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This story originally appeared in The Inertia.
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The Victorian era saw wave after wave of talented...
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Long-Distance Legend: Meet the Man Who Skateboarded Across the U.S. 5 Times
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Yann Busnel is attempting to travel "the longest land...
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Record for Solo, Unsupported Winter Bob Graham Round Broken Twice in a Day
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Six Young Guides Make First Ski Descents in Central Nepal
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Polish Climbers Share Details of New Chobutse Route
This fall, Wadim Jablonski and Maciej Kimel of Poland...
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Piolet d'Or winners Zdenek Hak and Radoslav Groh have...
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Christian Black, Vitaliy Musiyenko, and Hayden Wyatt of the...
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Mark Dickey has emerged from the Turkish cave that...
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In this series, we look at the world's five...
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