Adventure

On March 26, bestselling indie-author Scott Stillman’s second book, Nature’s Silent Message — a collection of introspective essays about his mostly-solo backpacking adventures across...

Part-time Boulder resident David Lesh is stoked. He’s skiing in Switzerland, and he’s landed at Vals, in the Graub%uFFFDnden region, with a meter of new snow on the ground and more on the way. He’s plunging through the trees, skiing faster than possible and ...

Man...

I wish they had that when I was in school...

This is a story about snowboarding. A story about skateboarding and concrete and chairlift rides. A story about halfpipes and rail jams and powder...

Eighth-grade field trips are not usually a cause of ethical dilemmas. But this year at Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette, the itinerary was questioned by 13-year-old student Phoebe Goldstein. Every spring the school offers a variety of educational trips to both ...

The race was about to start, and all Laura Knoblach could think about was the fact that the swim she was about to embark...

In a small African village off the coast of Senegal, where medical care and supplies are scarce and disease and infection abundant, death is an all-too-familiar event...

A recent partnership between CU, Western Colorado University and Blister takes outdoor gear testing to a technical new level

There’s climbing all the Colorado 14ers — which typically takes a few years and culminates in the right to wear an “I climbed all...

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...

For Lakpa Rita Sherpa, there was no question. After five of his men died on the side of Everest in the avalanche that swept down its slopes on April 18, he had two things to do — take the body of a friend home, and then come back to Base Camp to tell his team that ...