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Outside magazine, February 1996


Review: Hardware and Software

Travel Luggage That Can Take It--All
Rugged duffels, gear bags, and convertible packs that hold everything you think you might need
By Bob Howells

Buying Right: Something Extra for the Road
By Bob Howells

Fly Fishing: Hooked on Fly Tying
By Donovan Webster

Alpine Skiing: The K2 Four
By Will Gadd

Books: The Feral Son
Reviews by Miles Harvey

  • Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
  • Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings, by Virginia Morell
  • The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind, by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin