Sublime

Fusing the laws of the ocean with proven sports science theories, I was the fastest and laziest swimmer in Great Britain that day.

E7, the bird whose satellite track revealed an impressive 7,396-mile nonstop flight, didn’t attain fame because she did anything particularly unique for a bar-tailed godwit, but because she showed us how remarkable the usual can be.

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth. Here, perhaps, was an even stranger sea—not circular, but cylindrical.

waded thigh-deep into the frigid loch. The cold made a castrato out of him; it made him want to sing.

Late in the month Mugs Stump crossed paths with Waterman on the upper Ruth Glacier. Stump, an alpinist of world renown who died on Denali in 1992, had just completed a difficult new route on a nearby peak, the Mooses Tooth.

Cet homme qui pourrait être leur père et même, pour les plus jeunes, leur grand-père, a mené la vie d’aventurier dont tout le monde rêve à vingt ans, c’est une légende vivante, et le cœur de cette légende, ce qui leur donne à tous l’envie de l’imiter, c’est l’héroïsme cool dont il a fait preuve durant son incarcération. Il a été à Lefortovo, la