Kayaking's Elite Return to India at the Malabar River Festival
During the week of July 18th to 22nd, the Malabar River Festival returned to Kerala, India with one of the biggest cash prizes in whitewater kayaking in the world.
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Meet The World Class Academy, the School Raising the World's Best Outdoor Athletes
World Class Academy is a fully accredited private high school. Though it is based out of White Salmon, Washington, the students are rarely there. The school has three different programs for three different adventure sports- climbing, kayaking, and kite boarding.
Why We Need to Separate Friluftsliv from Adventure
The Scandinavian philosophy of friluftsliv focuses on enlightenment through spiritual oneness with nature. The contemporary context, however, misleads us into believing that performing adventure sports in nature is a means to achieve friluftsliv. To be honest, it really isn't.
Running the High Road: The Advent of Distance Running in Ladakh
Very few places on Earth can produce athletes with the physical capacity of Ladakhis. Coupled with great ambition, they hold unrivalled potential. There is something brewing in the North of India.
Sidharth Singh is a documentary filmmaker and sports broadcaster. This article compliments Sidharth's film about Ladakhi athletes,
One Indian Woman's Climbing Journey: Battling Social Stereotypes
For five years, Prerna Dangi perfected her climbing, whilst dealing with frequent issues of body image and gender bias in India.
The Power of Community: A Motorcycle Journey from India to Scotland
In January 2017, Ben and Prashant left behind comfortable lives to explore a project-driven motorcycle journey of community service and adventure - across 60,000 km and 20 countries.
With a strong vision of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – “The whole world is one family” – Ben and Prashant help projects in education, housing,
The Mountain Monks of Montserrat - Exploring History, Legends, and Great Climbing
Apoorva Prasad, The Outdoor Journal Editor-in-Chief, recounts a climbing trip to Montserrat in 2009, where he followed in the footsteps of the mountain monks of Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey.
A small boy scrambled up the rough rocks, yanking at tough brown shrubs and grabbing the pebbled conglomerate of the