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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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  • Aug 14, 2024 · 36 min

    The Story of Outside’s Funniest Story

    What’s stranger than a story about people stuffing ferrets down their pants? How about that story leading the writer to create one of the largest, most successful digital media companies, ever

  • Jul 17, 2024 · 38 min

    How Fat Makes You Fast

    Some of the most hardcore athletes in the world are elite race walkers. Moving faster than most people can run, their sport pushes the limits of endurance, pain tolerance, and fueling

  • Jul 10, 2024 · 47 min

    In Search of a Quiet Mind

    A few years ago, after suffering a mental health crisis during a mountaineering expedition, National Geographic photographer Cory Richards walked away from his climbing career. In 2016, after a terrible rafting accident, Outside writer Katie Arnold nearly ended her marriage. This summer, they are both telling their stories in powerful new books.

  • Jun 26, 2024 · 47 min

    What You Can Learn from More than One Octopus

    After My Octopus Teacher won the Oscar for Best Documentary, the producers realized they had left an important voice out of their movie—indigenous South Africans who had been silenced and separated from the ocean by apartheid

  • Jun 19, 2024 · 57 min

    Caroline Gleich's Biggest Adventure Yet

    Caroline Gleich is a renowned climber and skier, a climate activist, and now the Utah democratic party’s candidate for US senate. But what would she actually do in Washington?

  • Jun 5, 2024 · 41 min

    Hello Darkness. Let's Get Weird

    Three days in total blackout darkness doesn’t sound that hard, until you hear this story about someone who tried to do it

  • May 8, 2024 · 49 min

    The 200-Mile Race to Tell the World about Everest

    When the British Empire finally put boots on top of the world on May 29, 1953, the news was entrusted to a young man named Ten Tsewang Sherpa, who ran 200 miles to Kathmandu

  • Apr 24, 2024 · 44 min

    The Subtle Art of Catch and Release

    When PTSD changed the course of Chad Brown’s life, the subtle art of catch and release fly fishing changed it back

  • Apr 17, 2024 · 2 hr 11 min

    Breaking Down Point Break

    Movies don’t get much better than surfer-heist popcorn flick Point Break (1991). Movies don’t really get much worse than surfer-heist popcorn flick Point Break (2015). What happened?

  • Apr 3, 2024 · 28 min

    Alaska is the Center of the Universe

    Where did eagles come from? Why are grizzly bears so mean? In this Audible Original excerpt, host James Dommek Jr—the great-grandson of a famous Iñupiaq storyteller— travels around the state listening to legends from different cultures and traditions. The result is a beautiful portrait of life in the north, and a new twist on the idea of a survival story. Alaska isn't the last frontier, it's the center of the universe. The Outside Podcast is made possible by our Outside Plus members. Learn more about all the benefits of membership at outsideonline.com/podplus.

  • Mar 27, 2024 · 26 min

    Wild Animals Taught Me to… Run!

    Singer-songwriter David Lindes found his way into running with help from the most unexpected teacher: a bull moose