Christopher Keyes

'Falter' is a frightening read but also an essential one. And it does offer some hope, pointing to two recent…

David Goggins's new memoir, Can't Hurt Me , is written in part as a self-help manual, but the opening line de…

"Begin bygathering up all your attention and bringing it to whatever sensations you're feeling in the body." …

If there's a new technology or diet out there promising to improve your life, chances are Ben Greenfield has …

Last May, we dedicated an entire issue of Outside to the topic of women in the outdoors. The move was as over…

"In my father's company, trips have a tendency to spiral into disaster," wrote Wells Tower in his 2008 Outsid…

Before the tense drama unfolds in American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West ($28, Cro…

If we've learned anything in the past 40 years, it's that stories about people who have suffered in the extre…

One morning early on in my tenure as editor of magazine, I boarded a flight for New York and eased into my ai…

Professional athletics have long been a rich vein for Hollywood laughs, and nearly every sport can point to a…

If you care about the future of public lands, you are probably aware that politicians had been making noise a…

"It's hard to get to?" When searching for a downside to Deplar Farm, the newest heli-skiing and fishing lodge…

During her four-year tenure as Secretary of the Interior, Sally Jewell, a former oil-industry engineer and CE…

A few years ago, James Levine, a doctor of endo­crinology at the Mayo Clinic, sparked a radical change in Ame…

In the middle of our fifth week of working on our Encyclopedia of Gear, I got embroiled in an e-mail thread t…

In a perfect week, I get high Monday through Sunday. A decent week means I'm high at least five of those days…

"What's new?" Lately, this polite attempt at small talk has been my kryptonite. It may seem benign and friend…

The reliably volatile mashup of American hubris and untrammeled wilderness has kept adventure writers on the …

For as long as I've been at the magazine, Outside has routinely been accused of milking Lance Armstrong's pop…

Did cavemen eat bugs? That may seem like an odd question to lead off an issue packed with adventure-travel st…

What makes Hal Koerner so damn happy? Ask him that-or any question, really-and you'll get an answer that betr…

Didn't the redistricting controversy end three years ago? Yes. And wasn't Leatherface killed in The Texas Cha…

Where are the best places to eat barbecue in Texas? Six years ago we published a highly subjective-and hotly …

WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, up until I was seven or eight years old, my parents were migrant workers. We lived in …