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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 415
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
XX Factor: The Ice Queen Cometh
You hear about how the Arctic changes people—how it can lead them to lose their minds a little bit, or make dumb mistakes. Then there are those adventurers like Sarah McNair-Landry who are at their b…
00:23:36 |
Tue 13 Jun 2017
Science of Survival: Drinking Yourself to Death
Water is life, we’re told. But what if you drink too much? As it turns out, there’s a little-discussed flipside to dehydration called hyponatremia—and it's been on the rise, killing athletes and othe…
00:33:06 |
Tue 30 May 2017
XX Factor: Diana Nyad Goes the Distance
What does it take to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage? According to Diana Nyad, the answer is passion bordering on obsession. Nyad first attempted the 111-mile crossing in 1978. Thirty-…
00:27:56 |
Wed 17 May 2017
XX Factor: Snowboarding While Iranian
Mona Seraji is the first snowboarder from the Middle East to compete professionally in the Freeride World Qualifier, a series of big-mountain events that attract the best riders in the world. She's a…
00:35:40 |
Tue 02 May 2017
Science of Survival: Cloudbusters
Human beings spent centuries trying to control the weather. Then, about 70 years ago, we figured out the basics of what it takes to make it rain. Now, we're controlling more weather than you might th…
00:32:34 |
Wed 26 Apr 2017
Science of Survival: The Death Blow
Science can’t fully explain why and how tornadoes form. But on May 31, 2013, all the factors we do understand pointed towards off-the-charts risk in central Oklahoma. Hundreds of amateur storm chaser…
00:38:34 |
Wed 19 Apr 2017
XX Factor: A Woman’s Place is on Top
Back when men still believed the “weaker sex” were inferior climbers, Arlene Blum led a women’s ascent of Annapurna, the world’s tenth-highest peak. The 1978 climb put the first women—and first Ameri…
00:30:43 |
Wed 12 Apr 2017
XX Factor: Beth Rodden Unpacked
In the 1990s, Beth Rodden was a climbing prodigy, celebrated for her athletic gifts and unwavering discipline. Then, while on an expedition in Central Asia in 2000, she and her small team of friends …
00:27:44 |
Wed 05 Apr 2017
Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 2
Once Joe Stone learned how to use his paralyzed body, he immediately set an audacious goal: he would race in an Ironman triathlon—despite the fact that no quadriplegic athlete had ever attempted the …
00:46:55 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Science of Survival: After the Crash, Part 1
Joe Stone doesn’t do anything halfway. Back when he was a skater, he went big. When he partied, he went hard. When he took up skydiving and speed-flying, he flew almost every day. Then one day he cra…
00:46:26 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Science of Survival: The Everest Effect
On the morning of May 25, 2006, Myles Osborne was poised to become one of the last climbers of the season to summit Mount Everest. The weather was perfect, and it seemed nothing would stop his team.…
00:34:06 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
The Outside Interview: Florence Williams on The Nature Fix
What’s the cure for our modern malaise of stress, distraction, and screen addiction? Nature, of course. But while many people advocate the benefits of getting outside, we are only just beginning to u…
00:34:41 |
Tue 21 Feb 2017
Science of Survival: Treed by a Jaguar
In the summer of 1970, Ed Welch and Bruce Frey put in a canoe at the headwaters of the Amazon and shoved off into the current. Their only plan was to travel downstream until it wasn’t fun anymore. Th…
00:29:26 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
Science of Survival: Line of Blood in the Sand
Denmark's rugged Faroe Islands are known for sheep, rowboats, and a brutal tradition called “The Grind” in which Faroese men butcher hundreds of pilot whales by hand, on the beach, in full view of lo…
00:23:26 |
Tue 24 Jan 2017
The Outside Interview: Mark Sundeen on the New Pioneers
Writer Mark Sundeen spent the last three years chronicling the lives of three couples who have dropped out of mainstream society, trading cars, technology, and electricity for freedom and hard work o…
00:37:19 |
Tue 10 Jan 2017
Dispatches: Call of the Wild Things
Wolf howls, bird songs, crickets, frogs—soundscapes contain clues to not only what's going on around us but also who we are. Not just as individuals, but as human beings. Or at least, that's what Ber…
00:25:50 |
Tue 13 Dec 2016
The Outside Interview: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell
“If you're not at the table, you're on the menu,” says Sally Jewell. Hopeful, thoughtful, slightly ticked-off, and surprisingly emotional, the outgoing Secretary of the Interior talks with Outside ed…
00:43:00 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 3
Dan Futrell and Isaac Stonerand are back from searching through the wreckage of Eastern Airlines Flight 980 on a remote mountain in Bolivia, and their findings have prompted a whole new set of quest…
00:41:59 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 2
Since colliding with a Bolivian mountain in 1985, Eastern Airlines Flight 980 has been frozen inside a glacier perched on the edge of a 3,000-foot drop. With wreckage now melting out of the ice at th…
00:39:57 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Science of Survival: Cliffhanger, Part 1
Since colliding into a Bolivian mountain in 1985, Eastern Airlines Flight 980 has been frozen inside a glacier perched on the edge of a 3,000-foot drop. With wreckage now melting out of ice at the ba…
00:34:13 |
Tue 18 Oct 2016
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