Adventure
Doctors Argue Against Mandatory Bike Helmet Laws
A mandatory bike helmet law is under consideration in British Parliament, and two physicians are arguing against the idea...
A good feeling
Denison von Maur adds another log to the wood stove, looks up and smiles. He’s in his element, high up in the Beaverhead mountains, the wind blasting across the ridge as a snow squall spits flakes across the windows of the remote log cabin he built by hand. The fire ...
Many close calls later
"It was a miracle really, that neither of us were killed,” says Simon Yates. “We were in this really narrow couloir on Makron Chhish, myself and another guy, when just a massive amount of rockfall started coming down...
Now you see it, now you don’t
John Birchak’s eyes well with tears as he speaks about his first days in Tibet — three days in the sacred city of Lhasa, often spent watching Buddhist devotees walk wellworn paths around and around and around monasteries on Barkhor Street...
All the way to the top
As he neared the South Summit of Everest, just over 28,700 feet above sea level, Denver-based mountaineer Chris Bombardier was thoroughly worked.
“I was so...
Telluride Festival: Beer, blues and autumn colors
If you're feeling the fall blues, your cure just might include heading to Telluride this weekend for the 16th Annual Telluride Blues and Brews Festival. Now an autumnal classic, the festival features three days packed with music and an afternoon dedicated to tasting ...
BIFF 2013: Find, save, copy, paste
Imagine a trove of knowledge as vast and extensive as the famous Library of Alexandria, heralded for its archives of literature from antiquity and destroyed in the first centuries of the Common Era — burned, in the best of the legends about its destruction, in a fire...
Glide or Die
Becoming one of the most recognized professional climbers in the U.S. takes an affinity for the unknown.
You might say that’s one of Cedar Wright’s...
A six-legged team
The day the stay-at-home policies were announced in Boulder, Michael Stone was at Whole Foods. He had his new 2-year-old yellow lab, Geo, with...
Shouldn’t Be Alive
Flip through the channels of cable television on any given night, and you’ll probably find a survival-themed reality TV show. I Shouldn’t Be Alive features dramatizations of people who survived injuries or other mishaps in the wilderness. Survivorman follows the ...
Try your hand at a number of winter sports from Boulder...
Eric Bader’s phone starts to ring more around this time of...
