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No Safety In Numbers

MOUNT EVEREST IS INCREASINGLY DEFINED BY BUDGET GUIDING COMPANIES—AND MORE CROWDING THAN EVER

Patch Job

NOSO’S KELLI JONES IS BUILDING AN OUTDOOR BUSINESS WHILE REDUCING WASTE, ONE SCRAP OF NYLON AT A TIME

The Sleep of Your Dreams

A MORE RESTFUL NIGHT IS JUST A WIRELESS SNORE-NEUTRALIZING SOUNDSCAPE GENERATOR AWAY

Summer Sherlocks

The Season’s Best Headlamp Reads? Take Your Pick From Several Mystery Series Set in the Wild.

Uphill. Downhill. I Like That.

Clever, goofy, charismatic, and fast, two-time world champion Peter Sagan may never win the Tour de France (he's not a climber) but he just might be the star who saves bike racing. BILL GIFFORD hung out with the Slovakian powerhouse in his spiritual home of Southern California and met a kid-on-wheels whose sense of fun has given the sport a much needed boost.

Charging Cross-Country

Electric Cars Are the Future for Commuters,but Can They Go the Extra Mile on a Road Trip?

Water Works

The Best Brewers Know: Good Beer Starts at the Source

Marianne Vos

For Outside's 40th anniversary, we're featuring II people who have changed our world. This month, the winning est female cyclist of all time. 

24 Hours In San Diego

The past four decades have transformed this sunny city of 1.4 million from a lonely military hub into one of the world’s greatest coastal playgrounds. Beyond the 25 miles of beautiful beaches and killer surf, visitors can peruse an eclectic mix of colorful neighborhoods, hip eateries, and more than 114 craft breweries and brewpubs. Here’s how to make time for sand, sun, and the freshest fish tacos you’ve ever tasted.

Instant Karma

Upscale Meditation Studios Are Bringing Mindfulness to the Masses. Are They Also Diluting the Practice?

The Glass Podium

Former Pro Cyclist Kathryn Bertine Launched a Nonprofit to Give Female Riders a Will It Make a Difference?

Laird Hamilton

For Outside's 40th Anniversary.We're featuring II people who changed our world. This month, the consummate waterman.

They Like To Watch

Why Do Millions of People Stream Soft-core Adventure B-roll on Youtube?

American Hustle

From Breeding Horses for a Drug Kingpin to Growing Nebraska Soybeans, Two New Nonfiction Books Look at Vastly Different Ways of Making Ends Meet

Tastes Like Rocket Fuel

BUT DOES IT ACT LIKE IT? WITH THE ARRIVAL OF A LONG-RUMORED KETONE SUPERDRINK, ENDURANCE ATHLETES WANT TO KNOW

Make Yourself Useful

Former pro surfer Jon Rose was riding waves in Sumatra when the 2009 earthquake hit, and he spent the next decade providing clean water in remote disaster zones. Last fall his Waves for Water crew was in Saint Croix when Hurricane Maria struck, so the team did what came naturally: got to work.

24 Hour Fitness

Every Day, We’re Confronted With a Thousand Choices That Can Make or Break Our Health: Cream and Sugar? Carpool? Walking Meeting? Check Instagram? Hiit or Long and Slow? One More Beer? But Decision Fatigue Can Also Increase Stress and Zap Motivation. So We Enlisted Olympic Decathlon Champion Ashton Eaton (and a Few of the Best and Brightest Researchers in the Country) to Design the Perfect Day.