Outside TV was founded by publisher Lawrence Burke and founding executive producer and executive vice president Les Guthman in 1994. Over the next ten years, it produced the "Outside Television Presents" TV series, whose production "Farther Than the Eye Can See," captured blind climber Erick Weihenmayer's historic ascension to the summit of Mount Everest. "Into the Tsangpo Gorge," produced by director and expedition leader Scott Lindgren, achieved the first whitewater descent of through the 18,000-ft.-deep Tsangpo Gorge (Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) in Tibet. "Into the Tsangpo Gorge" aired on NBC Sports in May 2002 and was Outside Magazine's cover story in July 2002.