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Colin Fletcher, the Father of Modern Backpacking
Lieutenant Colin Fletcher looked up from the soggy gray paper bags leaking ropy streams of yellow vomit into the bilge water swirling around his b...
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John Fairfax Wrestled Sharks, Rowed Across Oceans, Did a Little Gunfighting on the Side
Like a baccarat player holding his cards close to his tuxedo, the buttoned-down headline barely hints at the payout to come: “John Fairfax, Who Ro...
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Pioneering Travel Writer Ida Pfeiffer Was Not Afraid of Cannibals
If you’re in your mid-40s and feel it’s too late to follow your dreams of hardcore, on-a-shoestring international travel for months on end, well,...
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Earl Shaffer, the First Thru-Hiker of the AT, Embodied the Trail’s Soul
On April 4, 1948, 29-year-old Earl Shaffer shouldered a rucksack and started hiking near Mt. Oglethorpe in Georgia. He soon encountered a picnick...
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Minnie Mae Freeman Saved a Schoolroom Full of Children During One of the Country's Deadliest Blizzards on Record
It was called “The Children’s Blizzard.” A powerful, quick-moving snowstorm that blasted the American Midwest on January 12, 1888. It was one of t...
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Why'd They Call Him Snow Leopard? Because He Climbed Everest Without Oxygen 10 Times
Ang Rita Sherpa climbed Everest for the final time on May 23, 1996, alongside Göran Kropp, just days after the disaster that took the lives of ...
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How Rosalie Edge, the "Hawk of Mercy," Became the Conscience of American Conservation
Rosalie Barrow Edge was 52 years old and summering in Paris when she opened the pamphlet that ignited her second act as a conservationist fireb...
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Sonia Livanos Was 99 Pounds of Rock-Climbing Dynamite
At first look, Sonia Livanos seems an unlikely climbing hero. A 99-pound weekend warrior who was born and raised at sea level and climbed only wi...
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Don Flickinger Explored Jungles to Save Crashed WW2 Airmen
The Patkai mountains are small for the Himalaya: Only 12,552 feet at their highest. But on August 2nd 1943, they proved too mighty for U.S. Air T...
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Mt. Rainier Legend Dee Molenaar Was the Last ‘Brother of the Rope’
In early August 1953, the American Karakoram Expedition was hunkered at more than 25,200 feet on the Abruzzi Spur of K2, the highest unclimbed mo...
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Alfonsina Strada, The ‘Devil In A Dress’ Who Rode The World’s Toughest Tour
They don’t do bike races like they used to. Take the Giro d’Italia, one of the world’s longest and most prestigious stage races. Today, the race ...
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John Salathé, the Mystic Swiss Climber Who Changed Yosemite Forever
John Salathé, the first real icon of Yosemite climbing, didn’t see the valley for the first time until he was 46 years old. He’d just started clim...
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