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Fifteen teams lifted off from Switzerland in gas ballooning’s most audacious race. Three days later, two of them drifted into Belarusian airspace—but only one would survive.
The Timber Thief & the Geneticist | Outside
Timber poachers ignited a massive wildfire that destroyed thousands of acres of Washington state’s Olympic National Forest. Then they vanished. But Forest Service detectives had a few tricks up their sleeves.
A harrowing escape from a war-torn country places a group of refugees in an impossible situation: out of water, out of time, and with hundreds of miles to go.
An elite soldier lies on the brink of death after a raid in Iraq, the world’s best doctors ready to pull the plug. But they don’t know Andy Chavez.
The odds of dying on Everest are about one in 100. A new pulse oximeter claims it can drastically reduce that risk.
Locals in Ontario, Canada, say water is a human right, not a commodity.
How do we reconcile the desire to protect a wild place with the need to experience it, footprints and all?
Manmade waves have long left elite surfers cold. American Wave Machines and Kelly Slater Wave Company are trying to change that.