Is This the Most Bad Ass Job in the Outdoors? The NPS is Hiring for a High-Altitude Park Ranger
The National Park Service is hiring high-altitude park rangers to patrol the highest peak in North America.
The National Park Service is hiring high-altitude park rangers to patrol the highest peak in North America.
If you’re a fan of skiing, you don’t have to let the summer months bring you down. Some ski resorts are offering summer skiing.
You can head to California to hit the slopes. Mammoth Mountain is extending its ski season through Sunday, August 6.
Find out five interesting facts about Ueli Steck, one of the most famous and accomplished Swiss mountaineering alpinists in the world.
In the eighth and final episode of I Survived Bear Grylls, Season 2, the survivalist and toughest man on the planet is making sure whoever wins his contest really puts in the work to earn the $10,000 grand prize. “We’re about to find out if you’re as tough as you think you are,” Bear tells [...]
After decades of research into the ways polar bears stay warm in the wild, scientists have developed a new textile that could revolutionize the apparel that keeps us warm outside. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst say that their new two-layer fabric mimics polar bear skin and fur to make clothing that keeps [...]
In a harrowing video captured in Washington last week, a skier narrowly a snowboarder’s life after the man fell head-first into a tree well. The snowboarder was buried upside-down in deep snow and slowly suffocating when the skier, Francis Zuber, arrived at the scene. At the time, Zuber was cashing in on a recent powder [...]
Earlier this month, Idaho sledder Jeremiah Bigelow captured heart-stopping footage of a moose charging his brother on a snowmobile. According to Bigelow’s Instagram post, the two were riding along the trail when a moose wandered out of the woods and stepped between them. Bigelow, who was several yards behind his brother with his son and [...]
As temperatures get warmer around the country, young skiers and boarders dread closing day at their local ski resort. Months of dry-land training, weight lifting and seeing the skis or board collect dust can bring the summer blues for powder hounds of any age. Thankfully around the U.S. and Canada, summer-on-snow ski camps offer young [...]
Bear Grylls has survived some of the planet’s most extreme temperatures and he doesn’t shy away from icy situations—just recently, he was immersing himself in the waters of a frozen lake in Wyoming while on location for Running Wild. In order to survive in these temperatures, Bear knows how to recognize and deal with hypothermia [...]