Two hikers were recently rescued while climbing Mt. Whitney. They were carrying an absurd amount of gear – a glimpse of what ...

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In Disclaimer, the ascendant young actor – and internet obsession – put himself on everyone’s radars. He’s not letting it ...

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Authorities have charged two Coloradans for allegedly stealing historic artifacts from Canyonlands National Park in March ...

Corey Buhay is a freelance writer and editor based in Boulder, Colorado. You can read her work in Backpacker, Climbing, and ...

While day hiking, trail running, backpacking, and scrambling, OL writers and editors have put thousands of miles into testing the best hiking backpacks. When testing a pack, we focus on comfort, ...

The National Farmers' Federation, Australian Tourism Export Council and Backpacker and Youth Tourism Advisory Panel commissioned a report to highlight the potential impact. It calculated that if ...

For the longest time, backpackers wishing to call Australia home for multiple years have been required to complete mandatory regional work. But a proposed change to the government's migration ...

Content creator and adventurer Ben Frier, better known as Backpacker Ben, shared the harrowing story of the time he got stopped by the Taliban. Some of these include crashing a motorcycle on a ...

In theory, the film’s plot is simple. On a backpacking trip, a traveler named Gaukuen (Tsutomu Yamazaki) arrives in a sleepy Japanese village, a place he chose mostly because the name of a nearby lake ...

When I first started hiking and backpacking, I paid little regard to nutrition – just packed whatever was cheap, calorific, ...