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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Fixing Diane’s Brain
Diane Van Deren overcame epilepsy and then became a top ultramarathoner. Did her brain surgery help improve her pain tolerance, or is she just tough?
Runner’s World
Republished in Best American Sports Writing 2012.
Edited by Charlie Butler. Photograph by Evan Hurd.
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Wonder Boy
At the age of four, slum kid Budhia Singh ran 40 miles without stopping in the blistering heat of his native India. Then, afterwards, his childhood only grew stranger.
Runner’s World
Edited by Peter Flax. Photo by J. Carrier.
Republished in Going Long: The Best Stories from Runner’s World.
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Ways and Means
Russell Means is an American Indian activist and a movie star who played the last Mohican in Last of the Mohicans. In late 2007, he seceded from the United States, to launch The Republic of Lakotah. But is Lakotah an actual sovereign nation, or just a state of mind?
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photo by Hector Emanuel.
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Lost & Found
Social worker John Donovan was a monklike figure who lived alone in a succession of dingy $300-a-month apartments. Strange things transpired after he got lost and died in the high mountains of Southern California.
Backpacker
Edited by David Howard.
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Craig Rosebraugh’s War
For years, Craig Rosebraugh was the spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front, which burns down SUV dealerships and ski lifts in the name of eco-defense. When he changed jobs and opened a blue chip vegan restaurant, his inner anarchist never stopped working overtime.
Inc.
Edited by Dan Ferrara.
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End of the Run
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.
Outside
Edited by Laura Hohnhold. Photo by Michael Lewis.
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