If you want to run in the footsteps of Sir Roger Bannister, who famously ran the world’s first sub-four-minute mile, Oxford University is the place to go. Sixty years ago, on May 6, 1954, the then-25–year-old medical student broke through the tape at 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds on the campus’s…

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Therm-a-Rest made the first self inflating mattress in 1971. Sleeping in the backcountry suddenly became way more comfortable and pleasurable for most campers. Next spring, the brand, which is part of Cascade Designs, claims it will radically improve your sleep again with a new collection of sleeping…

Outside magazine, July 1994 Kayaking: The World’s Only Class IV Ice Cube By Todd Balf (with Derek Rielly) This month a bush plane will deposit a four-member kayak team on the Barnes Ice Cap, at the geographic center of Canada’s Baffin Island. “Most think we’re insane,” says…

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