Rocky Mountain National Park is the fourth most popular U.S. National Park. Here are five facts that will make you want to visit.

Before Bear Grylls could teach celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Rita Ora, and Benedict Cumberbatch how to survive in the wild (see Running Wild), he had a lot of practice surviving on his own in many difficult places on the planet.  Despite many of his adventures being planned to some degree for TV, Bear had a [...]

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 [...]