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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Coach, Remembered
Until he died at age 71, while rowing on a lake in Maine, my college cross country and track coach, Jim Wescott was a mentor and sensei to hundreds of athletes. Here’s an account of what it was like to run for him.
Colby Magazine
Edited by Gerry Boyle.
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The Long Way Home
Fourteen years ago, Karl Bushby set out to hike 36,000 miles across four continents. He’s still trying to get home.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photograph by Holly Wilmeth.
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