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Rell Sunn, Surfing’s Graceful Queen, Was as Tough They Come
Few people ever touch their particular corner of the world, culturally, geographically, or spiritually, like Hawaii’s Rell Sunn. She was, still i...
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Lean and Hard and Sunbrowned and Kind: A Reading of the Audrey Sutherland Story
If you're into women doing badass things on the water all by themselves, you gotta listen to this week’s Adventure Journal podcast, a special Hist...
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Natalia Molchanova, World’s Best Free Diver, Vanished During Final Dive
Assume a comfortable position. Now close your eyes, exhale slowly and steadily, then draw a long deep breath, completely filling your lungs—and h...
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Leon Crane Survived a Terrifying Plane Crash, Then 80 Days Alone in an Alaskan Winter
Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve is a land of river canyons, flatlands, and gently-sloping mountains due east of Fairbanks, smack in the mi...
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The Tour de France Winning Smuggler Who Saved Hundreds of Lives in WW2
Italian Gino Bartali is one of the all-time greatest road cyclists. If it hadn’t been for the Second World War and the obvious halt to grand tour...
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Louise Boyd, the ‘Ice Queen’ of Greenland, Spent Her Fortune on Adventure
If you were born into fabulous wealth with no real responsibilities, what would you do? Loaf around, wealthily, assuming your place at the top of...
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The Motorcycle Queen of Miami Was More than Fast Enough
To ride a motorcycle across the United States in the 1930s meant harsh riding over unforgiving dirt roads, careful planning for fuel and food, no...
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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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