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Stop Telling Women Not to Go Into the Backcountry Alone
“OH SHIT,” I wrote in my journal. “All the light was just sucked out of the sky. The woods are…
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It’s Pretty Cool Being an Adult and a Beginner
Being a beginner sucks. There’s nothing worse. If you’ve managed to survive to adulthood while preserving even the tiniest, most…
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The Wisdom of Chouinard: An Excerpt from ‘Some Stories’
Just north of Santa Barbara lies a little surfing Shangri-La. It’s the private Hollister Ranch, 14 miles of pristine Southern…
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Buzz Holmstrom, First to Solo Row the Grand Canyon
In November 1937, Haldane “Buzz” Holmstrom sat in the sand below Lava Cliff, the last substantial rapid in Grand…
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Roald Amundsen Had to Make Do With Being First to South Pole
Roald Amundsen There’s no evidence of this, but surely there must have been a saying among the great polar explorers…
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Solo Paddler Audrey Sutherland Did the Most Important Things
The first time Audrey Sutherland explored the rugged northeast coast of Moloka’i, she swam the 20-mile stretch. Forty-one years old,…
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Matthew Henson, Peary’s Aide, Was 100% Polar Explorer Badass
As steam and rail shrunk the globe at the turn of the twentieth century, the race was on to claim…
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Surfer Mark Foo Died Doing What He Loved, Which He Thought No Great Tragedy
Tragedy seems easier to digest the further away it is in the past, but this doesn’t seem to be the…
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Douglas Mawson, Antarctic Explorer, Refused to Die Out on the Ice
Chris Turney is the author of 1912: The Year The World Discovered Antarctica, a book about the five major expeditions…
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Ageless Rock Climbing Legend Marcel Rémy Kept Climbing at 99
Swiss alpinist Marcel Rémy celebrated his 99th birthday last February at his local rock gym, climbing to the 50-foot rafters…
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Poppa Neutrino Jazzed His Way Across the Atlantic on a Raft Made of Trash
The first thing you should know about Poppa Neutrino is that he once sailed from Maine to Ireland on a…
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One-Eyed Wiley Post Broke Every Flight Record He Could Find
He flew planes while having only one eye. He set a record for fastest flight across the globe with a…
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Claude Kogan Led The First All-Female Team To Test A Himalayan Giant
In September 1959 a five-foot whisper of a woman, the French swimwear designer and alpinist Claude Kogan, set out for…
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Alexander Von Humboldt, The Last Person Who Knew It All
In June 1802, midway through his five-year scientific exploration of Spanish America, Alexander von Humboldt set out to climb Chimborazo,…
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The Nutso 1910 Attempt to Plant a Flag on Denali’s Summit—In Winter
The claim was an affront to Alaska and the frontier spirit. The mere idea that a certain Dr. Frederick Cook—of…
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Eric Shipton’s Style and Whims Shaped Mountaineering History
In 1931, no one had climbed higher than Eric Shipton, a British coffee planter who cut his climbing teeth in…
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Dervla Murphy, Lived, Traveled, and Wrote Full Tilt
Tired of being confused for a man and for the husband of her 20-something daughter she was traveling with throughout…
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Norman Baker Steered Reed Rafts Clear Across the Atlantic—Twice
There’s an almost irresistible romance to it. Thor Heyerdahl’s theory that the fantastic civilizations and architectural wonders of Central and…
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Shane McConkey Was More More than Just a Skier
“We learned so much from that one, silly boy.” Sherry McConkey delivers the hammer line at the close of McConkey,…
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An Ode to the Pulaski, the Hero’s Tool
The Pulaski is not an elegant object—half axe, half mattock—it chops and cleaves, it excavates and grubs. It is, above…
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Hilary Lister Pulled Off Mindblowing Sailing Feats, Quadriplegia Be Damned
It is an interesting thing. For some, their biggest physical accomplishments in life, their grandest adventures, come after only immense…
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Meet the Boundary-Smashing Climber Called The ‘Queen of The North Faces’
Born in 1908, Louise “Loulou” Boulaz reached her prime in the golden age of Swiss mountaineering, a time and place…
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The Poignant Beauty of Camping With Kids
Parental aspirations are all too often dashed on the shoals of reality, and mine were no different. We would be…
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An Ode to My Chacos
I was dating this guy and we’d just gotten a permit to float the Rogue River in Oregon with a…
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Conservation Legend Celia Hunter on Alaskan Development: To Hell With That
To those with restless, wandering souls, the promise of a frontier, a hazy zone marking the edge of the known…
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The 20 Best Bad Reviews of National Parks on Yelp
Adventure Journal has more than 3,000 stories in our archive, most of which are evergreen. We like to put our…
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Siberia Is Vast, Melancholic, and Hilarious In This Masterpiece Book
Ian Frazier is a national treasure. He’s maybe best known as a longtime New Yorker columnist and features writer, covering…
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A Few Thoughts on Sleeping Alone in Your Car
I bought my car, a teenage Subaru with three hubcaps and two working windows, because I knew I could stretch…
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Climbing Legend Charlie Porter Climbed Everything and Said Nothing
In a career full of superhuman stories, Charlie Porter’s 1975 climb on Baffin Island’s Mt. Asgard stands out: He took…
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Your Hydration Bladder Is Probably Gross—Here’s How to Fix That
Wash your hydration bladder. If not right now, tonight. If not tonight, tomorrow. If not tomorrow, well, how’s your immune…
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We Need a Guidebook for Camping Etiquette
On a camping trip in southern Utah, my brother, a friend, and I pulled up late one night to a flat,…
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Opinion: It’s Time to Stop Building Cairns
Stones: We’ve built pyramids and castles with them and painstakingly cleared them out of farm fields, using them to build…
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How I Finally Got Rid of Plantar Fasciitis Once and For All
I went for a trail run yesterday and logged almost two hours through the tall grass, wildflowers, and absurdly steep…
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Can You Be Happy Dating Someone Who Isn’t Adventurous?
I’ve always pictured myself with a partner who wants to explore the world with me, that stereotypical romantic vision of…
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Dick Proenneke Lived Alone in Alaska For 30 Years—And Thrived
For thirty years, Dick Proenneke lived alone in the Alaskan wilderness. He lived in a cabin he built with his…
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You Don’t Have To Justify Adventure
History’s greatest ocean rowing career started with a classified ad. It was 1972 and Peter Bird was selling velvet paintings door-to-door,…