Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
In a world where our time and attention are fractured into smaller and smaller bits, legendary biologist and runner Bernd Heinrich is a throwback, a man who has carved a deep grove in his patch of Maine woods.
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Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photo by Jesse Burke.
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When cyclist Danny Chew was 21, he resolved to ride his bike a million lifetime miles. Then, at age 54 and 783,000 miles into his quest, he crashed and became paralyzed.
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Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photograph by Michael Swensen.
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The Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area, in the stripmined hills of West Virginia, is the world’s premier all-terrain-vehicle playground—and oh, what a joy it is to ride there after midnight and toss your empties into the woods!
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Edited by Jay Stowe. Photos by Charles Gullung.
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Skier Bill Johnson won the gold medal in the downhill in the 1984 Olympics. Then in 1999, when he was 39 years old and ravaged by years of hard drinking, he tried to make a comeback. He crashed, incurring permanent brain damage.
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Edited by Laura Hohnhold. Photo by Michael Lewis.
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