more, read Florence Williams’ classic, This is Your Brain on 国产吃瓜黑料.
Filmmaker Mads Br眉gger goes undercover to infiltrate the African blood diamond business in his new movie, which premiered at Sundance 2012. Read the interview.
Stacy Peralta’s new movie about the early days of skateboarding for Powell and Peralta. Read an interview with Peralta about the movie.
My friend, Lauren, likes to call cyclists “total DBags,” and though a big part of my life revolves around cycling I'm generally inclined to agree with her. Lauren's quibble鈥攑artly affectionate, deathly serious鈥攊sn't with biking, per se: she rides plenty, and her partner is not only blazing fast on a bike…
James Balog is attempting to convince the world that the climate is changing using only photographs. Read our interview with Balog.
It鈥檚 late January. The days are getting longer, the sun is getting just a teensy bit stronger. Who doesn't have beach days or bluebird powder days on the brain? Which brings to mind one of parenthood鈥檚 more onerous tasks: applying sunscreen. It鈥檚 sticky, the kids are wriggly, and if…
Outdoor Retailer Winter Market kicks off today in Salt Lake City, and we'll be prowling the aisles鈥攙irtually鈥攆or the best new adventure gear, apparel, gadgets and goodies for active kiddos. (Cue the drooling.) Today鈥檚 pick: the first ever stainless steel baby bottle from Klean Kanteen.聽 Breast may be best, but when…
Read Brad Wiener‘s review of the film, and聽Mary Catherine O’Connor’s take on The Grey‘s negatival portrayal of wolves.
Sheffield 国产吃瓜黑料 Film Festival features highlights from some of the top adventure films of the past year.
Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
William Trubridge is on a mission to freedive鈥搘ithout fins or oxygen鈥揹eeper than anybody ever has before. Read James Nestor’s story on the terrifying sport of freediving, Open Your Mouth and Your Dead.
Go here to watch the full film and chat with the filmmaker, Peter McBride, on Thursday night between 6鈥9 MST.
We break down the best sites, Facebook and Twitter accounts, and apps for travelers, bikers, gear nerds, and more
Who wants to shoot STA Australia's next web campaign? This past year, the travel company sent three guys on a 44-day round-the-world trip and then turned their journey into a series of three emotive 60-second videos. Director Rick Mereki shot…
15-year old Jordan Romero on his quest to bag the 7 Summits [Jordan Romero] Now that the holiday madness is almost over, I finally have some time to reflect on the happenings of the past year. I鈥檝e been lucky to have so many great adventures, and…
Here are the articles you read the most in 2011. They are a mix of longform journalism and inspired service. We’re hoping this list will help you in 2012, whether you’re looking for a good read on your next flight or a new job. 10Consumed…