Outside Podcast

Outside

Outside’s longstanding literary storytelling tradition comes to life in audio with features that will both entertain and inform listeners. We launched in March 2016 with our first series, Science of Survival, and have since expanded our show and now offer a range of story formats, including reports from our correspondents in the field and interviews with the biggest figures in sports, adventure, and the outdoors.

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May 18, 2022 · 32 min
The Many Ways Dogs Can Heal Us
Our furry best friends are the best of adventure playmates. But they can also provide pure, unconditional love that gets us through the darkest times.
May 11, 2022 · 27 min
What It Feels Like When You Eat a Deadly Mushroom
There’s a distinct pleasure to eating wild foods that you forage yourself—unless you pick the wrong thing
May 4, 2022 · 29 min
The Sometimes Shady, Always Weird World of Truffle Hunters
In forests across the planet, secretive hunters are searching for that rare and insanely expensive wild delicacy: the truffle.
Apr 27, 2022 · 32 min
One Woman’s Wholesome Mission to Get Naked Outside
To become one of those people who joyfully hikes, bikes, and skis in the nude, she’d have to train for it.
Apr 20, 2022 · 33 min
Learning to Listen to Wild Sounds
When we open our ears to the marvels of natural soundscapes, we experience the energies of the world in a unique way—and begin to understand the mysteries behind them
Apr 13, 2022 · 32 min
Is TikTok Motivating People to Get Outdoors?
Something surprising is happening on the video app best known for silly dance moves: users are finding inspiration for adventure
Mar 30, 2022 · 28 min
Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Wild’ Decade
In the ten years since she published her memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, her life has changed dramatically—and so has the trail itself
Mar 23, 2022 · 38 min
An Agonizing Endurance Race Around a Single City Block
What motivates someone to run more than 3,000 miles around a block in Queens, New York? Transcendence.
Mar 16, 2022 · 22 min
How a Vigilante Botanist Became a Cult Icon
Joey Santore is a tattooed ex-punk who is self-taught in the sciences. Which might explain why he’s getting so many people to care about plants.
Mar 9, 2022 · 32 min
A Professional Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness
Drew Petersen seemed like just another free-spirited mountain dude. But the pain he was hiding nearly destroyed him.
Mar 2, 2022 · 30 min
Can Nature Heal Heartbreak?
Science shows that spending time outdoors can help with all kinds of serious ailments. So why not a broken heart?
Feb 16, 2022 · 24 min
When Athletes Dare to Dream Like Artists
Professional skier Markus Eder had a fantasy of an impossible descent. Then he got creative.
Feb 9, 2022 · 29 min
A Father’s Death in the Mountains—and What Came After
Filmmaker Max Lowe on what it’s been like to tell his family’s story in his new documentary, Torn, and what he hopes we can all learn from it
Feb 4, 2022 · 28 min
Olympics Special: The Doubts that Power Mikaela Shiffrin
The most dominant ski racer on the planet is constantly questioning her talents—which may be the secret of her greatness.
Jan 31, 2022 · 34 min
What Surviving an Avalanche Can Teach You About Risk
Over two decades of ambitious adventures, elite skier and climber Zahan Billimoria has had some very close calls in the mountains
Jan 26, 2022 · 37 min
To Save a Life on the North Shore
What it feels like to rescue a surfer from the massive winter waves that crash into the Hawaiian island of Oahu
Jan 19, 2022 · 21 min
A Man, a Plan, a Steam Room
He needed something—anything—to cure his winter COVID blues. Science led him to a mildewy steam room and a very cold shower.
Jan 12, 2022 · 29 min
Who Killed the Ski Bum?
You can blame the usual suspects: the crazy cost of mountain-town housing, the corporatization of the ski industry, the Man. Or dare to believe that our hero lives on.
Dec 22, 2021 · 26 min
Forces of Good: So a Drag Queen Walks into a Mountain Town…
What makes a queer person choose to live in an outdoorsy hot spot instead of an urban gayborhood?
Dec 15, 2021 · 33 min
Forces of Good: Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament is on a Mission to Build Havens for Young Skateboarders
America’s youth are in desperate need of real-life human connection. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame bassist says there’s no better place to provide that than a skate park.