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Adventure & Endurance Sports

Adventure sports articles by Adam covering surfing, diving, mountaineering and more.

Maya Gabeira on the beach with her surfboard
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

The Biggest Wave Surfed This Year

Maya Gabeira didn’t just ride the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman. It was the biggest wave surfed by anyone in the 2019-20 winter season, a first for women in professional surfing.
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The Art of Adventure: Unleashing Your Inner Explorer

Embark on a journey of self-discovery and embrace the spirit of adventure.
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Bone-chilling temperatures, dramatic scenery and road trip interludes make the SCAR Swim a fan favorite in the niche sport of open water swimming.
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

An Unexpected Open Water Challenge: 40 Miles Across Arizona

On an 80-degree morning, a group of world-class swimmers stood in their Speedos and swim caps on a pebbly beach east of Phoenix.
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Lhakpa Sherpa, a quiet climbing pioneer, works at Whole Foods in West Hartford, Conn.Credit: Stan Godlewski for The New York Times
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

The Queen of Everest Trains While Working at Whole Foods

Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 10 times, the most ascents ever by a woman. She has no plans of slowing down.
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 free diver and shark
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

A Free Diver’s Training Partners: Sharks

Competitive free divers aim to go as deep as possible. But fun dives, even extreme ones, have always been intrinsic to the sport. Denis Grosmaire would know.
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Oz Pearlman, center, on his way toward breaking the Central Park loops record.
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

A Mentalist Sets a Central Park Running Record (Just as He Foresaw)

Oz Pearlman, better known as Oz the Mentalist, ran 19 loops of Central Park — 116 miles — in a single day.
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Kristian Blummenfelt participating in a wind tunnel testing session at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

Why Do They Swim-Bike-Run So Fast? Data.

The most advanced science in the triathlon world can be found in Norway, where athletes embrace the data found in heat sensors, oxygen measuring masks and their feces.
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From top left: Dawa Tenji Sherpa, Mingma G, Dawa Temba Sherpa and Pem Chiri Sherpa. From bottom left: Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Nirmal Purja and Geljen Sherpa. (Not pictured: Kilu Pemba Sherpa and Sona Sherpa.) Pool photo by Nimsdai
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Time

It was a prideful journey for the Nepalese climbers, who historically haven’t received their due.
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Alenka Artnik before the dive. Nanna Kreutzmann
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

She Dived More Than 300 Feet Under the Sea. Can She Go Deeper?

Alenka Artnik of Slovenia recently set a record in free diving. But her race to the bottom may not be over.
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Surfer on Maroubra Beach in Sydney
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

The Coronavirus Swell: Surf’s Up. Stay at Home

There’s also a widening schism between surfers able to get in the ocean and those forbidden from doing so.
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Scott Forrester sat on a training mat in a yard
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

Fitness Instructors Flock Online to Pump You Up

With widespread stay-at-home orders, they are using social media to stream their workouts. But many trainers are facing financial straits from a lack of paying clientele.
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Swimruuners - Some teams, but not all of them, use tethers. Teammates have to stay within 10 meters of each.
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

Swimrun, Sweden’s Island-to-Island Race, Comes to America

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Colin O’Brady and Louis Rudd are both trying to become the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unsupported. Tamara Merino for The New York Times
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

No One Has Ever Crossed Antarctica Unsupported. Two Men Are Trying Right Now.

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Natalia Molchanova greatest free diver in history diving
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

Free Diver Natalia Molchanova Descends for Fun, Then Vanishes

Natalia Molchanova, widely regarded as the greatest free diver in history, wore her favorite purple wet suit Sunday on a chartered boat off the coast of Formentera, an island near Ibiza.
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Nicholas Mevoli of Brooklyn competing in May in Hondura
New York Times
Adventure & Endurance Sports

A Deep-water Diver From Brooklyn Dies After Trying For A Record

Nicholas Mevoli of Brooklyn competing in May in Honduras, where he became the first American to free dive to 100 meters.
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