A German mountain climber fell into a glacier crack and survived for seven days before rescuers pulled him out alive. The 70-year-old was climbing solo when he fell into the crack on Schrankogel, a mountain in the Stubai Alps in Tyrol, Austria. He was rescued when passing climbers heard shouts for help ushering from 20…
Last time we checked in with the Arctic Row team they had been waiting out a massive Arctic Storm in Elson lagoon off the shore of Barrow, Alaska. That was back on August 9. They have since left Elson, Lagoon and continued on their southerly journey, rowing for four days before they were forced to…
As mountaineering has become more popular and more people are trying to tackle the world’s biggest peaks, the sport has claimed more lives than ever in recent decades. Some mountains, however, are more deadly than others. In order to find the deadliest mountains on earth, we looked at the mountains that are above 8,000 meters….
Outside Online has compiled a list of the top 25 colleges for students who want to maximize their time outdoors. Being that Outside is one of the foremost publications on matters of outdoor adventure, a list from them is pretty much the gold standard. Not to mention that they created a scoring key that covered…
On July 25, the Red Bull Stratos team sent Felix Baumgartner up to the edge of space where he jumped and free-fell from the second-highest distance ever recorded in history: 97,145.7 ft. The word on that July day was that Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team would return in August to conquer the highest skydive…
Scott Jurek has partnered with Himalayan Cataract Project and imagine1day to lead a 10-day running tour in Ethiopia. Jurek, who wrote the popular book Eat and Run and is something of an ultrarunner-celebrity, set up the trip for 14 runners to come and train with him in Ethiopia next winter from Feb. 22 to March…
The Adidas Rockstars bouldering competition came to a close on August 11, and Alex Puccio and Sean McColl were the champions in the women’s and men’s events respectively. More that 70 climbers from around the world turned out for the tournament, which was in Stuttgart, Germany. The women’s final boiled down to Puccio and Akiyo…
A ship that Captain Robert Falcon Scott took on an expedition to Antarctica was found yesterday off the coast of Greenland, 100 years after it disappeared. The SS Terra Nova was found by the Schmidt Ocean Institute as they were testing equipment on their own ships. The Terra Nova was constructed in Dundee in 1884….
In the upcoming issue of Outer Edge, an exciting story is coming out about three brothers who went mountain biking in Oman, a country just east of Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. The Consulate of Oman has been on a recent push to expand tourism in the fabled and prosperous country. And a number of…
Several years ago the guys from Motiv Fishing hatched a plan to travel through the bush, bayou, and riparian areas of South America in pursuit of fresh new fly-fishing grounds. That idea spawned Geofish, an adventure film that follows the four fishermen on their expedition. See the Geofish trailer here. Starting in the Northwestern United…
