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
Dispatches: National Parks Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ Reverence
John Muir rhapsodizing about Yosemite is one thing, but Outside contributing editor Ian Frazier has had it with people calling their favorite outdoor spots “cathedrals,” “shrines,” and “sacred spaces…
00:23:31 |
Wed 05 Oct 2016
Dispatches: The Sound of Science
Scientists are compiling huge amounts of data on the impact of global warming, but the story of that data often gets lost. Enter NikSawe, a researcher at Stanford who is transforming big data into mu…
00:23:57 |
Tue 20 Sep 2016
The Outside Interview: The Hard Lessons of Climbing Superstar Conrad Anker
For two decades, Conrad Anker has been at the forefront of climbing, evolving into America’s best all-around alpinist. With skills on rock, ice, and big peaks, he's now something of an elder statesme…
00:42:47 |
Wed 07 Sep 2016
The Outside Interview: The Secret History of Doping
Author Mark Johnson argues that performance enhancing drugs are hardly a recent phenomenon. In his new book, Spitting in the Soup, he traces doping all the way back to the 1904 Olympic marathon in St…
00:41:43 |
Wed 24 Aug 2016
The Outside Interview: Tim Ferriss Overshares
Tim Ferriss is many things. A bestselling author. A kickboxing champion. A horseback archer. The first American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango. He has built an enormous following…
00:47:12 |
Wed 10 Aug 2016
The Outside Interview: Jason Motlagh on the Darién Gap
Jason Motlagh and his crew were the first journalists in years to successfully cross the Darién Gap, a lawless, roadless jungle on the border of Colombia and Panama. Teeming with deadly snakes, drug …
00:43:36 |
Tue 26 Jul 2016
The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton
Robert Young Pelton has made a career of tracking down warlords and interviewing people in the most dangerous places in the world. He's been kidnapped in Colombia, survived an assassination attempt i…
00:45:12 |
Wed 13 Jul 2016
Science of Survival: In Too Deep
It could be one of the most incredible, yet perplexing, survival stories of all time: In 1991, a man named Michael Proudfoot was supposedly SCUBA diving on a shipwreck off the coast of Baja, Mexico, …
00:41:26 |
Tue 28 Jun 2016
Science of Survival: Under Pressure
When you’re stuck underwater in a submarine, the number of ways you can die is long and varied—crushing, burning, asphyxiation, exploding, the list goes on and on. Escaping alive requires maintaining…
00:16:28 |
Tue 14 Jun 2016
Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part II
For centuries, the Devil’s Highway—a waterless pathway through desert in southern Arizona—was one of the deadliest places in North America, killing thousands of Spanish conquistadors, gold prospector…
00:29:10 |
Tue 17 May 2016
Science of Survival: The Devil’s Highway, Part I
Thirst is an unpredictable threat. In its early stages, it’s much like mild hunger. For centuries, hydration was as much superstition as science. But historical events at Devil’s Highway—a notoriousl…
00:27:54 |
Tue 03 May 2016
Science of Survival BONUS: Whatever Happens, Happens
One of the most famous accidents in wingsuit history.
00:07:59 |
Tue 26 Apr 2016
Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning
Most of the time, when lightning makes the news, it’s because of an outlandish happening, seemingly too strange to be true. Like the park ranger who was struck seven times. Or the survivor who also w…
00:42:17 |
Mon 11 Apr 2016
Science of Survival: Frozen Alive
This thrilling re-creation of the classic hypothermia feature by Peter Stark brings the listener through a series of plausible mishaps on a bitterly cold night: a car accident on a lonely road, a bro…
00:30:11 |
Thu 24 Mar 2016
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