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Need to Know
Almost always, hiring a guide helps ensure your safety. But what happens when guides make mistakes? BY JAMES VLAHOS
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Forum: Guide or Lifeguard
Should outfitters be fully responsible for their clients's safety?
Then & There
The event was the first ever tow-in World Cup surf contest. The venue was a 60-foot [18-meter] wave called Jaws. The contestants were ... scared.
Doing It
Meet Kim Csizmazia, who became ice climbing's world champion just four years after she started the sport, then retired to pursue purer thrills.
Potentially Huge
Mountainboarders can carve turns, bomb down black-diamond steeps, and stick jumps just about anywhere there's not snow.
In the Field
Yeager-meisters: Two daredevils race to break the speed of sound—without a plane. Inside the world of extreme skydiving.
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TRIPS
American Wilds
Believe the hype: The White Rim Trail, which rolls through a maze of desert and rock in Canyonlands National Park, is one of mountain biking's greatest routes. BY STEVE CASIMIRO
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Photo Gallery: Moab's Greatest Ride
Witness the grandeur of the White Rim Trail—without the fatigue.
Frontiers
A network of new camping platforms is making it much easier to paddle the spookily cool swamps of North Carolina.
Fast Breaks
Mediterranean mania: Ride world-class singletrack, sea kayak to hidden beaches, raft past limestone cliffs.
World on the Cheap
Laos has crags, waterfalls, hill-tribe villages—and few tourists.
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Where Next
Nepal opens new peaks, Morocco and China get hot, and more.
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COLUMNS
Books
A portrait of polar pioneer Apsley Cherry-Garrard in Sara Wheeler's Cherry and the race for the (malaria) cure in Mark Honigsbaum's The Fever Trail. BY ANTHONY BRANDT
The Life
Belize's jungles conceal ruins, renegades, and wildcats—and the secrets of one family's past. BY DAN KOEPPEL
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GEAR
Camping
Weight watchers, skip this. Everyone else: Check out these seven essentials for campsite decadence. BY BEN HEWITT
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Footwear
Split-personality shoes: Sandals you can run in, climbing slippers you can hike in, and go-anywhere canyoneering shoes.
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What They Carry
With a ninja-meets-trapeze-artist setup, arboreal scientist Roman Dial can scale some of the world's tallest trees.
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