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Alex Honnold on Free Soloing Mexico’s 2,500-Foot El Sendero Luminoso
We just heard back from Alex Honnold, who has been busy in Patagonia pulling off an epic feat of alpinism with Tommy Caldwell—a complete traverse of the Fitzroy Massif in five days. The Internet...
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Video: Inspiring a New Generation of Adventurers
Adventure educators Amy and Dave Freeman have built their lives around using technology to bring outdoor adventure into the classroom through their organization Wilderness Classroom. The Minnesotan...
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Diana Nyad: From Swimming with Sharks to Dancing with the Stars
Photograph courtesy Diana Nyad Diana Nyad was recently named an Adventurer of the Year for becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. She is currently making turns on the television show...
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Teen Climber Matt Moniz on Attempting an 8,000-Meter Everest Triple Link Up
Mount Everest, as seen at sunrise from the Lhotse couloir; Photograph by Mike Moniz Climber Matt Moniz, with his dad Mike, climbed to all the highest points in the 50 states in 43 days, a feat which...
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Microadventures Are Everywhere
Hiking Cuillin Ridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland; Photograph by Alastair Humphreys Alastair Humphreys is one of our Adventurers of the Year. Follow his current Talisker Storm Adventure on Scotland’s Isle...
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Paddling the “River of Doubt” 100 Years After Roosevelt
Dave Freeman and Paul Schurke paddling the Rio Roosevelt; Photograph by Dave Freeman Dave Freeman and his wife Amy are two of our Adventurers of the Year. Read their profile here. A hundred years ago,...
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Video: Snowboarder Jeremy Jones Goes Higher – World Premiere 9/6
On Saturday, legendary snowboarder and Adventurer of the Year Jeremy Jones will premiere Higher: The Final Chapter on his home turf in Squaw Valley, California. Following up on his previous films...
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Paddle to DC: A 2,000-Mile Journey by Water to Celebrate and Protect the...
Dave and Amy Freeman portage Sig, their signature canoe, around rapids on the Kawishiwi River in Northern Minnesota during the first few miles of their 2,000 mile journey from the Boundary Waters Canoe...
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Paddle to DC: Sailing 500 Miles Across Lake Superior
The Freemans sailing past Palisade Head on north shore of Lake Superior during their journey by water from the Boundary Waters to Washington DC. Photo by: Nate Ptacek @arborealis A 20-knot tailwind...
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Paddle to DC: Descending the Mattawa, a River to Remember
Dave and Amy Freeman below Paresseux Falls on the Mattawa River in Northern Ontario. Long adventures usually contain a few memories or places that stick with us long after the sore muscles and bumps...
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Paddle to DC: Pushed to Exhaustion on the Hudson River
Amy Freeman sets up the tent in the dark along the Hudson River. Photo by Dave Freeman @FreemanExplore Long journeys tend to have a few moments that stand out. Often they are the most miserable points....
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Update: Sky Runner Kilian Jornet to Attempt Aconcagua Speed Record
Kilian Jornet training in Colorado’s San Juan mountains before setting a new course record on the Hardrock 100 in July 2014. Photograph courtesy Kilian Jornet Over the past decade we have celebrated...
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Kilian Jornet Sets New Ascent-Descent Speed Record on Argentina’s Aconcagua
Kilian Jornet, our 2014 People’s Choice Adventurer of Year, just set a new ascent-descent record on Aconcagua (22,837 feet or 6,902 meters), the Western Hemisphere’s highest peak, as part of his...
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Update: Biking-Riding Activist Shannon Galpin
Photograph by Deni Bechard See more updates and photos in our Where Are They Now gallery. Over the last ten years we’ve celebrated a hundred adventurers—some of the world’s best and brightest. We...
View ArticleClimbers Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson Reach Midpoint on the World’s Hardest...
Oh snap. The hardest pitch got sent by both of us tonight. I might be in a little shock right now. The route is taking a toll on our fingertips as we are now both climbing with taped up fingertips,...
View ArticleVideo: Yosemite Climber Tommy Caldwell on the History of the Dawn Wall
As we eagerly watch and wait to see what happens on the upper reaches of El Capitan as Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson work through their attempt to make the first free ascent of the Dawn Wall,...
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For a Climber on El Cap, a Dropped iPhone is Particularly Painful
Climber Tommy Caldwell shares his experience on El Capitan’s Dawn Wall route from high above Yosemite Valley with regular posts to social media sites via his iPhone—which he later dropped 1,500 feet;...
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Join our Live Video Chat with the World’s Top Adventurers – 1/30 –...
Find out what it takes to chase big adventure dreams in our live Google+ Hangout on Friday, January 30, at 1 p.m. EST. Our 2015 Adventurers of the Year have challenged boundaries, redefined what’s...
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One Year Later, Filmmakers Find Dam Removal Has Captured the Public’s...
The former Elwa Dam on the Elwha River looms overhead as DamNation producer and underwater photographer Matt Stoecker prepares to film Chinook salmon trapped below the impassable wall of concrete in a...
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Atlantic Kayaker Wins 2015 People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year
Updated 2-17-2015 “If 67 years young can do it, you can do it, too.” — Aleksander Doba, who made the longest open-water solo kayak crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in history. The votes have been...
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