The author learns to trust the wisdom of his elders on a wildly jinxed motorcycle-mountaineering trip to Ecuador.
On a motorcycle trip to Italy, we learn it’s not when you arrive, but how, and it’s not what you bring, it’s how you pack it. Sponsored for EVERGOODS.
At The North Face Climbing Festival in London, I spoke with Stefano Ghisolfi, Fay Manners, Nathaniel Coleman, and others about their upcoming projects.
To Grammy-nominated violinist and activist Vijay Gupta, classical music was made for the streets.
Forget the 5.14 sufferfests. We asked elite athletes like Alex Honnold, Sasha DiGiulian, and Alex Megos to share the moderate lines they love.
Siebe Vanhee, Séan Villanueva O’Driscoll, and Symon Welfringer completed a first ascent two decades in the making. Now, Vanhee reveals the scariest moments and whether the 5,000-foot route was worth the risk.
On May 9, Konstantin Smirnov’s mountaineering guide abandoned him at 25,900 feet on the fifth-highest mountain on Earth. He's now taking the guide company to court.
Two Wyoming campers did everything right—keeping food out of their tents and using deterrents—but a black bear refused to back down.
Over intense opposition from the Havasupai Tribal Council, state officials quietly approved a request from the Pinyon Plain uranium mine to adjust acceptable levels of toxic chemicals in the mine’s monitoring well.
The Indian government has definitively identified the mountain's most famous dead body. Now comes the dangerous, expensive reality of hacking him out of the ice.
His writing has appeared in a diverse array of outdoor adventure, international travel, and environmental publications, including Climbing, Rock and Ice, Outside, Travel + Leisure, Backpacker, Summit Journal, Iron & Air, Mountain Gazette, Imagine5, and The Outdoor Journal. His work often focuses on the vertical world (technical rock and ice climbing, high-altitude mountaineering). Other areas of expertise include adventure motorcycling and long-distance trekking.
Owen has worked on contract for over 100 industry-leading outdoor brands, including The North Face, Arc’teryx, Black Diamond, REI, Mammut, Outdoor Research, Petzl, and La Sportiva, as well as industry nonprofits and mainstream organizations. Interested parties can find him on Upwork.
Currently, Owen is a regular contributor to the magazines Outside and Climbing and a contributing editor at Summit Journal. He also writes about motorcycle camping for Moto Camp Nerd, profiles classical musicians for the formalwear brand Coregami, writes copy for The Action Sports Translator, and is the American Alpine Journal “Climbs and Expeditions” editor for the nation of Brazil and the African continent. He is also an editor-at-large for the adventure travel booking platform The Outdoor Voyage and its companion website, The Outdoor Journal.
Owen founded the collaborative writing community Dead Foot Collective and currently serves as its editor-in-chief. He also authors the serialized dark fantasy tale VOID INJECTION.