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...DEGREES NORTH (Norway) Contestants race from Norway to the Arctic Circle. In extreme conditions. On foot. One trekker is voted off the glacier every two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Bites Back | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

Irene Munro, a doctoral student at the Divinity School and long-time Trekker, says that she was excited when a friend told her of this store...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Man From Atlantis Boldly Goes Where No Harvard Square Store Has Gone Before | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

Camp that night was in a high, alpine meadow at the base of 10,035-ft. Goat Peak. Alas, the hot tub at the hut there was broken. But dinner was an elegant beef bourguignon. Caryl showed the foresight of a veteran trekker, never mind kick turns, by pulling a bottle of Jack Daniel's out of her pack. Simmie Salembier, 42, a caterer from Los Angeles, turned out to have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hut, Two, Three, Four | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...basically modest man. He fervently admires talent in others. But fellow toilers who do not share his perfectionism and his passion for work fill him with injured bewilderment and anger; he reacts to any threat against complete artistic control of his work with the ferocity of a Boer trekker defending his oxen against the howling black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack, Be Nimble! | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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