Bivvy: A small, tent-like shelter used by anglers for overnight fishing trips. Hydrostatic head: A measure of how waterproof a fabric is. The higher the hydrostatic head, the more waterproof the ...

Pioneering Pensioners' Mick Fowler and Vic Saunders speak about balancing family and climbing, their most miserable bivy, and ...

Within 24 hours of his arrival at Trails Carolina, he was dead. The boy suffocated in a bivvy bag, a type of one-person tent, after counselors refused to let him out. They said they did not hear ...

McKinley witnessed two pivotal moments in mountaineering history. This is Part 1, the story of McKinley's first winter ascent ...

The harlequin gecko does many things that seem high risk. It stays stock still whenever it’s cold. It lives in extreme slow ...

However, a lightweight bivy can double as a piece of emergency gear on a day hike, and be a substitute for carrying a tent on a backpacking or fastpacking trip, so it’s not without versatility either.

I was sleeping in a bivy sack next to Bobby ... Good bear-avoidance practices such as storing food away from your tent still apply. No matter how scary a bear charge might get, you and your ...

Motorcycle camping tents are a home away from home that can be carried on your touring bike on any self-sufficient motorcycle camping adventure. It’s where you rest your weary head after a day ...

These five places in California's wilderness are jaw-droppingly beautiful but stealthily treacherous, taking the lives of ...

The Trump administration has halted efforts to place migrants in tent structures built at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid concerns that the emerging facilities don’t meet detention standards because ...