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Everest and the end of terrestrial exploration…
May 1 marked the 50th anniversary of the American summit of Mt. Everest by James W. Whittaker along with Sherpa Nawang Gombu in 1963. This summit success was ten years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first ones to successfully summit the peak in May 1953. But Whittaker’s summit of Everest…
Straight ahead…
Walking and running are straight ahead activities. The path can twist and turn but the body follows the eyes’ line of sight. Look ahead walk ahead. Look up the hill run up the hill. Chaos is the antithesis. Run here than there. Turn. Stop. Spin around and go back. Left or right? No order.…
Running – from or to…
The act of running is quite natural. Almost all biped and quadruped animals do it. In the quadruped world though, running is a necessity. Hunting. Think cheetah, running in a burst of speed to kill its prey. Hunted. Think Thompson’s Gazelle, running, leaping really, to stay alive. When we see an animal running at top…
Walking Home – a short review
Walking Home by British poet and writer Simon Armitage is gaining popularity with current reviews in the New York Times (positive) and the Wall Street Journal (trending negative). And now here too. The author, a well known writer in England, walks the Pennine Way, a 270 mile north-south hike across the spine of England, following…
Walking through the Rift Valley…
We walk for utility- to get from here to there. We walk for exercise, for fun, to explore our surroundings. Journalist Paul Salopek documents the poorest of Ethiopia’s poor who set out to walk across a barren desert, leaving their country for neighboring poor countries in search of an existence minimally less bad than their…
The Iditarod 2013 is underway.
The true heroes of the Iditarod, a more than 1000 mile race across the frozen landscape of Alaska are the teams of 16 huskie dogs working together to pull their driver and sled. The dogs wear special booties on their paws to protect them from the ice, snow and rough frozen terrain along the way.…
That’s using your feet!
Walking around the world I would say is the ultimate way to use one’s feet. Walk through desert. Walk over mountain ranges. Walk through war zones. Walk through history, geography, geopolitics, anthropology, sociology. Walk through humankind. Paul Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist has begun his trek Out of Eden, the name of his project…
Get Fit, America
“PHIT America” is a new initiative to help Americans become more physically active and therefore more healthy. Spearheaded by the Sports & Fitness Industry Association and backed by companies including Sears, Dick’s Sporting Goods and the American College of Sports Medicine, PHIT America includes a call to be more physically fit and provides links on…
Cold toes (and fingers)?
As the weather turns colder people may experience episodes of painful cold toes and/or fingers after being out doors. If the pain is more than you would expect from simply being under-dressed for the cold weather and you begin to experience pain that lasts for a few hours and see that some of your toes…
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