It’s a year and half before the Washburn Fire blew up near Yosemite’s famed Mariposa Grove of sequoias in mid-July of 2022, and Garrett is inside the hollowed-out trunk of a sequoia that burned in the Castle Fire. That fire, which started outside of…

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A ski trip into these Italian mountains unfolds into a learning experience and a bridge to much needed healing Our writer was looking to find solace on the congested slopes of Snowdon in Wales when COVID-19 shut it down. He soon realized that a…

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Vaccines are rolling out with increasing speed, but we’ll also need effective treatments, because new coronavirus cases will be a worldwide reality for years to come. Enter Jacob Glanville, a maverick San Francisco immunologist who believes he’s…

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“This is interesting. Not too thick,” said Jim Crawford, an atmospheric chemist wearing a motion-sickness patch behind his ear. It was afternoon in late July 2019, and Crawford was bearing down on a skein of wildfire smoke visible from the cockpit of…

The night before Nouria Newman nearly drowned in India, in August 2018, she used her paddle to sweep animal dung out of an abandoned stone hut. The then 25-year-old French kayaker was alone at 13,467 feet in the Himalayas. “It’s gonna be the…

Turns out polarized glass is nice when the water’s frozen, too. Costas excel in the mountains, with an athletic fit that helps them stay put. Buy Now With hydrophobic goose down, a longer cut to keep the coat from creeping up above your pack’s waist…

Sam Moulton is Outside’s director of marketing. Find Me For the last five years, REI has closed its doors on Black Friday for a day outside. This year it’s doing more. It has a paint-by-numbers plot, loads of sexism and gratuitous nudity, and a…

It might one day be to the world’s great fortune that Jacob Glanville, a young immunologist trying to make a name for himself in the field of universal vaccines, went online and found Tim Friede, a mechanic who had been shooting lethal doses of snake…

E Meanwhile, in the aquarium, the snail shoots a tiny harpoon-shaped tooth from its proboscis. Bam!—the mollusk lances its prey, squirting a toxic cocktail that makes the finned creature thrash like it’s been tasered. Its gills are still twitching…

Sometime before 7 A.M. on November 8, Kit Bailey, an assistant chief with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, got a call about a new wildfire that sounded ominous. It had started 30 minutes earlier on a ridge above Pulga, an old…

Around 4:00 p.m. on June 30, 2013, a 30-year-old hotshot named Christopher MacKenzie pulls a camera from his pocket and shoots a short video. Downhill from him are ten firefighters, all members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. In the background, the…