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A Jungle Eco-Battle

Outside Magazine
August 25, 2014

In the 1970s and 1980s, Texaco extracted more than a billion barrels of oil from the Ecuadorean rainforest but spilled an estimated 400,000. In 1993, locals filed a class action against the company. That case is ongoing—it’s a legal version of the Amazon, serpentine ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on August 25, 2014January 31, 2021Categories Article, Oil, Outside

Slick: Steven Donziger Is Putting It to Big Oil

Outside Magazine
March 2007

The Front for the Defense of the Amazon, like any progressive group whose name includes front and defense, is a no-frills outfit with ample supplies of devotion and very little clout. Its opponents are, in size and power, what elephants are to gnats. They include Chevron ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on March 1, 2007January 31, 2021Categories Article, Oil, OutsideTags Peter Handke

The Race to Baghdad

A quarter of a million Americans took a trip in March 2003. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn't come back.

The Race to Baghdad

A quarter of a million Americans took a trip in March 2003. It was noisy, hot, and violent. Accommodations were poor. Some of them didn't come back.

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 2, 2003March 15, 2023Categories Article, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Outside

Climbing Lessons from the School of Tomaz Humar

Outside Magazine
June 2002

My chakras are shot. I know because Tomaz Humar has just checked them.

We’re getting ready for a hike in Slovenia’s Kamnik-Savinja Alps, sitting in Tomaz’s Volkswagen Golf in a patch of forest below the limestone face of 6,014-foot Mount Rzenik, where Tomaz ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on June 2, 2002January 31, 2021Categories Article, Outside

Another Day in the Drop Zone

Outside Magazine
July 2000

BAIDOA, SOMALIA

“Salat! Salat!”

The call to prayer came at 4:30 a.m.

“Pray! Pray! It’s better to pray than to sleep!”

I was staying in a house across the street from one of Baidoa’s mosques, so there was no chance of dozing. As the echoes ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 2, 2000January 31, 2021Categories Africa, Article, Outside

I Am Elena. You Will Fly Now.

Outside Magazine
July 1999

Elena Klimovich is tying me down. She tightens the straps around my hips, fastens the cords that pin my shoulders in place, and then uses a small winch to eliminate the few millimeters of slack that escaped her attention. I try to stay calm, but this is difficult under the ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 2, 1999January 31, 2021Categories Article, Outside

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