I was following my teenage sons down the cobblestone streets of Lucerne, Switzerland’s Old Town last month when a store ...

On April 5, 2012, 65-year-old Bill Ott set out on a three-week, solo thru-hike of a remote area of the Grand Canyon. The Oregon man was in search of thousand-year-old rock panels on the Hualapai ...

Waist-deep in a cypress swamp is not an ideal place for second-guessing. Nor, at least for most sober people, is it the place to dangle one’s arm into murky holes and hope something large inside takes ...

Vincent Bouillard, a product designer for shoe brand Hoka, is quietly crushing the fields at the world’s top ultramarathons.

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Well, Outside has learned that much of the story—specifically the sizable search and rescue bill—is fake. Chelsea McCurdy, the operator of a group called Hobbit Hikers, which had organized the hike ...

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We tested tons of options to find the real difference between a $140 sleeping pad and a $400 camping mattress.

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Minnesota’s Boundary Waters have played an integral role in writer Stephanie Pearson’s life. Pearson recently had to flee the ...

A dramatic encounter at Bridge Bay Campground left a grandfather seriously injured and serves as a stark reminder that during ...