Outside Podcast
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.
A Bull Named Party Bus and the Rodeo Clown Showdown
How We Survive
Alone and Broken in the Desert
Navigating a Class V Marriage
A Holiday in Hell
Butterflies on the Wall—Part 2
Butterflies on the Wall—Part 1
The Disappearance of the Monarch King—Part 2
The Disappearance of the Monarch King—Part 1
A Suspiciously Straightforward Treasure Hunt
Ada Limon Wants Picnic Tables to Make You Feel Something
The Banks Growing Money on Trees
The Mystery of the Mis-Labeled Mollusk
The Story of Outside’s Funniest Story
The Olympic Athletes Being Required to Take Drugs
The Battle for Swimming’s Suits and Running's Soul
How Fat Makes You Fast
In Search of a Quiet Mind
What You Can Learn from More than One Octopus
Caroline Gleich's Biggest Adventure Yet
A Pro Kayaker Walks into Some Hip-Hop Bars
Hello Darkness. Let's Get Weird
The Craziest Lost Dog Story Ever
A Totally Different Way to Look at the Northern Lights
The 200-Mile Race to Tell the World about Everest
The Runners Who Went So Hard They Were Never the Same
The Subtle Art of Catch and Release
Breaking Down Point Break
Your Rain Jacket May Soon Be Illegal
Alaska is the Center of the Universe
Wild Animals Taught Me to… Run!
On the Front Lines of NYC’s ‘Kittenpocalypse’
The Size Disadvantage
The Trouble with the Internet’s Most Famous Moose
Way, Way Too Close to a Whale
Can Golf Be an Endurance Sport?
Do Couples That Ski Together Stay Together?
The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Has Another Story to Tell
A Wild Conversation with E. Jean Carroll
The President of Off-the-Couch Fitness
Training Like a Pop Star (Taylor's Version)
The Anti-Bonk Diet
Burgers, Palm Trees, and Buried Treasure
The Most Unexpected Way for an Athlete to Get Faster
Are We Done with the Endangered Species Act?
The Curious Rise (and Fall) in Cougar Attacks
Big News About Our Show
What Mikaela Shiffrin Only Tells Her Mom
Celebrating the Spirit of an Adventurer
The Strange New World of DIY Sufferfests
Learning to Love the Creepy Crawly Things
So You Wanna Be an Outdoor Parent
“I Needed to Keep Running to Heal Myself”
A Long Walk from Rural Alaska to the Runways of Paris
The Running Life of Indie Rocker Ben Gibbard
“These Brides Are Trying to Kill Us”
Confessions of PCT Thru-Hikers
In Search of a Darker Night
Summer Read: A Journey Across Iceland in Search of My Health
When Yvon Chouinard Invites You to Go Surfing
Summer Read: A Murder on the Appalachian Trail
For the Love of Summer Camp
Summer Read: Walking the Haunted Past of the Mississippi Delta
Is AI the Weekend Adventurer’s New Best Friend?
Summer Read: An Obsessive Quest to See 10,000 Bird Species
The Joy of the Very Short Adventure
Summer Read: What Heatstroke Really Feels Like
A Wild Ride on the Pony Express
What Science Tells Us About the Power of Awe
William Shatner’s Enduring Love for Planet Earth
Dave Eggers Is 99 Percent Animal
A Foolhardy Attempt to See an Eclipse from the Top of the Andes
The Real Lives of Wildland Firefighters
Bill McKibben on the Next Phase of Climate Activism
The Love Story That Saved 15 Million Acres in Patagonia
Inside a Sinking Submarine
Finding Magic in the Night Sky
The Storm That Changed Everything
Why We Hold On to the Climbing Gym
A Bold Rescue on a Moab Cliff
The Best Worst Accidents
So, a Comedian Walks Into the Woods ...
A Foolhardy Quest for the Holy Grail of Fly-Fishing
What We Get—and Don’t—from Adventuring Alone
Just Try Not to Breathe
A Race to Save His Dying Friend
What You Learn During Seven Hours on a Ski Lift
To Save the Soul of a Mountain Town
Why Skier Angel Collinson Quit at the Peak of Her Career
When Cody Townsend Let Go of His Ego
A Wild Mission to Visit Every National Park in One Year
How Psychedelics Helped a Paralyzed Athlete Walk Again
A Vegetarian Runner’s Quest to Become a Meat Eater
An Exhilarating Dip in the Bone-Chilling Sea
The Messy Reality of Forming New Habits
Why Cold Pizza Is (and Isn’t) the Perfect Ski Snack
Holiday Adventures Gone Wrong
The Real Magic We See in the Northern Lights
What Happens to Drivers Who Hit Cyclists
Weekend Read: The Supposed Dream Life of a Ski Patroller
Weekend Read: The Adventures of a Pony Named Legend
What it Takes to Survive a Winter War
Weekend Read: An SOS from the Middle of the Ocean
Humanity’s Most Confounding Survival Epic
Weekend Read: The Obsessive Dedication of the World’s Greatest Rock Skipper
Bear Grylls Wants to Talk About Your Mental Health
He Fought a Bear with a Pocketknife
A Perilous Chase on the Open Sea
What I Learned About Survival and Motherhood from Two Lambs
Paralyzed by a Scorpion in the Grand Canyon
The Unshakeable Spirit of the World’s Greatest Surfer
Why You Can’t Stop Watching Survival TV
Why Outdoor Sports Make You Cry
Why Outdoor Adventures Make You Crave a Giant, Juicy Burger
Summer Read: They Chose Death over Life Apart
The Obsessives Who Hunted Forrest Fenn’s Treasure
Summer Read: My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dream Job
How Viggo Mortensen Became a Cave-Diving Legend
Summer Read: A Mount Hood Tragedy We’ll Never Forget
A Frantic Escape from a Wildfire
Summer Read: Testing Love on the Open Sea
A Bold New Way to Poop in the Outdoors
Summer Read: A Little Boy Lost in the Woods
Bad Decisions, Good Stories
Summer Read: The Sinking of the ‘Henrietta C.’
How I Met Your Motherland
What it Feels Like to Fight a Wildfire
Jack Johnson Reaches for Hope
How Blockchain Technology Can Get Us Outside
Swimming for Your Life in the Open Ocean
How We Find Love in Wild Places
A Thriller from the Death Zone
The Many Ways Dogs Can Heal Us
What It Feels Like When You Eat a Deadly Mushroom
The Sometimes Shady, Always Weird World of Truffle Hunters
One Woman’s Wholesome Mission to Get Naked Outside
Learning to Listen to Wild Sounds
Is TikTok Motivating People to Get Outdoors?
Cheryl Strayed’s ‘Wild’ Decade
An Agonizing Endurance Race Around a Single City Block
How a Vigilante Botanist Became a Cult Icon
A Professional Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness
Can Nature Heal Heartbreak?
When Athletes Dare to Dream Like Artists
A Father’s Death in the Mountains—and What Came After
Olympics Special: The Doubts that Power Mikaela Shiffrin
What Surviving an Avalanche Can Teach You About Risk
To Save a Life on the North Shore
A Man, a Plan, a Steam Room
Who Killed the Ski Bum?
Forces of Good: So a Drag Queen Walks into a Mountain Town…
Forces of Good: Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament is on a Mission to Build Havens for Young Skateboarders
Forces of Good: Hiking 48,000 Miles to Create Community
Forces of Good: Running in the Name of Love
Forces of Good: Teaching the Psychology of Survival
Forces of Good: A Herculean Quest to Make a Difference
Forces of Good: The Gearhead Librarian Who Revived a Town
Forces of Good: A Comedian Faces Her Fear of Nature
Forces of Good: Getting All Bodies Outdoors
It Happened Deep in a Cave in the Amazon
Why We Love an Internet Dog
Forces of Good: W. Kamau Bell Seeks a United America
Finding Freedom Through Climbing
Nick Offerman Gets Down to Earth
The Musicians Capturing the Power of Wild Places
A Scientist Finds Her Way in the Rainforest
What the Mountains Teach Us About Patience
A Wild Ride into the Garden of Eden
When Wild Animals Misbehave
Why Thinking About Death Makes Us Happier
The Dumbest, Greatest Road Trip Ever
What It Takes to Be Alex Honnold’s Climbing Partner
Desperate Road Trippers Saved by…Instagram?
A Soldier’s Long Road Back from Afghanistan
A Runner’s Terrifying Fall—and What Came After
How to Date an Athlete
The Rattlesnake Bite That Changed Everything
The Stinky Truths About Your Sweat
Saved by Far-Flung Travel
The Many Upsides of Taking On Unreasonable Challenges
The Most Painful Record in Sports
A Pro Climber’s Coming-Out Story
The Adventures That Made a Super Dad
A Pro Climber and the Disorder that Brought Him Down to Earth
An Agonizingly Thirsty Crawl Through the Desert
Casting out of Darkness
Alone and Injured in the Wild
Running from the Truth
The Wild Trips That Transformed a Scientist
The Story Behind the Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt
A Quest to Expose the World’s Most Dangerous Frontier
When the Tornado Chased the Storm Chaser
A Journey to the Strange World Beyond Our Screens
An Elite Adventurer Reckons with Risk
An Appalachian Trail Horror Story
Biking the Iditarod in Search of Pain
Life and Death Among the Polar Bears
A Bold Plan to Make Pro Cycling Cool Again
When an Athlete Refuses to Be Broken
Embracing a Fear of Falling
How the Ski Bum Was Made
A Desperate Need for the Mountains
“It Was a Way to Keep His Spirit Alive”
Buried Alive—and Running Out of Time
A Climbing Disaster Interrupted by a Love Story
The Pure Joy of Bionic Skiing
A Veteran Surfer’s Big-Wave Nightmare
How a Surfer Survived Being Stranded in the Open Sea
Why Learning a New Skill Is So Good for You
Inside Emily Harrington's Triumph on El Capitan
Life Lessons from Elite Explorers
Tim Cook on Health and Fitness
Two Wild Trips with Surprisingly Happy Endings
How BASE Jumping Saved Jeb Corliss's Life
Latria Graham’s Love Letter to Black Adventurers
How a Fight over Trees Transformed American Politics
A Snowboarder's Quest to Get Out the Vote
The Climbers Speaking Up About Eating Disorders
How the Pandemic Is Teaching Us to Listen to Nature
A First-Time Hunter Gets a Lesson from #WomenWhoHunt
Changing How You Breathe Could Change Your Life
A Harebrained Dream of Building a Cabin in the Woods
What We Really Know About Life in Outer Space
Why Big Wild’s Songs Feel Like Adventures
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Wants YOU to Save the Planet
Trapped Underwater and Running Out of Air
The Dirty Awesome Truth About Summer Camp
That Time the Camp Snake Tried to Eat a Counselor
A Close Encounter with the Real Moby Dick
A Kayaker’s Brush with Death
Running While Black in New York
A Love Story Interrupted by a Bison Attack
How Kara Goucher Stood Up to Running's Goliath
The Filmmaker Who Cracked Open Lance Armstrong
What Happens to a Cyclist's Body When It's Hit by a Car
A Half-Baked Trip that Ended with a Magical Eclipse
The Switch in Your Brain That Turns Down Stress
Chased by a Jaguar in the Heart of the Amazon
Why You Desperately Want to Jump in a Lake
Is the Battle Over Nike’s Vaporfly Ruining Running?
An Unsettling Crime at the Top of the World
When 18 Tigers Were Let Loose in Zanesville, Ohio
What It’s Really Like Being on ‘Naked and Afraid’
The Dawn of a New Sports Bra Era
How Nature Heals an Injured Brain
What A.I. Hears in the Rainforest
A Tale of Two Dramatic Big-Wave Rescues
A Long-Shot Bid to Save the Monarch Butterfly
Ben Greenfield’s Radical Fitness Strategies
The Only Time It's OK to Jump Off a Chairlift
Seeking Magic and Solace in the Northern Lights
Rich Roll Is the Oprah of Endurance Sports
How a Ski Accident with My Daughter Changed Everything
How Kikkan Randall Keeps Coming Back
When Nature Gets Heavy Metal
Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi’s All-In Partnership
Getting Stung by the Nastiest Creatures on Earth
Richard Louv Wants You to Bond with Wild Animals
The Hardest Part of a Rescue Comes Later
When Our Podcast Host Shattered His Leg in a Canyon
The Curious Rise of Adult Recess Leagues
Why the Godfather of Barefoot Running Trains with a Donkey
A Wild Odyssey with the World’s Greatest Chef
Dispatches: The Wrong Way to Fight Off a Bear
Dispatches: Getting Past Our Fear of Great White Sharks
Science of Survival: Defending Your Home from a Raging Wildfire
The Outside Interview: David Epstein on Why the Best Athletes Like to Dabble and Frequently Quit
Dispatches: Doug Peacock on the Fight to Protect Grizzly Bears
Dispatches: Will Drinking a Gallon of Water a Day Make You Healthier?
Dispatches: This Is What a Runner Looks Like
Dispatches: Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
What Awe in Nature Does for Us
Dispatches: Bundyville, The Remnant
The Doctors Prescribing Nature
Sweat Science: The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Top Athletes
Why a Walk in the Woods Cures the Blues
Science of Survival: Snakebit, Part 2
The Radically Simple Digital Diet We All Need
Science of Survival: Snakebit, Part 1
Dispatches: Buried Treasure and Duct Tape
Dispatches: Bob Ross’s Strategies for Survival
Sweat Science: The Keto Conundrum
The Outside Interview: Bill McKibben on the End of Nature
Dispatches: Can You Outrun Anxiety?
The Outside Interview: Steven Rinella Wants Hunters and Hikers to Hold Hands
Dispatches: Sports Recovery Secrets from Scientists
The Outside Interview: Mindfulness for Peak Performance
Dispatches: The Mountain Bikers Fighting New Trails
Dispatches: Bianca Valenti Is on a Big Wave Mission
The Outside Interview: Using Pain to Reach Your Potential
Sweat Science: The 3100-Mile Run Around the Block
Dispatches: Can We Please Kill Off Crutches?
Sweat Science: Loving the Pain
Dispatches: What Dogs Really Think about Dog Gear
Sweat Science: Don’t Waste Your Breath
Dispatches: Can Nature Heal Our Deepest Wounds?
Sweat Science: The Pull-Up Artists
Dispatches: One Fork to Rule them All
Dispatches: Alex Honnold on “Free Solo”
Dispatches: Wild Thing
Science of Survival: Burnout
Science of Survival: The Future of Fire
Science of Survival: Fighting Fire with Fire
Science of Survival: The Sky is Burning
Dispatches: The Hidden Graves of Kuku Island
Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning
The Outside Interview: The Simple Secrets to Athletic Longevity
Dispatches: Shelma Jun Can Flash Foxy
Dispatches: Knox Robinson Crafts Running Culture
Dispatches: Ayesha McGowan Wants to Be First
Dispatches: Mikhail Martin is a Brother of Climbing
Dispatches: Bundyville
Dispatches: Kellee Edwards’s Story is a Trip
Dispatches: Alexi Pappas Dreams Like a Crazy and Runs Like One, Too
Science of Survival: A Very Old Man for a Wolf
Dispatches: The Woman Who Rides Mountains
Dispatches: Kris Tompkins’s 10-Million-Acre Life
Science of Survival: “F/V Destination, Do You Copy?”
Dispatches: Bear Grylls Will Never Give Up
Dispatches: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Creativity
Dispatches: An Amazingly Crappy Story
The Outside Interview: Your Hungry Brain is Making You Fat
Dispatches: Red Dawn in Lapland
The Outside Interview: Susan Casey Might Have Gills
Science of Survival: He That is Down Need Fear No Fall
The Outside Interview: The Whole Life Challenge Is Easier Than You Think
Science of Survival: Bee Still My Heart
Science of Survival: Dangerously Delicious
Dispatches: The Secret History of Biosphere 2
Science of Survival: Adrift
Science of Survival: Frozen Alive Redux
The Outside Interview: Can’t Hack It? Gene-Hack It
The Outside Interview: Doc Parsley Solves Your Sleep Crisis
Dispatches: Can Humans Outrun Antelope?
The Outside Interview: Dr. Michael Gervais on Mental Mastery
Dispatches: Captain Jackass
The Outside Interview: Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece on the Extreme Edge of Fitness
Dispatches: The Fine Art of Weaponizing Critters
Dispatches: Jack Johnson Loses His Cool
XX Factor: 1200 Miles on Blood Road
XX Factor: Vanessa Garrison Walks the Walk
Science of Survival: A Very Scary Fish Story
XX Factor: How the Sports Bra Changed History
Dispatches: Andy Samberg’s Tour de Farce
Science of Survival: Racing a Dying Brain
XX Factor: The Ice Queen Cometh
Science of Survival: Drinking Yourself to Death
XX Factor: Diana Nyad Goes the Distance
XX Factor: Snowboarding While Iranian
Science of Survival: Cloudbusters
Science of Survival: The Death Blow
XX Factor: A Woman’s Place is on Top
XX Factor: Beth Rodden Unpacked
Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 2
Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 1
Science of Survival: The Everest Effect
The Outside Interview: Florence Williams on The Nature Fix
Science of Survival: Treed by a Jaguar
Science of Survival: Line of Blood in the Sand
The Outside Interview: Mark Sundeen on the New Pioneers
Dispatches: Call of the Wild Things
The Outside Interview: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 3
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 2
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 1
Dispatches: National Parks Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Reverence
Dispatches: The Sound of Science
The Outside Interview: The Hard Lessons of Climbing Superstar Conrad Anker
The Outside Interview: The Secret History of Doping
The Outside Interview: Tim Ferriss Overshares
The Outside Interview: Jason Motlagh on the Darién Gap
The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton
Science of Survival: In Too Deep
Science of Survival: Under Pressure
Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part II
Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part I
Science of Survival BONUS: Whatever Happens, Happens
Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning
Science of Survival: Frozen Alive