The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.
- John Muir
From The Journal...
The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.
- John Muir
World champion free-diver Pierre Frolla sinks without air to depths unreachable by most scuba divers. One day he nearly didn't make it back to the surface.
Few in the passionate throng who anticipate the annual Ironman race realize how close the original idea for the race was to being left for dead. This is the story of Ironman’s unlikely genesis.
Galvanised by their 6,000-meter ascent, a party of climbers disregard the most basic safety rule. The rescue worker is well reputed, but up there, life hangs by a thread.
All four fingers on my left hand squeeze the clutch as the heel of my right boot kicks the gearshift into first.
A mountain biker, his buddies, and some of the best singletrack trails in Europe.
Road biking in and around NYC has it all: Urban adventure, quality pavement, non-yahoo drivers and bucolic surroundings. And good muffins.
Is this the bouldering revolution we’ve all been waiting for? The first generation of Indian climbing bums leads the charge. Here are a few of their stories.
This story originally featured in a print issue of the Outdoor Journal.
