Unmasking the painful tearful stirring obsession of endurance athletes
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Unmasking the painful, tearful, stirring obsession of endurance athletes
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alt="A runner negotiates the beautiful landscape of Hong Kong in the film Four Trails, which is based on a 298km endurance challenge. "/>A runner negotiates the beautiful landscape of Hong Kong in the film Four Trails, which is based on a 298km endurance challenge.
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alt=avatar-alt/>Rohit Brijnath
Sporting LifeA sailor stitches his gashed tongue during a solo sailing race where no assistance is allowed. An adventurer loses seven toenails while crossing 1,600km of the Gobi desert. A climber on the wall of the Eiger sleeps on a foot-wide ledge and claws up rock the next day with bleeding fingers.
Out in the “untamed world” of nature, as the mountaineer Reinhold Messner described it, exists a tribe of humans who examine themselves. The geography that their expeditions explore includes not just areas of the planet but the unknown spaces within themselves.
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