The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from James Carroll, Cecilia D’Anastasio, Ben Steverman, Eva Holland, and Ian Brown.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Drew Magary, Amy Wallace, Leif Reigstad, Pam Houston, and Ziya Tong.
‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jayson Greene, Theresa Breuer, Christa Parravani, Alexandra Kimball, and Casey Taylor.
Where the Men are Scarier than the Minefield on the Mountain By Krista Stevens Highlight “No longer should women feel weak.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, Jen Gann, Christine H. Lee, John Birdsall, and Anna Callaghan.
Maintaining Mental Health as a Rescuer in the Grand Tetons By Krista Stevens Highlight “What was important was that each of us had been there; we all, in another way, had blood on our hands—we had all shared the same experiences. We needed each other.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Parks, Cathy Newman, Zach Baron, Molly Priddy, and Christopher Solomon.
‘I Don’t Know What Else to Do. So I Run.’ By Krista Stevens Highlight “You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”
The Chance of a Lifetime By Krista Stevens Highlight If you had one chance at the adventure of a lifetime, would you go despite the dangers?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Ethan Watters, Rachel Monroe, Barry Yeoman, Tom Scocca, and Sarah Gailey.
It was Mr. Henthorn on the Cliff with a Swift Shove By Krista Stevens Highlight Oh, your first wife died in a freak accident too?
What should we do this weekend, go to the movies or sail a handmade raft to Polynesia? By Michelle Weber Highlight Don McIntyre is not a man who shies away from a challenge — an understatement if there ever was one.
Meet Spitty, the Whippet Who Holds Five World Records By Krista Stevens Highlight “Science has proven the impossibility of the human brain to register self-pity, or maunder on about the generally sorry state of things, while in the presence of canine bellyflops.”
Russian River Roulette By Michelle Weber Highlight Even when you’re already bracing for a negative response, no one expects an attack golfer.
Polar Exploration: The Story of Pain By Krista Stevens Highlight It’s -40F. Your mission? Travel 20 miles back to town on skinny skis while pulling a heavy sled over the frozen earth. Oh, by the way — you have 72 hours or you fail the exam.
An Oregon Wolf, Profiled By Ben Huberman Highlight A fateful encounter between Oregon’s mightiest wolf and the scientist who would track him for the next six years.
The Wolf In a Puffy Marmot Jacket By Krista Stevens Highlight Even when his tall tales became erratic, women still didn’t want to believe Jeff Caldwell was ripping them off.
How Patagonia Continues to Operate As a Model of Responsible Capitalism By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight With America’s public lands and the world’s climate under attack, the outdoor industry needs leaders more than ever and Patagonia is out in front.
Now Airbnb is Wrecking Mountain Towns, Too By Pam Mandel Highlight Short-term rentals are affecting the character of places like Bozeman, Boise, and Crested Butte.
America’s Great Lake, or the Greatest Lake? By Pam Mandel Commentary At Outside, Stephanie Pearson explores Lake Superior’s extreme history, expanse, diversity, and dangers.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Alec MacGillis, Justin Heckert, Peter Vigneron, Michael Lista, and Anthony Breznican.
The Great, Ongoing California Nut Caper By Krista Stevens Highlight At Outside, Peter Vigneron reports on a spree of nut heists thought to be linked to a Russian organized-crime ring.
How Thieves Are Stealing 6500-Ton Ships Off the Sea Floor By Krista Stevens Highlight In a bid for valuable scrap metal, pirate divers have stolen entire sunken ships.
Queer and Black and Hiking the Appalachian Trail: Rahawa Haile on Going it Alone By Krista Stevens Highlight In hiking the Appalachian Trail solo as a queer black woman, Rahawa Haile wants “to be a role model to black women who are interested in the outdoors, including myself.”
24-Hour Competitive Rock Climbing: Finger Tips as Rough as Rhino Skin By Krista Stevens Highlight Why would anyone want to find out how many rock climbs they can do in a 24-hour period? For fun, of course.
Searching for the Lost on Public Land By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight At Outside, the disappearance of a teenage runner in Colorado brings up the question: Who searches for the people who disappear on American public lands?
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories by Elizabeth Weil, Michael Hobbes, J. Oliver Conroy, Bob Shacochis, and Ben Schreckinger.
Our Temporary Homes: A Reading List About Hotels By Emily Perper Reading List These essays and the others stories in this list will take you all over the world, to the hotels we call our temporary homes.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
