Walking across deserts, jungles and tundra, Sarah Marquis is rewriting the rules of exploration.
Outside
Edited by Gloria Liu
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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
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower
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Taking Aim On The New Cold War
A backcountry ski journey through the minus 30 degree chill of the Arctic, in the company of nine U.S. military men training to face down Vladimir Putin’s Russian warriors.
Ski
Edited by Sam Berman. Photo by Heath Sandall.
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Candidate Kipsang
Kenyan marathon ace Wilson Kipsang runs for public office, amid accusations that he’s stealing votes.
ESPN
Edited by Rebecca Nordquist. Photographs by Georgina Goodwin.
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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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Rise of a Running Nation
Lon Myers was the greatest American runner of the nineteenth century and also a Sephardic Jew. In 1882, he ran a series of three one-on-one footraces against England’s best runner, Walter George, at the Polo Grounds, in New York City.
Runner’s World
Edited by Christine Fennessy. Illustrations by Bruce Emmet.
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No One Can Save Us Now But The Saints
On the cusp of the 2014 World Cup, a look the Mexican national soccer team, in all its sorrow and anguish.
2014 ESPN FC World Cup Guide
Edited by Rebecca Nordquist.
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