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Long Read: What Really Happened During the Broad Peak Avalanche

Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, Fred Drier, reveals the magnitude and devastating impact of the recent tragedy on Broad Peak, in the Karakoram Ra

Seeing Your Adventures Get the Hollywood Treatment, with Peter Heller

When Peter Heller moved to the Rocky Mountains, he arrived ready to split his time between paddling rivers and penning stories.  What began with a shot-in-the-dark cold c

Long Read! Seagulls Terrorized Ocean City, So Ocean City Fought Back

Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, Fred Drier, is for anyone who's done battle with snack-hunting seagulls on a beach trip this summer. Writer Andre

Why You Should (And Shouldn’t) Meet Your Heroes, with Heather Hansman

When it comes to the GOATs of outdoorsy heroes, who do you think of first? Chances are it’s not  Grand Canyon rafting legend Georgie White, groundbreaking author and Adir

Long Read! In Search of Michelle Vanek: Part 2

Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, is Part 2 of one of the most read articles in Outside's history: the story of the only hiker to eve rdie while se

How to Act Like a Crime-Solving National Park Ranger, with Tracy Spiridakos

When you watch a movie or TV show in which an actor portrays a skier or biker or climber or…whatever-er, do you believe them? Whether or not they can convincingly descend

Long Read! In Search of Michelle Vanek: Part 1

Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor, Fred Drier, is Part 1 of one of the most read articles in Outside's history: the story of the only hiker ever to

Why You Should Take Your Grandma Camping, with Brad Ryan

Surely you know someone who has eaten the most nachos at apres. Maybe you have the fastest Strava segment on your local lunch loop bike ride.  But if you’re aiming for a

Long Read! Bears Keep Attacking People in Japan. We Traveled There to Find Out Why

Today's Long Read with Outside Magazine Features Editor Fred Drier, is about an issue you may have seen on social media or in the news: In Japan, bears have been attackin

Our Connection With the Ocean Goes Deeper Than You Think, with Kevin Dawson

It’s August, it’s hot, and everyone is dreaming of some beach time. But it’s not just the dog days of summer that pulls us to the ocean. It has a draw on all of us. Today

Long Read! Low Water, No Problem. We Took a Packraft Down One of the Most Remote Rivers in the West

This week's Long Read, with Outside Magazine Features Editor Fred Drier, follows Owen Clark's journey down the Lower Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon. The trip was notable

When You Think About it, Why Does Anyone Run at All? With Abby Levene

If you’re listening to this podcast, you have likely jogged before. Maybe you’ve even run a Turkey Trot or local 5K. Suffice to say, you know that running is a time-consu

Long Read! Hot Pools, Waterslides, and Cocktails: Inside the New Supersized Spas

This week's Long Read feature story, with Outside Magazine's Features Editor Fred Drier, follows writer Bill Gifford as he explores a European company called Therme, whic

It’s True, Boating the Grand Canyon Will Change Your Life, with Steve Kenney

Steve Kenny has spent nearly three decades rowing boats and has the rippling shoulders and permanent tan to prove it. But under his ZZ Top-length beard, weather-battered

Long Read! 40 Years, Zero Kills. We Spent a Weekend with Colorado's Least-Successful Elk Hunter

It's Saturday, which means it's time for another Long Read, with Outside Magazine's Features Editor, Fred Drier. This week's story is "40 Years, Zero Kills. We Spent a

LIVE! Proof That World-Feeding Chef José Andrés is an Actual Superhero

 Today, we are taking you back to the Ideas Stage of this year’s Outside Days festival in Denver. Outside’s media GM, Mary-Frances Heck (a James Beard Award winner hersel

Long Read! To Hold His Breath for 24 Minutes, a Freediver Learned to Turn Off His Brain

It's Saturday, which means it's time for another Long Read, with Outside Magazine's Features Editor, Fred Drier. This week on the podcast, we have a story titled The Ma

Don’t Worry, the Yellowstone Super Volcano Won’t Kill Us All, with Ben Bradford

There are plenty of spooky things out there to make your palms extra sweaty: brown recluse bites, a flat tire in the backcountry, what to do when folks sing “Happy Birthd

Long Read! 32 Hours, 135 Miles, and 118 Degrees: What It Takes to Crew the Hardest Race on Earth

Check out the new Long Reads, now with a real human voice! Outside Magazine Featured Editor Fred Drier is here to spin a tale about ultrarunning grit, determination, and

LIVE! Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien on How the Welsh Countryside Saved His Soul

Ed O’Brien is a songwriter and guitarist best known for his work with Radiohead, one of the most influential bands of the past three decades. What Ed isn’t known for—at l