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Lindsey Vonn
Diana Nyad
Mira Rai
Emily Erickson
Erin Trieb
Melissa Arnot
Abby Wambach
Garrison & Dixon
Tara Houska
Lindsey Vonn
The best ski racer who ever lived, with 77 World Cup wins, 9 Olympic and World Championship medals, and four overall World Cup titles.
Diana Nyad
Nyad鈥檚 110-mile swim from Cuba to Key West places her firmly in the pantheon of ultra-endurance athletes.
Our May cover features 10 women impacting the outdoor world. These are the moments that shaped them.
Mira Rai
Raised in an eastern-Nepal village, Rai hiked barefoot with her mother, sometimes for 14 hours, to buy rice and bring it home to sell.
Emily Erickson
Erickson鈥檚 introduction to surfing began at Sunset Beach on Oahu鈥檚 North Shore, which some would argue is like starting your climbing career on Mount Everest.
Erin Trieb
Trieb covers conflict and social issues through photography, frequently embedding with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
Melissa Arnot
Arnot has summited Everest six times: her most recent ascent, last spring, was without the aid of supplemental oxygen鈥攕omething that only 165 people have done.
Abby Wambach
The soccer star has two Olympic gold medals, one World Cup title, more goals than any player in international competition.
Garrison & Dixon
When Vanessa Garrison and Morgan Dixon cofounded GirlTrek in 2012, they had one goal: get women walking for 30 minutes a day. Now 100,000 walkers strong, GirlTrek is a national force.
Tara Houska
Houska doesn't believe we can separate environmental and social injustice. “You don鈥檛 see a pipeline going through Beverly Hills,” she says.
Exclusives
In This Issue
Beth Rodden on Her Kidnapping, Motherhood, and Climbing
After bursting onto the scene as a teenage gym rat, Beth Rodden became one of the most accomplished climbers of all time. Here, for the first time, she opens up about the price of perfectionism, the kidnapping that almost grounded her, and balancing motherhood and rock.
Read More →The Longer the Race, the Stronger We Get
In some of the world's most brutal endurance events, women are leading the pack, boosted by mental stamina and the grit to suffer hard.
Read More →The Best Women鈥檚 Running Gear
We all run, surf, bike, fish...At last, outdoor brands are giving both genders the performance tools we need.
Read More →We Hear You, Ladies
During our 40th anniversary year, for May we produced an issue celebrating the unapologetic, fierce women in the world 黑料吃瓜网鈥攖hose who live bravely, chase dreams, knock down barriers, and trail blaze the way to a better future for us all. May is just the beginning of much more women's coverage to come.
Read More →Going It Alone
Like many through-hikers, Rahawa Haile quit her job, ended her relationship, and set out from Georgia on the long walk north. She sought peace in the wilderness and nursed her aching feet. But the AT can be a lonely experience when you're solo, female, and black.
Read More →The Girl Scouts Is Raising Our Next Generation of Rippers
Today's Girl Scouts bring in $800 million from all those Tagalongs and Thin Mints. And thanks to a renewed emphasis on the outdoors, more and more of them are taking risks, having adventures, and building the self-confidence that comes from getting outside.
Read More →We Have Found the Cure! (Sort Of...)
Spa treatments have gotten wild in recent years, especially in Southern California, where women pay big bucks for radical remedies like colonics, juice fasts, and a Gwyneth Paltrow face鈥攖he life-changing V-stream. Taffy Brodesser-Akner dons a satin robe and asks: If this is the path to happiness, why am I so freaked out?
Read More →An Oral History of the First U.S. Ascent of Annapurna (Oh Yeah, and It Happened to Be the First Female Ascent, Too)
At a time when men still believed that the “weaker sex” were inferior climbers on 8,000-meter peaks, American Arlene Blum led a 1978 expedition up the 26,545-foot Himalayan peak. The team saw triumph and tragedy, lost two climbers, and sparked a controversy that lingers today.
Read More →Life Advice from Columbia鈥檚 93-Year-Old Chairwoman Gert Boyle
Three decades after Gert Boyle launched the hugely successful One Tough Mother ad campaign, the German immigrant, who moved to Oregon during Hitler鈥檚 rise, is as opinionated as ever.
Read More →Seven of the World鈥檚 Most Impressive Outdoor Feats
A look back at some of the most storied accomplishments by women athletes and adventurers over the past 100 years.
Read More →State of the Art
Since joining 黑料吃瓜网 in 2001, McCaughey has designed 224 covers, 1,120 feature stories, and thousands of other pages.
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