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...youth, member of Poland's anti-Nazi underground, professor of philosophy and ethics, pastor with an unaffectedly common touch. On top of that he is more of an athlete and outdoorsman than any Pope in memory, one who loves to ski in Poland's Tatra Mountains, to kayak or canoe on the Mazurian Lakes, to climb mountains and hike...
...kayak carrying two 20-year-old men swept cleanly through Gate 16 as the pair jabbed their paddles into the water, trying to kill their momentum. Spotting the rock, they managed to go wide, but then their bow strayed and they were trapped in the eddy. Instantly, they pivoted broadside and swamped. On the shore, the crowd came to life, cheering them good-naturedly and whistling. Clinging to the capsized hull, the men were swept past the last four gates and across the finish line...
...Meat went right to his head. After only one roast boar he'd begin talking wildly about what he'd do to the Romans. I remember once, when two or three of us were aboard his five-man kayak on the Rhine, he stood up, shaking his leg of antelope, and boasted how he was going to get those effete unprintables! He had a carving knife in his free hand and this really sincere look in his eyes, and I don't know what would have happened if the kayak hadn't tipped over...
...where publicly owned park, monument and forest areas total more square miles than there are in Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware combined, oldtimers are beginning to feel crowded. However, there are more than a dozen aviation companies throughout the state that specialize in flying vacationers into remote areas for canoe, kayak, raft, backpacking, hiking or sheep-hunting trips. One such expedition was arranged by an Anchorage man and three friends from the Lower 48. After being dropped north of the Arctic Circle, they drifted on rubber rafts down the Noatak River to Kotzebue Sound in two weeks. "It was the most...
...milkman. He preferred to travel light, live like an Eskimo and depend on his ingenuity. On one expedition to the Antarctic he saved his ship from the ice by using the bodies of penguins as bumpers. He designed clever gear, including a sled that could be converted into a kayak...