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This is what adventure sounds like. Writer Fitz Cahall presents stories from unclimbed cliff faces, wind-swept ridges and the people who call the mountains their home.
"I'd built it up in my head a lot--being a professional climber. This felt like the consummation of those dreams. I found the valley, I envi...
"To work in tourism is to witness the human comedy," says Joe Aultman-Moore. "Every guide has stories that start with, "You'll never believe...
Drew Hamilton makes a living by taking tourists out into the remote Alaskan wilderness to hang out with brown bears. No fences, no guns--jus...
What if you could hit pause on life? This last year, Fitz turned 40. Instead of buying a sports car, he took a sabbatical. Today, he present...
Our ninth annual Tales of Terror brings you three stories that will send shivers down your spine. From ghost-like figures walking silently t...
"I'm in this weird reality where I'm using my voice and my status as a woman traveling alone on a motorcycle as a way to talk about conserva...
"I have really good reason to believe that if I hadn't have been walking down the strip and found that 72-foot tower to climb, that I would...
"I was certain I was paralyzed. My legs were totally limp, I was hanging upside down and the only thing stopping me from falling 160-feet he...
"I have a pretty young grandfather, but he was starting to get old and knew he had one or two more big expeditions in him," says Ethan Roebu...
"Any time I ski a steep line, I've done it hundreds of times, and still every time for me there is that moment of fear on top, where I am li...
For most of his adult life, Cam Fenton has fought against climate change--and particularly to protect the Arctic. "The funny thing was, for...
"The definition of kidnapping is moving someone from one point to another point against their will, and that's exactly what had happened to...
"It was a life that was narrow in its margins and seemingly under my control," remembers John Gray. "It wasn't exactly exciting or fulfillin...
"The definition of kidnapping is moving someone from one point to another point against their will, and that's exactly what had happened to...
Today, we bring you the first episode of Duct Tape Then Beer's new show, "Safety Third." Big wall climber and former wingsuit flyer Chris Mc...
"In the early stages of my pregnancy, I was intrigued and ready for the changes that would take place," says Chelsey Magness. "As an athlete...
There are a lot of serious problems in this world, but the solutions don't always have to be serious. Fly-fisherman and trail-runner Andrew...
Chronic depression and the deaths of a few close friends launched Tyler Dunning on a mission to visit all of the National Parks--to get his...
"I was working this corporate job, and, every day, I looked out the window and thought, 'Man, those mountains are so beautiful, I wish I was...
"I'm learning how to listen to that subconscious voice of caution," says Carmen Kuntz. "Where I used to feed on the feeling of adrenaline an...
"For me, it was a way to stay connected--literally: tied to my free-range daughter by a length of 10-millimeter climbing rope, and connected...
"Here I was, a professional wilderness instructor with no food or water, a sopping wet tent and wetter sleeping bag, no way to banish the ch...
"The notion that there's one dream that we're all after and agreed upon ways in which you can verify that you are indeed living that dream d...
"It's like being caught in a spiderweb. You'll find yourself pushing with every part of your body, and no part of your body will be able to...
"I think the jack of all trades gets a bum rap. The jack is the master of none, but I think the jack probably has a lot of fun," says Fitz C...
"I've watched my friends and peers hopscotch across the world," says Fitz Cahall. "Some of them have reached the top of their craft, authore...
"My dad started whistling. That was the first bad sign," Cordelia Zars remembers. "Then walking around the cabin and straightening things. T...
There's a light-hearted joy in orphan holidays. Thanksgiving in Indian Creek or slaying powder for Christmas may sound like more fun than go...
"It's like the Iditarod with a chance of drowning," says Jake Beatty, one of the organizers of a bizarre, crazy race called the Race to Alas...
For our eighth annual Tales of Terror episode, we have not three, but five stories that span the range of things to fear--from angry men wit...
"On a typical day, I taught farmers how to snowplow and chased foreign exchange students through the parking lot as they careened toward die...
Raising awareness. It seems like every day, someone embarks on a new project to 'raise awareness' about a particular issue, cause, disease,...
"If you're thirsty, you're probably already dehydrated. That's what they say. Those perfect people who always have a clean, happily-colored,...
"When we were living in a house, we were always compromising because we had the weight of a mortgage, of doing what we thought we should be...
"I looked like some mountain man's girlfriend, and sometimes, that's all I felt like," remembers Andrea Ross. "It was easy to hide in Darren...
"Picture walking through a parking lot with a ski mask rolled up on your head and a pistol in your pocket. You're getting closer to the bank...
"The reason that I was able to do it is because I was incredibly naive," says Lucas St. Clair. "I had no idea how much work it was going to...
"Three days from the end of the trip, I started to panic," writes Emma Walker. "I still didn't know what to do with my summer, let alone the...
"As a brown woman, I stand out," says Mary Ann Thomas. "People came up to me just because they were curious, just because they were like, 'T...
When a bad breakup sent him spiraling into a deep depression, Tom Ireson fixated on an unconventional way to get his head straight: "I reall...
"I used to go climbing in the same way people would go to a well, a source of life equally routine and sacred. It would fill me up--leave me...
Matt Muchna and Peter Journel are best friends, and complete opposites. Matt is spontaneous. Peter is a planner. Matt is an idealist, Peter...
"Every day on the mountain and every night at the bar, drinking and partying was as much a part of my life as skiing," remembers Paddy O'Con...
Josh Ewing's metamorphosis from climber to climber-activist and the battle to protect Bears Ears.
Loosely speaking, there are two kinds of fear. There's the fear of external, objective hazards--like getting caught in an avalanche, or taki...
If you travel down to Ushuaia, Argentina, you might just find a bus plastered with a massive photograph of Sam Evans-Brown. In that photo, h...
"'Oh, shoot ', my dad muttered for the tenth or fifteenth time in the last five minutes. Then, he burst into exhausted chuckles," remembers...
No matter who they voted for, right now, a lot of people in this country would agree that things could be better. In the long term, if want...
"I have now officially sold out," writes Chris Kalman. "I work more than I climb. I pay rent and sleep in a house I'm getting rich off of wr...
Chad Kellogg. September 22nd, 1971 to February 14th, 2014. Seattle climbing community legend. Dear friend to many. And the toughest guy arou...