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Chernobyl power plant from a distance

Chernobyl Mold Has Learned To Eat Radiation

With humans largely out of the picture, wildlife has...
A collage of book covers

2025 National Outdoor Book Award Winners Announced

The National Outdoor Book Awards have announced their 2025...
Sasha DiGiulian climbing on the Platinum Wall.

First Female Free Ascent of El Capitan’s Platinum Wall

On November 26, Sasha DiGiulian of the U.S. did...
Three female climbers with helmets and sunglases, with rocky spire rising from the snow behind.

French Women Take on the Indian Himalaya

In October, Lise Billon and Maud Vanpoulle led a...
oval shaped tunnel

Erdstall Tunnels: Rural Europe’s Unexplained Giant Wormholes

Walking along the boundaries of her farm in the...
climbers beside a mountain lake

Manaslu Southwest Face: The Climbers Describe their New Route

Methodical, realistic, and driven, Andrei Vasiliev of Russia has...
Traditional Marshallese canoe

Understanding How Marshall Islanders Find Their Way at Sea

This past summer, neuroscientists, anthropologists, philosophers, oceanographers, and Marshall...
Three images from eyewitnesses showing the bright green meteor fragment in the sky

Green Fireball Explodes Above Great Lakes

A week ago, a bright green fireball shot across...
Catalina Unwin, Angelina Di Prinzio, and Paloma Farkas on the summit of Cerro Steffen.

Adventure Links of the Week

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix...
A mountainside

Weekend Warm-Up: The Longest Ridgeline

The so-called "longest ridgeline" in Europe runs along the...
Kylies Beach, Australia.

Woman Killed and Man Injured in Australian Shark Attack

On November 27, a shark killed a woman in...
Maciej Berbeka on the summit of Manaslu, during the peak's first winter ascent.

Winter 8,000m Expeditions in Nepal: Many Try, Few Succeed

From the 1980s to the early 2000s, winter 8,000m...
A woman pulling a sled in the Antarctic

Antarctic Roundup 2025-26: South Pole Speed Attempt Begins This Weekend

Things are heating up in the icy south, and...
A climber on crampons and iceaxes on a frosted granite face in Scotland.

Three New Routes in a Week in Scotland

Local climbers have begun to enjoy winter in the...
Geoffrey Winthrop Young with beret and pipe

Geoffrey Winthrop Young: The Man Who Changed British Climbing

Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876-1958), British climber, poet, and author...
pile of gold bars juxtaposed beside b/w portrait of WWII Japanese officer

Tales of Missing War Treasures, Part III: Yamashita’s Gold

General Tomoyuki Yamashita, also known as the Tiger of...
aerial view of a green mountainside and visible crater

Massive, Recent Impact Crater Found in China

Researchers have just discovered a giant crater 900m in...
Compilation of routes and photos on a 3D map of Nanga Parbat.

New Routes, Partial New Routes, and Variations: What’s the Difference?

Opening a new route is every climber's dream, but...
View of Yosemite Valley, in Yosemite National Park.

U.S. to Charge Foreign Visitors $100 Extra at Top National Parks

Beginning in 2026, foreign visitors to popular American national...
gold bars

Tales of Missing War Treasures, Part II: Lost Civil War Gold

In wartime, even losing soldiers and politicians always make...
A mountain overlooking a lake

Guide and Client Die In Fall on Aoraki Mount Cook

Two climbers have died on New Zealand's highest mountain,...
A climber on a huge, flat ice plain with mountains in background at sunset.

Rare Good Weather on the Patagonian Ice Field Leads to a Double Ascent

The Southern Patagonian Ice Field's vicious weather offers climbers...
General Rommel looking at a map with others

Tales of Missing War Treasures, Part I: Rommel’s Gold

In wartime, even losing soldiers and politicians always make...
The International Space Station.

Moss Survives Nine Months in Space

Mosses are some of the hardiest plants on Earth....