Ski the 14ers
Chris Davenport has a dream: to ski all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in a single winter. Veteran mountaineer Lou Dawson agrees to help. But it
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Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit
A spoof of the Discovery Channel Show, Everest: Beyond the Limit, created after an incident when the director realized he was more than a little
Ascending The Giants
For a pair of arborist-adventurers, climbing isn’t just something to do on a cliff. A journey into the canopy of Washington’s Olympic National Park.
Caribbean
One week in the Caribbean during an Atlantic Ocean hurricane swell. Local surfers share some tube time and fun in the sun.
Dying for Everest
Mark Ingles became the first double amputee to summit Mt. Everest. However, he was greeted not with a hero’s welcome but with media condemnation when
Finding Balance
A short film that explores the relationship between the outdoors and the creative energy that fuels Lucas Reynolds’s music.
The Fatal Game
After summitting Mt. Everest in 1994, Kiwi guide Mark Whetu and his client Mike Rheinberger are forced to bivouac at 28,800 feet. The next day
Surfing Morocco
The swell-forecasting models were predicting the biggest swell of the year to hit northern Africa by week’s end, and the crew had only a matter
Spirit of Snow
A tour of backcountry skiing’s roots–from its origins in Central Asia and Scandanavia to the 10th Mountain Division in WII to present day freeriders–that is