Outside Magazine - June/July 2020

In this issue

Journeys

OVER - SHARED

Are social media and selfie culture killing the outdoors? Nah, but as a visit to some heavily Instagrammed places reveals, they’re challenging our notions about whether there’s a right way to appreciate nature—and who gets to do it.

10+ mins

THE OBJECT IN MOTION

As the world tries to contain the spread of COVID-19, travel seems like a faraway dream. But Ian Frazier reminds us that there’s no more promising feeling than the start of a journey.

9 mins

FIRE AND FURY

Last December, around 100 tourists set out for New Zealand’s White Island, where an active volcano has attracted hundreds of thousands of vacationers since the early 1990s. It was supposed to be a routine six-hour tour, including the highlight: a quick hike into the island’s otherworldly caldera. Then the volcano exploded. ALEX PERRY reports on an epic story of heroism, tragedy, and survival — one that uncovers troubling questions about the risks we’re willing to take when lives hang in the balance.

10+ mins

MOBY AND ME

Sperm whales are extraordinarily intelligent animals with deep family traditions and the ability to communicate across oceans with sonic clicks. But when Rowan Jacobsen had a close encounter with one in the Caribbean, he saw a creature far stranger than he’d ever imagined.

10+ mins

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Outside Magazine Description:

Outside covers the exciting, active lifestyle of today's man.˜ Each month readers share the adventure, with travel reporting and advice available nowhere else, inspiring profiles, breathtaking photography, epic news from the frontiers of exploration and risk, rock-solid advice on gear, health and fitness and an addictive quotient of daring and mind-blowing surprises. Outside is a 2013 winner of the National Magazine award for General Excellence and is a 5 time winner of this prestigious honor.