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Outside Podcast — 283 episodes

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Holiday Adventures Gone Wrong

2

The Real Magic We See in the Northern Lights

3

What Happens to Drivers Who Hit Cyclists

4

Weekend Read: The Supposed Dream Life of a Ski Patroller

5

Weekend Read: The Adventures of a Pony Named Legend

6

What it Takes to Survive a Winter War

7

Weekend Read: An SOS from the Middle of the Ocean

8

Humanity’s Most Confounding Survival Epic

9

Weekend Read: The Obsessive Dedication of the World’s Greatest Rock Skipper

10

Bear Grylls Wants to Talk About Your Mental Health

11

He Fought a Bear with a Pocketknife

12

A Perilous Chase on the Open Sea

13

What I Learned About Survival and Motherhood from Two Lambs

14

Paralyzed by a Scorpion in the Grand Canyon

15

The Unshakeable Spirit of the World’s Greatest Surfer

16

Why You Can’t Stop Watching Survival TV

17

Why Outdoor Sports Make You Cry

18

Why Outdoor Adventures Make You Crave a Giant, Juicy Burger

19

Summer Read: They Chose Death over Life Apart

20

The Obsessives Who Hunted Forrest Fenn’s Treasure

21

Summer Read: My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dream Job

22

How Viggo Mortensen Became a Cave-Diving Legend

23

Summer Read: A Mount Hood Tragedy We’ll Never Forget

24

A Frantic Escape from a Wildfire

25

Summer Read: Testing Love on the Open Sea

26

A Bold New Way to Poop in the Outdoors

27

Summer Read: A Little Boy Lost in the Woods

28

Bad Decisions, Good Stories

29

Summer Read: The Sinking of the ‘Henrietta C.’

30

How I Met Your Motherland

31

What it Feels Like to Fight a Wildfire

32

Jack Johnson Reaches for Hope

33

How Blockchain Technology Can Get Us Outside

34

Swimming for Your Life in the Open Ocean

35

How We Find Love in Wild Places

36

A Thriller from the Death Zone

37

The Many Ways Dogs Can Heal Us

38

What It Feels Like When You Eat a Deadly Mushroom

39

The Sometimes Shady, Always Weird World of Truffle Hunters

40

One Woman’s Wholesome Mission to Get Naked Outside

41

Learning to Listen to Wild Sounds

42

Is TikTok Motivating People to Get Outdoors?

43

Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Wild’ Decade

44

An Agonizing Endurance Race Around a Single City Block

45

How a Vigilante Botanist Became a Cult Icon

46

A Professional Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness

47

Can Nature Heal Heartbreak?

48

When Athletes Dare to Dream Like Artists

49

A Father’s Death in the Mountains—and What Came After

50

Olympics Special: The Doubts that Power Mikaela Shiffrin

51

What Surviving an Avalanche Can Teach You About Risk

52

To Save a Life on the North Shore

53

A Man, a Plan, a Steam Room

54

Who Killed the Ski Bum?

55

Forces of Good: So a Drag Queen Walks into a Mountain Town…

56

Forces of Good: Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament is on a Mission to Build Havens for Young Skateboarders

57

Forces of Good: Hiking 48,000 Miles to Create Community

58

Forces of Good: Running in the Name of Love

59

Forces of Good: Teaching the Psychology of Survival

60

Forces of Good: A Herculean Quest to Make a Difference

61

Forces of Good: The Gearhead Librarian Who Revived a Town

62

Forces of Good: A Comedian Faces Her Fear of Nature

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Forces of Good: Getting All Bodies Outdoors

64

It Happened Deep in a Cave in the Amazon

65

Why We Love an Internet Dog

66

Forces of Good: W. Kamau Bell Seeks a United America

67

Finding Freedom Through Climbing

68

Nick Offerman Gets Down to Earth

69

The Musicians Capturing the Power of Wild Places

70

A Scientist Finds Her Way in the Rainforest

71

What the Mountains Teach Us About Patience

72

A Wild Ride into the Garden of Eden

73

When Wild Animals Misbehave

74

Why Thinking About Death Makes Us Happier

75

The Dumbest, Greatest Road Trip Ever

76

What It Takes to Be Alex Honnold’s Climbing Partner

77

Desperate Road Trippers Saved by…Instagram?

78

A Soldier’s Long Road Back from Afghanistan

79

A Runner’s Terrifying Fall—and What Came After

80

How to Date an Athlete

81

The Rattlesnake Bite That Changed Everything

82

The Stinky Truths About Your Sweat

83

Saved by Far-Flung Travel

84

The Many Upsides of Taking On Unreasonable Challenges

85

The Most Painful Record in Sports

86

A Pro Climber’s Coming-Out Story

87

The Adventures That Made a Super Dad

88

A Pro Climber and the Disorder that Brought Him Down to Earth

89

An Agonizingly Thirsty Crawl Through the Desert

90

Casting out of Darkness

91

Alone and Injured in the Wild

92

Running from the Truth

93

The Wild Trips That Transformed a Scientist

94

The Story Behind the Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt

95

A Quest to Expose the World’s Most Dangerous Frontier

96

When the Tornado Chased the Storm Chaser

97

A Journey to the Strange World Beyond Our Screens

98

An Elite Adventurer Reckons with Risk

99

An Appalachian Trail Horror Story

100

Biking the Iditarod in Search of Pain

101

Life and Death Among the Polar Bears

102

A Bold Plan to Make Pro Cycling Cool Again

103

When an Athlete Refuses to Be Broken

104

Embracing a Fear of Falling

105

How the Ski Bum Was Made

106

A Desperate Need for the Mountains

107

“It Was a Way to Keep His Spirit Alive”

108

Buried Alive—and Running Out of Time

109

A Climbing Disaster Interrupted by a Love Story

110

The Pure Joy of Bionic Skiing

111

A Veteran Surfer’s Big-Wave Nightmare

112

How a Surfer Survived Being Stranded in the Open Sea

113

Why Learning a New Skill Is So Good for You

114

Inside Emily Harrington's Triumph on El Capitan

115

Life Lessons from Elite Explorers

116

Tim Cook on Health and Fitness

117

Two Wild Trips with Surprisingly Happy Endings

118

How BASE Jumping Saved Jeb Corliss's Life

119

Latria Graham’s Love Letter to Black Adventurers

120

How a Fight over Trees Transformed American Politics

121

A Snowboarder's Quest to Get Out the Vote

122

The Climbers Speaking Up About Eating Disorders

123

How the Pandemic Is Teaching Us to Listen to Nature

124

A First-Time Hunter Gets a Lesson from #WomenWhoHunt

125

Changing How You Breathe Could Change Your Life

126

A Harebrained Dream of Building a Cabin in the Woods

127

What We Really Know About Life in Outer Space

128

Why Big Wild’s Songs Feel Like Adventures

129

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Wants YOU to Save the Planet

130

Trapped Underwater and Running Out of Air

131

The Dirty Awesome Truth About Summer Camp

132

That Time the Camp Snake Tried to Eat a Counselor

133

A Close Encounter with the Real Moby Dick

134

A Kayaker’s Brush with Death

135

Running While Black in New York

136

A Love Story Interrupted by a Bison Attack

137

How Kara Goucher Stood Up to Running's Goliath

138

The Filmmaker Who Cracked Open Lance Armstrong

139

What Happens to a Cyclist's Body When It's Hit by a Car

140

A Half-Baked Trip that Ended with a Magical Eclipse

141

The Switch in Your Brain That Turns Down Stress

142

Chased by a Jaguar in the Heart of the Amazon

143

Why You Desperately Want to Jump in a Lake

144

Is the Battle Over Nike’s Vaporfly Ruining Running?

145

An Unsettling Crime at the Top of the World

146

When 18 Tigers Were Let Loose in Zanesville, Ohio

147

What It’s Really Like Being on ‘Naked and Afraid’

148

The Dawn of a New Sports Bra Era

149

How Nature Heals an Injured Brain

150

What A.I. Hears in the Rainforest

151

A Tale of Two Dramatic Big-Wave Rescues

152

A Long-Shot Bid to Save the Monarch Butterfly

153

Ben Greenfield’s Radical Fitness Strategies

154

The Only Time It's OK to Jump Off a Chairlift

155

Seeking Magic and Solace in the Northern Lights

156

Rich Roll Is the Oprah of Endurance Sports

157

How a Ski Accident with My Daughter Changed Everything

158

How Kikkan Randall Keeps Coming Back

159

When Nature Gets Heavy Metal

160

Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s All-In Partnership

161

Getting Stung by the Nastiest Creatures on Earth

162

Richard Louv Wants You to Bond with Wild Animals

163

The Hardest Part of a Rescue Comes Later

164

When Our Podcast Host Shattered His Leg in a Canyon

165

The Curious Rise of Adult Recess Leagues

166

Why the Godfather of Barefoot Running Trains with a Donkey

167

A Wild Odyssey with the World’s Greatest Chef

168

Dispatches: The Wrong Way to Fight Off a Bear

169

Dispatches: Getting Past Our Fear of Great White Sharks

170

Science of Survival: Defending Your Home from a Raging Wildfire

171

The Outside Interview: David Epstein on Why the Best Athletes Like to Dabble and Frequently Quit

172

Dispatches: Doug Peacock on the Fight to Protect Grizzly Bears

173

Dispatches: Will Drinking a Gallon of Water a Day Make You Healthier?

174

Dispatches: This Is What a Runner Looks Like

175

Dispatches: Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?

176

What Awe in Nature Does for Us

177

Dispatches: Bundyville, The Remnant

178

The Doctors Prescribing Nature

179

Sweat Science: The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Top Athletes

180

Why a Walk in the Woods Cures the Blues

181

Science of Survival: Snakebit, Part 2

182

The Radically Simple Digital Diet We All Need

183

Science of Survival: Snakebit, Part 1

184

Dispatches: Buried Treasure and Duct Tape

185

Dispatches: Bob Ross’s Strategies for Survival

186

Sweat Science: The Keto Conundrum

187

The Outside Interview: Bill McKibben on the End of Nature

188

Dispatches: Can You Outrun Anxiety?

189

The Outside Interview: Steven Rinella Wants Hunters and Hikers to Hold Hands

190

Dispatches: Sports Recovery Secrets from Scientists

191

The Outside Interview: Mindfulness for Peak Performance

192

Dispatches: The Mountain Bikers Fighting New Trails

193

Dispatches: Bianca Valenti Is on a Big Wave Mission

194

The Outside Interview: Using Pain to Reach Your Potential

195

Sweat Science: The 3100-Mile Run Around the Block

196

Dispatches: Can We Please Kill Off Crutches?

197

Sweat Science: Loving the Pain

198

Dispatches: What Dogs Really Think about Dog Gear

199

Sweat Science: Don’t Waste Your Breath

200

Dispatches: Can Nature Heal Our Deepest Wounds?

201

Sweat Science: The Pull-Up Artists

202

Dispatches: One Fork to Rule them All

203

Dispatches: Alex Honnold on “Free Solo”

204

Dispatches: Wild Thing

205

Science of Survival: Burnout

206

Science of Survival: The Future of Fire

207

Science of Survival: Fighting Fire with Fire

208

Science of Survival: The Sky is Burning

209

Dispatches: The Hidden Graves of Kuku Island

210

The Outside Interview: The Simple Secrets to Athletic Longevity

211

Dispatches: Shelma Jun Can Flash Foxy

212

Dispatches: Knox Robinson Crafts Running Culture

213

Dispatches: Ayesha McGowan Wants to Be First

214

Dispatches: Mikhail Martin is a Brother of Climbing

215

Dispatches: Bundyville

216

Dispatches: Kellee Edwards’s Story is a Trip

217

Dispatches: Alexi Pappas Dreams Like a Crazy and Runs Like One, Too

218

Science of Survival: A Very Old Man for a Wolf

219

Dispatches: The Woman Who Rides Mountains

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Dispatches: Kris Tompkins’s 10-Million-Acre Life

221

Science of Survival: “F/V Destination, Do You Copy?”

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Dispatches: Bear Grylls Will Never Give Up

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Dispatches: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Creativity

224

Dispatches: An Amazingly Crappy Story

225

The Outside Interview: Your Hungry Brain is Making You Fat

226

Dispatches: Red Dawn in Lapland

227

The Outside Interview: Susan Casey Might Have Gills

228

Science of Survival: He That is Down Need Fear No Fall

229

The Outside Interview: The Whole Life Challenge Is Easier Than You Think

230

Science of Survival: Bee Still My Heart

231

Science of Survival: Dangerously Delicious

232

Dispatches: The Secret History of Biosphere 2

233

Science of Survival: Adrift

234

Science of Survival: Frozen Alive Redux

235

The Outside Interview: Can’t Hack It? Gene-Hack It

236

The Outside Interview: Doc Parsley Solves Your Sleep Crisis

237

Dispatches: Can Humans Outrun Antelope?

238

The Outside Interview: Dr. Michael Gervais on Mental Mastery

239

Dispatches: Captain Jackass

240

The Outside Interview: Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece on the Extreme Edge of Fitness

241

Dispatches: The Fine Art of Weaponizing Critters

242

Dispatches: Jack Johnson Loses His Cool

243

XX Factor: 1200 Miles on Blood Road

244

XX Factor: Vanessa Garrison Walks the Walk

245

Science of Survival: A Very Scary Fish Story

246

XX Factor: How the Sports Bra Changed History

247

Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce

248

Science of Survival: Racing a Dying Brain

249

XX Factor: The Ice Queen Cometh

250

Science of Survival: Drinking Yourself to Death

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XX Factor: Diana Nyad Goes the Distance

252

XX Factor: Snowboarding While Iranian

253

Science of Survival: Cloudbusters

254

Science of Survival: The Death Blow

255

XX Factor: A Woman’s Place is on Top

256

XX Factor: Beth Rodden Unpacked

257

Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 2

258

Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 1

259

Science of Survival: The Everest Effect

260

The Outside Interview: Florence Williams on The Nature Fix

261

Science of Survival: Treed by a Jaguar

262

Science of Survival: Line of Blood in the Sand

263

The Outside Interview: Mark Sundeen on the New Pioneers

264

Dispatches: Call of the Wild Things

265

The Outside Interview: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell

266

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 3

267

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 2

268

Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 1

269

Dispatches: National Parks Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Reverence

270

Dispatches: The Sound of Science

271

The Outside Interview: The Hard Lessons of Climbing Superstar Conrad Anker

272

The Outside Interview: The Secret History of Doping

273

The Outside Interview: Tim Ferriss Overshares

274

The Outside Interview: Jason Motlagh on the Darién Gap

275

The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton

276

Science of Survival: In Too Deep

277

Science of Survival: Under Pressure

278

Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part II

279

Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part I

280

Science of Survival BONUS: Whatever Happens, Happens

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Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning

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Science of Survival: Frozen Alive

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