Expedition kayakers Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic overcome being held hostage and strained team dynamics in the Columbian Amazon.

What happens when something vital has the potential to kill you? Guest Chris McNamara

When unimaginable tragedy struck Chelsey Magness’ family, they came up with a unique way to move through their grief.

Fly-fisherman and runner Andrew Todd creates a joyful, irreverent event.

Tyler Dunning's goal to visit all the National Parks meets an unexpected obstacle--himself.

Perry Cohen founded the Venture Out Project to teach queer folks basic outdoor skills, and to create a safe, supportive community to experience the outdoors.

Kayaker Carmen Kuntz has to learn to balance her love for her sport with the risk of re-injuring herself.

At age 72, David Altschul gets redemption on a failed ascent of Beacon Rock, connects with his daughter and becomes a 'real' climber.

Wilderness instructors Emma Walker and her husband are unconcerned about an overnight backpack trip in Hawaii.

In May of 2017, Forest McBrian and Trevor Kostanich spent a month traversing the North Cascades from Snoqualmie Pass to the Canadian Border.

Elsa Sebastian wants to preserve the last remaining old growth stands on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.

An ode to mediocrity and other goals to inspire you for a new year.

Some people grow upward and outward; some people root down. For Fitz Cahall, what growth means has changed over time.

Cordelia Zars shares stories of her family's unconventional adventures--like dragged a 90-lb keyboard 10-miles through the snow on a 9-degree Colorado evening--and she reflects on how those excursions shaped her and her siblings.

Katie Wallace learns to see family holidays as a privilege rather than an obligation.

"It's like the Iditarod with a chance of drowning," says Jake Beatty, one of the organizers of the Race to Alaska. What's crazier than trying to race from WA to AK on a boat without a motor? Karl Kruger's decision to enter the race on a SUP.

For our eighth annual Tales of Terror episode, we have five stories that span the range of things to fear--from angry men with shotguns, to bears and mountain lions, to things that really don't have any explanation in the world of science.

When Tyler Neese and four friends loaded up the truck for a spring break ski vacation in Colorado, the stoke was high. Until, just minutes from the slopes black ice and a distracted driver flipped their trip upside down. Sometimes, it's not about what happens to you, it's about how you react.

For our third Endangered Spaces episode, we travel to Northern Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to follow Dave and Amy Freeman on "Paddle to D.C." and "A Year in the Wilderness," two adventures that had a real impact in advocating for the protection of the place they love most.

"If you're thirsty, you're probably already dehydrated. That's what they say. Those perfect people who always have a clean, happily-colored, reusable adult sippy bottle on hand," says Anya Miller. "Most often, I only realize that I'm thirty when someone offers me a drink. My friend Jesse Bushey brought up climbing El Cap. I didn't even know I wanted to--until he suggested it."

"When we were living in a house, we were always compromising what we thought we should be doing," remembers Kathy Holcombe. Until, the day she, her husband, Peter, and their daughter Abby moved into a Winnebago to travel and work from the road. "I want her to see that... whatever her wildest dreams are, to chase them and not stop until they come true," says Kathy. 12 year old Abby's dream? To kayak the 280-miles of the classic Grand Canyon run.

"I looked like some mountain man's girlfriend, and sometimes, that's all I felt like," remembers Andrea Ross. But after an accident on Mt. Humphreys forced Andrea to draw on her EMT training, she reached a turning point in her relationship and the way she imagined her life.

Roland Thompson used to rob banks. Now he climbs and snowboards.

Lucas St. Clair worked to establish Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in the North Woods of Maine.

"Three days from the end of the trip, I started to panic," writes Emma Walker. "I still didn't know what to do with my summer, let alone the rest of my life. Inspiration, as I'd imagined it, hadn't struck. Now, I had to face the realization that I didn't have an exit strategy. This had been it, and it would inevitably end." The summer after her first year of graduate school, Emma enrolled in an Alaska Pacific University Expedition Mountaineering course. She told her family she signed up because it meant she'd earn graduate credits to traipse around the Harding Icefield. But she also hoped the trip would bring some clarity on the bigger questions, like whether or not grad school had been a mistake and what she was still doing in Alaska. No lightning bolts of clarity struck during her trip, but looking back a year later, she could see that, perhaps, her month in the Alaska mountains had given her the inspiration she needed after all. You can find more of Emma's writing at myalaskanodyssey.com or listen to her first Short, "I Poo: A Love Story"