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Jun 16, 2025

Here’s How I Stayed Healthy During the Trek to Mount Everest Base Camp

　　Part of the challenge of hiking to Mount Everest Base Camp is avoiding illness and exhaustion. Its no secret that tourists often pass gastrointestinal viruses and head colds to each other during the trek, and the extreme altitude makes the body particularly vulnerable. The altitudes you attain during the trek to Mount Everest can also cause serious (or even fatal)...

Jun 16, 2025

Getting to and From Mount Everest Is Harder than You Think

　　The first leg of travel to reach Mount Everest Base Camp is sometimes the hardest. 　　Thats what Outside correspondent Ben Ayers experienced earlier this week. In his latest Outside: Dispatches from Everest video, Ayers takes us inside the topsy turvy world of air travel in the Mount Everest region. 　　Western tourists hoping to hike to the worlds tallest mountain first fly...

Jun 16, 2025

Alex Pancoe Died on Makalu. Friends Say He Climbed With “An Incredible Sense of Purpose.”

　　On Sunday, May 4, American climber Alex Pancoe died on the slopes of Nepals 27,838-foot Makalu, the worlds fifth-highest mountain. 　　Pancoe was completing an acclimatization hike in preparation for a Makalu summit bid, and had recently returned to Camp II at 22,310 feet when he died, sources told Outside. His guide, Terray Sylvester of American climbing company Madison Mountaineering, told Outside...

Jun 16, 2025

Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke Opposes the Plan to Sell Public Lands

　　On May 7, Rep. Ryan Zinke, a Republican congressman from Montana, and Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat from New Mexico, stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building to announce a new voting bloc within the U.S. House of Representatives aimed at protecting public lands. 　　Called the Public Lands Caucus, the group includes 14 congressmen and women—seven Democrats and...

Jun 16, 2025

National Parks Face “Extreme” Cuts Under the Proposed 2026 Federal Budget

　　The National Park Service will lose almost 40 percent of its annual funding and surrender an undetermined amount of federally-run parks to state control—if the White House’s plans for 2026 come to fruition. 　　On Friday, President Donald Trump released his discretionary budget request for 2026, a 44-page document submitted to U.S. Congress that outlines how the government will allocate federal...

Jun 16, 2025

Lakeside Voyages Across the Mountain State

　　West Virginia’s famed country roads offer an open invitation. Weaving across rugged terrain and through spirited small towns to uncrowded gems and world-class outdoor adventures alike, the roads form a latticework of endless possibilities for road trip itineraries. Five customized Mountain Rides can help connect activities that range from pristine biking to productive fishing, with prime camping options all along...

Jun 16, 2025

Hipcamp Just Added 250,000 Campsites

　　I was flummoxed, frustrated, and frantic. 　　It was the spring of 2024, and like millions of Americans, I was searching for a campsite ahead of Memorial Day Weekend. I opened several dozen web browser windows on my laptop and pinged between websites like Recreation.gov, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, a regional RV resort finder, and yes, even Google Maps. If only...

Jun 16, 2025

Will Oak Flat Soon Become a 1,000-Foot-Deep Crater?

　　This is a developing story and will be updated as more details are announced. 　　When Jack Colavita, a high school English teacher in Scottsdale, Arizona, gets out of school at 3 p.m., he typically heads straight for the boulders. 　　Specifically, he drives 65 miles east to Queen Creek Canyon, drags his crashpads out to classic Oak Flat problems such as...

Jun 16, 2025

Filming in National Parks Just Got Easier—Expect More Climbing Content

　　On January 4, 2025, President Biden signed the bipartisan EXPLORE Act into U.S. law, ending a year-long panic over a proposed bolting ban in national parks. The new legislation evoked a near–unanimous celebration by the American climbing community. 　　One of the lesser-known changes to the law, however, was Section 125, the Federal Interior Land Media (“FILM”) Act, which the North...

Jun 16, 2025

Pro Climber Allison Vest Thinks Climbing Pants Can Be Better. So She Makes Her Own.

　　For Canadian professional climber Allison Vest, objects of obsession aren’t exclusively found within the realm of rock. She finds them in quiet moments at home between climbing trips, sitting at her sewing machine and losing track of time making her own clothes. Vest climbs in many of her handmade creations: bolero sets, tailored vintage North Face jeans, a gingham button-...

Jun 16, 2025

Should We All Just Submit to Our eMTB Future?

　　It was last fall when I realized that everything had changed. First there were the back-to-back high-country rides where my friends and I were the only ones on mountain bikes without motors. Then there was the eleven-mile climb where a hiker squinted at my crankset, exclaimed, “No battery!” and began to clap. There was the exchange later that day with...

Jun 16, 2025

The Total Joy and Mayhem of Being Albert Lin

　　With all the expeditions he’s been a part of, all the technology he’s developed, all the discoveries he’s covered, I’m used to Albert Lin being one of the more interesting people in a room—or even the most well-known. But walking down the street in Quito, Ecuador, I didn’t realize he was this famous. 　　We are headed to a coffee shop...

Jun 16, 2025

Start Exploring Lower Michigan’s Vibrant Corner

　　While Michigan rightfully gets its share of outdoor attention, travelers looking for adventurous outings shouldn’t look past the top of The Mitten. There, in the northwest corner of Michigan’s lower peninsula, the Petoskey Area quietly harbors a surprising amount of outdoor activities linked by a handful of lively gateway communities: Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Boyne City, Boyne Falls, Alanson, Bay Harbor,...

Jun 16, 2025

Official Rules Outside Festival Partner Ticket Giveaway

　　Outside Festival Partner Ticket Giveaway Official Rules 　　Promotion Period: 5/5/2025 to 5/23/2025 　　NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. 　　1. ELIGIBILITY: The Outside Festival Partner Ticket Giveaway (the “Promotion”) is open only to residents of the fifty United States and the...

Jun 16, 2025

This App Wants You to Touch Grass—Literally

　　We should all be spending more time outside and offline—or, in contemporary terms, touching some grass. The slang phrase emerged (somewhat ironically) on social media in recent years as a means of letting someone know they need to unplug and reconnect with the real world. Now, there’s an app for that. 　　Studies show that time spent in nature can boost...

Jun 16, 2025

Extend Your Athleticspan. Here’s How.

　　The only problem with all the active pursuits you love? You know you can’t do them forever. But what if you could do them longer and maintain a higher level of performance now and for years to come? 　　Enter Eternal. The company is reimagining health care for people who care about staying active, bringing the kind of obsessive, athlete-focused attention...

Jun 16, 2025

12 Mindfulness Activities for When You Can’t Sit Still

　　The majority of mindfulness activities are calm and quiet. But sometimes, when you’re too angry, anxious, or stressed, sitting still is the last thing you want to do. 　　“When we’re in fight-or-flight mode, our nervous system wants to do something…it’s wired for movement,” says mindfulness teacher and author Rosie Acosta. Stomping your feet, screaming in the car, punching a pillow,...

Jun 16, 2025

Can You Get the Same Gains Without Lifting to Failure?

　　Failure is a big topic in the weight lifting world these days. When you’re doing an exercise, do you need to push each set to the point that you literally can’t complete one more rep? Old-school practical wisdom says yes. More recent scientific studies have suggested that training to failure isn’t necessary, and might actually be counterproductive because it takes...

Jun 16, 2025

A 7-Move Dynamic Stretching Routine to Loosen Your Upper Body

　　If your typical gym session warm-up begins and ends with a casual five-minute jog on the treadmill, you may be short-changing the impact of your workout. To enhance your performance and prepare your body for the movements ahead, add dynamic upper body stretching to your warm-up routine. 　　Dynamic Stretching Primes Your Muscles Before a Workout During dynamic stretching, you take...

Jun 16, 2025

Are Sweatpants the New Leggings? Two Editors Debate.

　　There are a nearly infinite number of battles on the Internet, but we at Outside get fired up over some more than others. The latest? The recent debate about whether sweatpants are poised to replace leggings, ye olde Millennial staple, as peak athleisure wear. 　　It’s a tale as old as time. The up-and-coming generation on whom the nation seems to...