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The history of America is rife with rugged men and women who have explored and tested landscapes all over the world. Here are some of their stories.

• Climber Cory Richards was the first American to scale an over-26,000-foot (8,000-m) mountain in winter. Along with partners from Italy and Kazakhstan, Richards climbed the Gasherbrum II in Pakistan.

• Richards and his two partners faced hurricane-force winds and temperatures 50 degrees below zero. They performed this amazing feat without guides or supplemental oxygen.

• The three men were aware of the perils they faced before beginning the journey.

They were told that snow conditions would be unstable, but they couldn’t have foreseen the Class 4 avalanche that nearly killed them.

• It was Simone Moro, the veteran climber from Italy, who first freed himself, then helped the other two men dig out of the massive wall of ice.

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Americans’ Adventures (continued): • The footage that Richards took was used in a nature documentary called “Cold.”

The film chronicles their journey, the first successful attempt to climb the Pakistani peak during winter by anyone. The film played at a number of film festivals in 2011 and is being distributed by Forge Motion Pictures.

• Many runners have attempted to beat the time record for completing the entire Appalachian Trail. Observers were surprised to discover that the record had been broken by a female, Pharr Davis.

• Davis bested a record held by men for more than 40 years. Davis isn’t, by her own description, even a runner. She has always trained as a long-distance hiker, and her training to beat the record was the same.

• Davis completed the trail’s 2,181 miles more than 26 hours faster than the former record holder. The popular assumption before her attempt was that only a faster runner could beat the record, but Davis bucked the conventional wisdom. She began each day before 5 a.m., hiking for 16 hours a day and sleeping directly on the trail.

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• Nick Waggoner was an unknown film graduate from Colorado College when he began filming “Solitaire,” a documentary about his grueling ski odyssey through South America.

• Waggoner filmed over the course of two years with his three co-producers. The four men explored in far-flung locations such as the jungles along the Amazon River, the Cordillera Blanca, the Altiplano and windy Patagonia.

• Waggoner filmed on foot, on skis, on boats, on horseback and even while soaring through the sky on a paraglider.

He faced tough weather conditions throughout without any of the comforts of normal travel. He and his group lived out of tents in driving rain and snow, occasionally for weeks at a time.

• The motley crew often hiked thousands of miles in darkness before dawn to capture sunrise in these unspoiled vistas.

They scaled broken glaciers in search of breathtaking vistas and climbed mountains in excess of 17,000 feet.

• When Waggoner arrived in South America to start production on the film, he was greeted with terrible news.

His close friend and intended star of the documentary, extreme skier Arne Backstrom, had fallen and died while attempting to scale the 18,897-foot Nevado Pisco.

• “Solitaire” is Waggoner’s third project with his company, Sweetgrass Productions. He recently spent a season in Hokkaido, Japan, filming another upcoming nature documentary.

His acclaimed work in just three years has already won him awards, most recently at the International Freeski Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.

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America obviously doesn’t corner the market on men and woman of courage and adventurous spirit. Here are a few of the more interesting recent examples of our fellow explorers across the globe.

• Alastair Humphreys of the United Kingdom has ridden his bicycle over 46,000 miles in various locales around the world. Humphreys did this before he was 35 years old. He has also crossed Iceland’s glacial highlands entirely on foot and is planning what will be the longest journey to the South Pole ever attempted without support.

• After travelling nearly everywhere on the globe, Humphreys decided to see more of the country of his birth. He spent all of 2011 in Great Britain. He completed an ambitious group of “microadventures,” beginning and ending these trips at the front door of his home outside London.

• Among his explorations in 2011 was a hike up the M25, the well-known roadway that is notorious for having the worst traffic in the country. He also swam the Thames River, familiarized himself with the UK’s public transportation and spent several days living entirely off the land.

• Humphreys used social media to encourage his fellow adventurers to record video diaries of their own “microadventures.”

Through Twitter, he received a surprising number of responses, some from as far away as Japan.

• Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner recently became the only woman to summit all 14 of the peaks worldwide that measure over 26,000 feet (8,000 m). She completed the staggering feat in 2011, besting the K2 near the border of China and Pakistan.

• Kaltenbrunner had nearly gotten the record in 2010 on the very same mountain.

She was only 400 meters from the summit when tragedy struck. Her partner, mountaineer Fredrik Ericsson, slipped while climbing above her and tumbled below. Kaltenbrunner immediately abandoned her mission in an attempt to rescue her partner. Unfortunately, Ericsson’s injuries from the fall proved fatal.

• The tragic 2010 trip to K2 was Kaltenbrunner’s fifth attempt to scale the most dangerous peak on Earth. An infamous section of the K2 known as the “Bottleneck” claimed 11 lives in 2008 alone.

• Scottish bicyclist Danny MacAskill quit his job as a mechanic in 2009 so he could pursue riding full-time. Before, he would ride after work but felt he was falling short of his cycling dreams.

• In March of 2009, MacAskill had his roommate Dave Sowerby tag along and film as he performed a series of outrageous tricks around and across Edingburgh’s most famous landmarks.

• The video became a viral sensation, being viewed more than 27 million times!

• The feats that MacAskill performed on the video were so astounding that some viewers accused him of using special effects. MacAskill was inspired by the idea of creating physical puzzles using the landscape. His goal was to show how his bicycle could overcome seemingly impossible obstacles.

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