Why would anyone want to find out how many rock climbs they can do in a 24-hour period? For fun, of course.
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Portrait of the Risk-Taker as a Young Man (or, There’s Something About Spencer)
In Victory Journal, Laura Yan profiles Spencer Seabrooke, who breaks world slacklining records walking across loosely tensioned, inch-wide pieces of polyester suspended hundreds of meters in the air.
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Never Die
Spencer Seabrooke wanted to break a slacklining record. The only problem was that if he failed, he’d die.
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How timing and creativity can reignite interest in a toy: Not long ago, three inventors—toiling at home, unaware of one another’s existence—set out to reimagine the pogo. What was so sacred about that ungainly steel coil? they wondered. Why couldn’t you make a pogo stick brawny enough for a 250-pound adult? And why not vault […]