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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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  • Dec 11, 2018 · 38 min

    Sweat Science: Loving the Pain

    There’s no more painful pursuit for a cyclist than the hour record.It’s just you, by yourself, on a bike, going as far and as fast as you can in 60 minutes. Eddie Merckx, considered by many to be the greatest pro racer in history,

  • Nov 27, 2018 · 28 min

    Dispatches: What Dogs Really Think about Dog Gear

    For more than two decades, Ruffwear has been reinventing gear for dogs. The brand makes booties, jackets, collars, toys, and pretty much anything else you could want for your pup. But how do you design something when the end user can’t give you feedbac...

  • Nov 20, 2018 · 45 min

    Sweat Science: Don’t Waste Your Breath

    Pararescue specialists—known as PJ’s in the military—are the most elite unit in the Air Force. But if you want to be a PJ you have to make it through Indoc, a brutal nine-week training course that’s designed to test your motivation and resolve.

  • Nov 14, 2018 · 39 min

    Dispatches: Can Nature Heal Our Deepest Wounds?

    Wilderness therapy has been used for decades to help troubled teens and addicts, and recently all kinds of people are seeking out guided nature experiences to detox from their hyper-digital modern lives. The classic approach of such programs is to push...

  • Nov 8, 2018 · 48 min

    Sweat Science: The Pull-Up Artists

    John Orth is a violin maker from Colorado. Andrew Shapiro is a college kid from Virginia. They have little in common except that for the last two years they’ve been trading back and forth the world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours.

  • Oct 30, 2018 · 16 min

    Dispatches: One Fork to Rule them All

    In this first episode of a new series exploring how gear gets made, we investigate the origin of arguably the most refined fork in history. When designer Owen Mesdag was a graduate student in the late-1990s,

  • Oct 23, 2018 · 23 min

    Dispatches: Alex Honnold on “Free Solo”

    The new movie Free Solo is arguably the greatest film about climbing that’s ever been made. In just over 90 minutes, it chronicles Alex Honnold’s astonishing no-ropes ascent of the 3,000-foot sheer face of Yosemite’s El Capitan,

  • Oct 9, 2018 · 33 min

    Dispatches: Wild Thing

    Journalist Laura Krantz doesn’t believe in Bigfoot. She’s trained to be skeptical, and all the best Sasquatch sightings and photos have been debunked. Except, then she heard about Grover Krantz, a serious academic and long lost relative who had spent h...

  • Sep 25, 2018 · 24 min

    Science of Survival: Burnout

    Maybe you saw the fire coming, maybe you didn’t. Maybe you were ready for it, maybe you weren’t. Maybe you did everything right. Maybe not. Maybe you just lost everything. Maybe that’s not even the worst of it.

  • Sep 11, 2018 · 31 min

    Science of Survival: The Future of Fire

    To reduce the intensity of megafires in America, we’d need to treat and burn about 50-80 million acres of forest. So, how do we do it? What would it cost? How long would it take? Is it possible? In this episode we look at whether or not there’s anythin...

  • Aug 28, 2018 · 23 min

    Science of Survival: Fighting Fire with Fire

    How do you protect yourself from wildfire on a warming planet? You burn everything on purpose. No, seriously. Thanks to climate change, the whole world is a tinderbox. Fire season now starts sooner and ends later,

  • Aug 14, 2018 · 36 min

    Science of Survival: The Sky is Burning

    There are between eight and ten thousand wildfires in the United States each year, but most quietly burn out, and we never hear about them. The Pagami Creek Wildfire in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area was supposed to be like that.

  • Jul 11, 2018 · 42 min

    Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning

    Most of the time, when lightning makes the news, it’s because of something outlandish—like the park ranger who was struck seven times, or the survivor who also won the lottery (the chances of which are about one in 2.6 trillion),

  • Jun 26, 2018 · 37 min

    The Outside Interview: The Simple Secrets to Athletic Longevity

    Everyone gets older, but not everyone bows out of competition in middle-age. Journalist Jeff Bercovici wanted to know: Why? Why do some athletes flame out in their 30s and 40s, while others are still going as senior citizens? Is it genetics?

  • Jun 19, 2018 · 22 min

    Dispatches: Shelma Jun Can Flash Foxy

    Climbing was Shelma Jun’s fallback sport. A snowboarder and mountain biker, she found her way into a climbing gym after injuring her shoulder and looking for an activity where she wouldn’t risk more impact. As a friend told her,

  • Jun 12, 2018 · 23 min

    Dispatches: Knox Robinson Crafts Running Culture

    Knox Robinson grew up watching his dad run and went on to race track himself at a Division I college, but he was never defined by the sport. He’s more of a renaissance man. For years, he gave up athletics, studying and living in Japan,

  • May 29, 2018 · 25 min

    Dispatches: Ayesha McGowan Wants to Be First

    Ayesha McGowan came late to competitive cycling. An accomplished violinist, she didn’t enter her first organized biking event until after college. Despite riding an old steel bike with a milk crate on the back and wearing jean shorts in a peloton of sp...

  • May 22, 2018 · 17 min

    Dispatches: Mikhail Martin is a Brother of Climbing

    When Mikhail Martin started climbing at a Brooklyn gym in 2009, he was one of very few African Americans to rope up. Today, his group, Brothers of Climbing, is working to change that. BOC is tackling diversity in rock climbing,

  • May 15, 2018 · 45 min

    Dispatches: Bundyville

    What the Bundy family's battle with the federal government really means for the future of public lands in the American West