For this list, we found a number of actors, actresses, and musicians who actually put on the gear and scaled a rock face.

The Great Outdoors is a cult comedy classic from the 1980s about a peaceful weekend of fishing and outdoors family time at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin that gets a bit…chaotic.  In the typical style of the time, a vacation goes all kinds of wrong for the unsuspecting main characters and turns into a comedy spectacle [...]

Bear Grylls is internationally known for his books, Netflix specials and numerous television shows – but did you know what his very first time on TV was via a commercial?  After becoming one of the youngest humans ever to climb Mount Everest at age 23, Bear Grylls was recruited to take part in the “Sure [...]

When Outdoors.com last spoke with Jill Ashlock and Amber Asay, the dynamic duo or terrible twosome—depending on who you ask—had not yet seen one episode of their Netflix reality competition show Outlast, a thrilling series about lone wolf survivalists dropped into the Alaskan frontier.  Jill, a private detective from Kentucky, and Amber, a yoga instructor [...]

Night 9 on Tika gets off to a somber start. Sarah is gone, following Carolyn’s decision to join forces with the tribe’s new member, Josh, at tribal council. Yam Yam is left scrambling—and confused. “I’m happy that I survived the moment, but I’m not happy that I didn’t know how it was going to go,” [...]

The game’s on, and the tribes are in for some major shakeups — but first it’s time to get centered. Day 8 dawns bright on the Soka tribe as they take a meditative moment as a group following the loss of tech investor Claire at the previous evening’s tribal council.  Josh, the surgical podiatrist, notes [...]

“The enemy isn’t Mother Nature, it’s human nature.” That was Netflix’s spot-on tagline for its adventure competition series Outlast. Over eight episodes, 16 type-A lone wolves were sent to the Alaskan Wilderness to see who could last the longest in one of the harshest environments on planet Earth. In the end, this series didn’t come [...]

A leopard never changes its spots. So it’s inevitable that Team CHARLIE was going to see the real Jill, warts and all. Luckily for them, her true personality emerges right before they’re going to walk her across the river into their open arms. Jill is the strongest competitor left on Outlast, Netflix’s reality competition pitting [...]

“You do not fuck with ALPHA.” That’s Jill’s cuckoo response when she discovers that Javier burned his own camp down to the ground rather than let the “Demon Squad,” as he’s dubbed her and her gang, have any extra supplies after he’s gone.  Now that he’s the lone wolf on BRAVO, Javier’s got a snowball’s [...]

Would you let someone die to win $1 million? At least one team would on Outlast, Netflix’s gripping reality competition show set in the Alaskan frontier. When we last left off, ALPHA member Justin snuck across the river and stole DELTA’s sleeping bags, with the blessing of his increasingly maniacal teammates Jill and Amber. It’s [...]