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November 5, 2018May 7, 2019 by Bill Donahue

Full Cleetus

Kale Poland is the progenitor of a new philosophy of physical fitness. “Cleetus Fit” eschews the gymnasium and sees practitioners hoisting large rocks, mud wrestling with cows, and sipping Pabst Blue Ribbon while seated in the Lotus position.

Outside
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July 29, 2018 by Bill Donahue

The Monk’s Tale

Remembering my Uncle Bill, a Catholic monk and a scholar who left the church to spend his last 30 years in the French Pyrenees, tending his garden and translating Thucydides from Greek into Latin.

Outside
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December 29, 2017November 14, 2019 by Bill Donahue

The Last Naturalist

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.

Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photo by Jesse Burke.

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January 20, 2017October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

The Messenger

Once a basketball phenom and a hiphop deejay, Suhaib Webb is now a Muslim cleric with a vast following among millennials and also a bone to pick with Donald J. Trump. 

The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photographs by Pete Marovich. 

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November 30, 2016October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Don’t Stop Now

At age 77, long distance hiker George “Billy Goat” Woodard has no fixed address and is forever walking in the wilderness or making his way to the wilderness—on trains, in friends’ cars, and sometimes by hitchhiking. 

Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Bob Stefko.

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November 30, 2016October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

The Million Mile Man

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. 

Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photograph by Michael Swensen.

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September 6, 2016October 10, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Refugee Runner

Yiech Pur Biel was born amid a civil war in South Sudan. Soldiers burned down his village, his parents left him, he grew up in a refugee camp. Now he’s readying to compete in the Olympics.

ESPN
Edited by Vic Seper. Photographs by Georgina Goodwin.

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June 10, 2015December 8, 2021 by Bill Donahue

Booze, Guns, and Poetry

Arkansas poet Frank Stanford killed himself in 1978, at the age  of 29. Today, novelist Michael Ondaatje calls his work “the most overlooked writing I know.” A look at a great Southern genius.

Men’s Journal
Edited by Larry Kanter. Photograph by Ginny Stanford.

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June 10, 2015May 26, 2021 by Bill Donahue

Kindergarten Can Wait

At age 5, Christian Thomas Geiger hiked the Appalachian Trail, all 2,180 miles of it, with his mother and stepdad. Was this an act of child abuse? 

Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Brown W. Cannon III.
Gold Medal winner, Adventure Travel, 2016 Lowell Thomas Awards.

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