Wes Siler is your guide to leading a more exciting life in the great outdoors. As Outside’s outdoor lifestyle columnist, he writes about the intersections of science, news, politics, gear, vehicles ...

I love outdoor survival shows, and over the past decade have watched far too many episodes of Alone, Naked and Afraid, and of course Survivor, to count. In 2023, I was excited to see Netflix launch ...

Our National Parks columnist took an ‘Alone’-inspired course. These are the four wildest National Parks where he's putting his survival skills to the test. Here’s the hypothetical scenario: You find ...

When you're heading outdoors, you can never be too prepared—and that includes having the right survival knife on hand at all times. No one wants to find themselves in a life-or-death scenario in the ...

The third annual PNW Survival Games kick off this Friday at a campground in Molalla. Fifty people, organized into teams of two, will compete in a series of weekend-long challenges designed to test ...

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A woman was rescued from a Michigan forest after vanishing during a YouTube outdoor survival challenge, officials said. The 36-year-old California woman was competing in a survival contest in the ...

For more than a century, Outdoor Life has been telling stories from the wilderness. Some of these tales are triumphant, some are funny, but others are much more serious. In all of that good writing ...

Outsidemagazine and Public Radio Exchange (PRX) have teamed up to launch a podcast called “Science of Survival,” the first series of the magazine’s new Outside Podcast. Each episode is inspired by a ...