She’s five-foot-nothing and sounds like Minnie Mouse with an accent, but no one is pushing whitewater kayaking harder than 27-year-old Nouria Newman. A former world champion with the French kayak team, Newman traded the sheltered world of slalom racing for the freedom of expedition paddling, and promptly became the first woman (and fifth paddler ever) … Read more
Cory Richards Plans a New Route on Everest and It’s Bold and Gnarly With the curtain about to rise on the spring Himalayan climbing season, Cory Richards dropped a bombshell, announcing plans to attempt a new route on Everest, in alpine style and without supplemental oxygen. As you’d expect from the National Geographic photographer who … Read more
Raising kids to love the outdoors can be a tricky business. Most of us, if we’re honest, will admit that half the time we don’t have a clue what we’re doing. Sometimes we wonder whether we should be doing it at all. That’s especially true at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, when you’ve blown … Read more
A dramatic rescue mission is in the offing on Nanga Parbat, where alpinists Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard are overdue and may be stranded above 6,300 meters (20,670 ft) on the mountain. The duo is attempting a winter ascent of the demanding Mummery Ridge route on the world’s ninth-highest mountain. Pakistani climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara … Read more
The following is excerpted from Dylan Tomine’s wonderful new book, Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman. We ran a different excerpt in a recent print issue of AJ, and wanted to share some with our digital readers too. Tomine has a wonderfully self-aware, bordering of self-effacing, writing style, making the very … Read more
Well, one climber anyway. But the mood evoked by this short film is universal to anyone who loves pushing their boundaries outside.
The Nomadix original towel looks like cotton and feels like cotton, but it’s made of polyester—90 percent post-consumer recycled polyester—which means it dries exceptionally fast and rolls into a burrito the size of a Nalgene bottle. It absorbs water quickly, sand doesn’t cling to it, and at 72 by 30 inches there’s enough coverage for … Read more
Hanging plants? Full-sized kitchen? This would rent for $4k/month in my neck of the woods.
If you love camp coffee (and of course you do) or any coffee really, you should understand the threats coffee growers are dealing with. But, there is plenty of hope.
I’m planning a solo backpacking trip next month and in pulling out my topos to decide on a route, I came across a note I wrote on the Hoover Wilderness topo that marked a trail junction I missed in this story below. It’s a nice little memory of a lower-case “a” adventure in the backcountry … Read more