Take a ride on a snowcat at Beaver Creek in Colorado. They roll up and down the steeps using a winch cat, grooming the runs most people wish they’d leave alone. But don’t worry too much, these things are working with artificial snow. via Huffington Post

It’s no 127 hours, but at least these hikers had an emergency beacon close at hand. A guy from Vermont was trapped in a sandy area in Southeast Utah by the Dirty Devil River. More remarkable is that he tried to free himself for 13 hours and even worked with some other hikers who found [ more... ]

Well, almost now. Beginning tomorrow you can go online to reserve your seat on the bus that ferries you into the center of Denali. It’s almost too easy to imagine myself buying a flight to Denali, renting a car, and then finding out that I was supposed to get my bus seat six months earlier. [ more... ]

Kiwi mountaineer Mark Inglis lost the lower parts of both legs after a climb on Mt. Cook, in 1982, and later Inglis devoted himself to helping amputees, successfully raised awareness for their cause with climbs on Cho Oyu and Everest. He became the first double amputee to summit Everest in 2006, but on summit day [ more... ]

Tommy Caldwell’s epic Dawn Wall project has been in the works for years. This season he stayed on the wall for 26 days straight, trying to work his way through the nearly impossible climb. He’s filed several posts for Patagonia. His project has gained attention not only for its difficulty, but also for the on-the-rock [ more... ]

They say the best camera is the one that’s with you, and with the new iPhone camera shooting at a whopping 8-megapixels, it’s also better than a lot of point-and-shoots or old DSLRs. The ace team from Camp 4 Collective shot this music video entirely on a camera phone. Why? I’m not sure since they have loads of much cooler camera gear, but they sat down with National Geographic Adventure to talk iPhone camera tips. (Actually I just watched most of the music video. Shooting it on a phone couldn’t hurt.)

Baywatch fiction becomes reality. No, not the augmented “character development,” the episode in which a surfboard belonging to a character named Jimmy Slade (played by Kelly Slater) is used to smuggle. Now three Italian fans of Baywatch (just our guess) were caught in Spain trying to traffic over 100 pounds of cocaine inside surfboards. Apparently [ more... ]

One team making an overland push through Antarctica required rescue after a person became sick and had to get out. A member of Richard Weber’s expedition had to be airlifted to Punta Arenas and she is reportedly getting the attention she needs. So, who do you call when you need to get out of Antarctica? [ more... ]

The ratio of ten single male skiers for each single woman skier just improved, albeit slightly. Olympic gold medalist and Sports Illustrated cover athlete Lindsey Vonn and her husband are splitting up.  Her ex-husband also served as her chief advisor over the years, so I suppose that’s a job opening as well. “This is an [ more... ]

The flamboyant, 10-foot-long, sperm-shaped delivery bike that’s been used for a while in Europe is now making the reproductive rounds of Seattle, doing duty for the Seattle Sperm Bank as a cryogenic carrier of potential babies to be. Not everyone’s stoked on it, though. “Oh my, I did discuss this with the lab director here, [ more... ]