We Need More Female Leaders in Olympic Sports
> On International Women’s Day last week, it became alarmingly clear (once again) that gender parity doesn’t exist at the highest levels of Olympic sports. Take track and field, for example, where the gender split among elite athletes is 50/50…
How a Murder in the Grand Canyon Changed Three Lives
In this excerpt from Annette McGivney’s new book, ‘Pure Land,’ the author investigates the brutal killing of a Japanese tourist—and things get complicated Facebook Icon Twitter Icon sms email “Is this a crisis?” The woman at the reception desk of…
Mammut Announces Safety Checks for Airbag Packs
> Early this morning, apparel and equipment brand Mammut issued a safety check for certain Generation 3.0 airbag packs produced in the winters of 2016/17 and 2017/18. The deployment cables in those packs may have been improperly installed. "Safety and quality of the…
The Jurek North Roll Is Built By and For Runners
> When a former Appalachian Trail record holder helps design a piece of ultrarunning gear, you can usually bet that it’ll be well thought-out for runners. That’s exactly the case with Ultimate Direction’s new North Roll ($80), a gear organizer…
Build Your Backpacking Kit at REI's End of Season Sale
> When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we earn an affiliate commission that helps pay for our work. Read more about Outside’s affiliate policy. Summer—prime backpacking season—is on its way. So we scoured REI's website to…
What to Eat After Every Kind of Workout
Optimize your recovery by perfecting your post-exercise meal When it comes to getting the most out of your training, eating the right foods after a workout is almost as important as the activity itself. It keeps your body from fatigue…
Giving Mountains Back Their Indigenous Names
> Last September, a 29-year-old Navajo climber named Len Necefer posted a photo of a young woman named Monserrat A Matehuala standing on the summit of Longs Peak, one of Colorado’s best known 14ers. What was significant was not that…
The New American Dream Home Is a Parking Lot
The housing crisis in the Mountain West has gotten so bad that some folks are happy to rent a clean piece of pavement Facebook Icon Twitter Icon sms email Earlier this year, Josef and Ben Sipiorski had a big idea…
GoPro Goes After Budget-Minded Customers (Again)
> When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we earn an affiliate commission that helps pay for our work. Read more about Outside’s affiliate policy. On Thursday, GoPro launched a new entry-level action camera called simply…
A Woman Explorer Disappeared in 1939. I Followed Her.
> A year before our wedding, my fiancé and I decided we needed to get out of D.C. Leaving would mean saying goodbye to nearly everyone we knew, which was, at least to me, exactly the point. Wanting to flee,…