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Award winning director Michael Brown talks about how to find the best movie for your adventure short. 国产吃瓜黑料 国产吃瓜黑料 Film School…
Ultrarunner Krissy Moehl experiences a lifetime of joy, tedium and wonder during 100-mile races.
An intimate look inside one of the most successful Mount Everest expeditions ever.
Did James Franco’s film 127 Hours unleash a string of tragedies in Utah’s Blue John Canyon? Peter Vigneron investigates.
Skiers and snowboarders try to best each other with big air and high-flying tricks.
The safety rules to be followed when filming on mountains.
Award-winning director Michael Brown shares how and where to submit for success.
A look into the life of gear testing in the outdoors. By Kyle Dickman, 国产吃瓜黑料 Serac 国产吃瓜黑料 Film School…
The team moves through wind and fog toward the summit.
Tino Specht prepares for a freestyle event.
Haunted by George Mallory's story, Conrad Anker heads to Everest to unravel the mysteries surrounding his disappearance.
Jonaven鑸梥 season is nearing its conclusion, but before that happens he鑸梥 got a statement to make.
A hysterical behind-the-scenes look at the making of Gone Missing.
Follow an expedition to ski North Africa's highest peak.
Three surprisingly gratifying genre novels that take you away
The 国产吃瓜黑料 国产吃瓜黑料 Film School went to the Teva Mountain Games and spent a week filming climbing, kayaking, and mountain biking. Here are three videos Michael Brown's students came up with. Behind the Scenes…
Climber Matt Maddaloni works on pushing the limits of climbing with a new tool called the anticam. theseasontv.com…
国产吃瓜黑料 contributor Alan Arnette discusses his plan to climb the seven summits and raise more than $1 millon for Alzheimer's research鈥攁ll within a year. To listen to the extended interview click here, or subscribe to our…
Go behind the scenes of photographer Nigel Parry’s May 2011 国产吃瓜黑料 magazine cover shoot with Stephen Colbert…
Courtesy of Rodale His middle name, Makalani, is Hawaiian for “skilled at writing,” so it's no surprise that Cincinnati Bengals' defensive captain Dhani Jones has a book out this month. In The Sportsman, he chronicles the…
Courtesy of Rodale His middle name, Makalani, is Hawaiian for “skilled at writing,” so it's no surprise that Cincinnati Bengals' defensive captain Dhani Jones has a book out this month. In The Sportsman, he chronicles the…
Mountainfilm is at once the most refreshing and exhausting event of the year. For four days 2,000 guests do everything they can to watch all 73 films, listen to the 18 panel discussions, and shake the hand of each of the 29 authors at the book signings. Between events everybody…
Mountaineer Conrad Anker discusses his new DVD The Wildest Dream, discovering George Mallory's body on Everest, and his plans to compete in the 2014 Olympics. To listen to the extended interview click here, or subscribe…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QAGxy85R380%C2%A0 The final pre-Mountainfilm trailer we're showing is聽If a Tree Falls, a film from Academy Award nominated director Marshall Curry. The feature documentary tells the story of the rise and fall of the violent anarchist group the Earth Liberation Front. The…
聽 Bidder 70 from Gage & Gage Productions on Vimeo. Tim DeChristopher has been in the news since December 2008, when the former University of Utah economics student bid $1.8 million on 13 parcels of BLM land in Utah at a federal…
Kadoma_teaser from Ben Stookesberry on Vimeo. Telluride, Colorado's Mountainfilm is four days out and counting. To continue our trailer-a-day trend, here's聽Kadoma, a film from whitewater kayakers and filmmakers Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic. Kadoma tells the story of their…
This year's Mountainfilm, which starts Friday in Telluride, Colorado, features three films about happiness. Here are their trailers. The first, called simply Happy, is an 80-minute feature film from Roko Belic, who directed the Academy-Award nominated Genghis Blues. To shoot Happy, Belic…
A few months ago, I got an email from filmmaker Trip Jennings telling me Spoil, a film he directed and I helped put together, was selected to Telluride, Colorado's Mountainfilm festival, which starts a week from today. This is where I gush. Telluride's surrounded by…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NdAoLloMY9c American Rivers, the country鈥檚 foremost river focused nonprofit, released their annual list of the top ten endangered rivers yesterday. It marks the 26th year American Rivers has released the report, drawing attention to some 360…
One year after the spill, two books examine the causes and effects of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
They say that becoming a dad means your days of big trips and serious adventure are over. They are so wrong.
Journey of Hope 2011, Courtesy of Central Asia Institute Late last Friday, 国产吃瓜黑料 obtained an advance copy of the Central Asia Institute鈥檚 annual Journey of Hope newsletter from Anne Beyersdorfer, the independent public relations specialist who has, for the past three weeks, acted as the…
COLD – TRAILER from Anson Fogel on Vimeo. Anson Fogel鈥檚 new film Cold is a gripping edit of the footage photographer and mountaineer Cory Richards鈥檚 shot during his February ascent of Pakistan's 26,360-foot Gasherbrum II.
Court papers filed today in the U.S. District Court in Missoula, Montana, claim that embattled Central Asia Institute founder and philanthropist Greg Mortenson defrauded both his donors and people who purchased his books, Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools. A copy of the complaint, which was filed by…
The Scene, the latest movie from filmmaker Chuck Fryberger, looks at the varied ways people send by traveling to four of the world's most vibrant climbing communities: the sandstone Mecca of Moab, Utah; the cutting-edge sport crags of Catalonia; the competition scene of Innsbruck,…
So many things happened in the 国产吃瓜黑料 world this April that we understand you not keeping track of everything. Here are the highlights, including some wicked mountain-bike porn, 国产吃瓜黑料's best covers, a bit on the Greg Mortenson controversy, and a love letter. Number 10:…
聽 https://youtube.com/watch?v=hN2gMP3Q2Z4%C2%A0 Brace yourself for stupidity, but do watch this video of an armor-clad waterskier killing Asian Carp on the Illinois River near Peoria. His weapon is a samurai sword, and his intent is to accomplish what invasive species management teams have been unable to: purge Asian Carp, which now…
This is a big month for wild salmon advocates. On Sunday, May 1 at 8 PM Eastern, PBS will air a Nature special, Salmon: Running the Gauntlet, that offers a terrific broad-strokes history of the collapse of the fish in the once-prolific Columbia…
Last week, attempting to address accusations that he鈥檇 fabricated large portions of his bestselling book Three Cups of Tea, author and Central Asia Institute founder Greg Mortenson revised his story about stumbling lost into the Pakistani town of Korphe on his way…
A new memoir from a fire lookout makes a convincing case for quitting your job.
In case you missed it, Fitz Cahall and Bryan Smith put out another great video short about two weeks ago. The film is called The Love Letter, and its message is simple. Every once in a while it's good to…
Best-selling author Greg Mortenson came under fire this weekend when a piece on 60 Minutes called into question the veracity of Mortenson's books Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, and the financial management of his Bozeman, Montana-based nonprofit, the Central Asia Institute (…
Best-selling author Greg Mortenson came under fire this weekend when a piece on 60 Minutes called into question the veracity of Mortenson’s books Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools, and the financial management of his Bozeman, Montana-based nonprofit, the Central Asia Institute (…
Sometime around World War II, synthetics exploded into our everyday lives. By some estimates, these materials鈥攑lasticizers, dyes, pesticides鈥攈ave increased by a shocking 8,200 percent in the last quarter century. The upshot of that, of course, has been improved agriculture, economic wealth, and an abundance of…
Sometime around World War II, synthetics exploded into our everyday lives. By some estimates, these materials鈥攑lasticizers, dyes, pesticides鈥攈ave increased by a shocking 8,200 percent in the last quarter century. The upshot of that, of course, has been improved agriculture, economic wealth, and an abundance of…
Geoelectric image showing electrical conductivity of magma plume beneath Yellowstone Caldera. Courtesy of the University of Utah. Geophysicists at the University of Utah have…
Geoelectric image showing electrical conductivity of magma plume beneath Yellowstone Caldera. Courtesy of the University of Utah. Geophysicists at the University of Utah have…
A cold day in Yosemite National Park. Courtesy of Fovea Centralis on Flickr Five months into the fiscal year, the federal government's inability to find common ground on the annual budget is…
A cold day in Yosemite National Park. Courtesy of Fovea Centralis on Flickr Five months into the fiscal year, the federal government's inability to find common ground on the annual budget is…
Jeremy Wade, Host of Animal Planet's River Monsters (Courtesy Animal Planet) In the first two seasons of Animal Planet鈥檚 River Monsters, host Jeremy Wade has taken viewers around the world as he looks to discover the truth behind some of fishing鈥檚 tallest tales. Before…
Jeremy Wade, Host of Animal Planet's River Monsters (Courtesy Animal Planet) In the first two seasons of Animal Planet鈥檚 River Monsters, host Jeremy Wade has taken viewers around the world as he looks to discover the truth behind some of fishing鈥檚 tallest tales. Before Season…
Photo from backtothewildbook.org Fans of Jon Krakauer's 1993 story Death of an Innocent鈥攁nd the resulting book and…
Photo from backtothewildbook.org Fans of Jon Krakauer’s 1993 story Death of an Innocent鈥攁nd the resulting book and…
Courtesy of Flickr A slew of big news stories have hit the wires this morning. Here they are all in one clump, for obvious reasons. A new Mount Everest record is scheduled to be set,…
Courtesy of Flickr A slew of big news stories have hit the wires this morning. Here they are all in one clump, for obvious reasons. A new Mount Everest record is scheduled to be set,…
Just in case you were outside during the entire month of March, here's what you missed on the 国产吃瓜黑料 blog. 10. The World's Strongest 9 Year Old https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ml-rxMwcaf0%C2%A0%C2%A0 9. Spring Break Survival Gear…
Alexandra Horowitz on her bestseller Inside of a Dog, summer tips for your pooch, and why the Far Side gets it right. To listen to the extended interview click here, or subscribe to our iTunes podcasts.鈥擲tayton…
Dr. John R. Sharp, who teaches at Harvard and UCLA, has been practicing psychiatry for two decades. He brings his wisdom to the masses with The Emotional Calendar, a book of case studies and advice on recognizing…
We found a lot of people getting outside and doing what they love this week. Here鈥檚 hoping they inspire you to do the same. The stuff you need to click on this week: Dommy No MatesAlaska to Chile, on a Tandem Bike via…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vnwPSu7B2pM On Tuesday, Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, and, most recently, Why We Get Fat, appeared on the Dr.
An exclusive preview of Tracy Ross's new memoir, a gripping account of childhood sexual abuse, escape, and the healing power of wilderness and adventure.
Flying bikes, floating cars, and Yogi Bear in the gray bar hotel. Once again, here's the stuff you should click on this week. The Best Helmet Cam Footage We've Seen in a WhileChile's Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Race –Michael Webster…
They met in Alaska and became the ultimate adventure couple, biking and hiking and skiing their way to lifelong commitment. Then the kids and careers arrived, and the passion started leaking like oil from his bro truck. (Don't get her started on that.) Can a hardcore backpacking trip stand in for couples therapy? The author drags her husband into the Colorado wilderness to find out.
Patagonia has teamed up with a group of musicians to create Patagonia Music. Artists donate exclusive versions of songs鈥擯atagonia says you won't find these songs anywhere else鈥攖o the Patagonia Music Collective. When a listener purchases one of the songs on iTunes, a portion of…
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards capped off another Oscar season last night with the usual glitz and glamour, while another event last week addressed the greener side of Hollywood. 1R4K9852.CR2 Global Green Event Chairman Sebastian Copeland (Courtesy of Revo) Global Green USA held…
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The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival announced last Saturday the winners in its Environmental Film category, with Epicocity Project Films' SPOIL: The Fight To Save The Great Bear taking top prize. The film documents the efforts to save Canada's Great Bear Rainforest from a…
The first fight former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson ever got in was over a pigeon. Yep, some acquaintences taunted him about one of his pet pigeons and his passion for keeping the birds. He fought back when one of them killed the pigeon and, as the onetime “Baddest Man…
Carl Safina is a critically acclaimed ecologist and marine conservationist whose latest book is The View from Lazy Point. You can check out Bruce Barcott鈥檚 review in…
Donovan Hohn discusses his book Moby Duck, the science behind ocean currents, and how Sesame Street saved our childhoods. To listen to the extended interview click here, or subscribe to our iTunes…
You might have missed a few things this week, given the X Games and the upcoming Super Bowl, but there was still plenty going on in the world outside. From the backcountry slopes to the shores of Maui, here's the stuff you should click on this week. Who…
The Universal Pictures film Sanctum, a 3-D film from Executive Producer James Cameron about 15 cave divers trapped by a freak storm, opens this Friday. To help launch the film, producer Andrew Wight鈥攁 long-time collaborator of Cameron's and on whose experience the film is…
Photographer Corey Arnold has released a book about commercial fishing right on the heel's of President Obama's State of the Union joke about salmon.