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How extreme sports change you forever (it's NOT about endurance)
How extreme sports change you forever (it's NOT about endurance)
|Nate Explores
The free solo climb of El Capitan's Freerider route takes Alex Honnold roughly four hours. Three thousand feet of granite, no rope, no protection, no margin. Four hours. The average... Read more...
Best sports for endurance and what they all have in common
Best sports for endurance and what they all have in common
|Nate Explores
You are somewhere in the third hour of something hard. It does not matter which sport, exactly: the legs are heavy, the initial enthusiasm has long since burned off, and... Read more...
UTMB: What 171km around Mont Blanc teaches us about ourselves
UTMB: What 171km around Mont Blanc teaches us about ourselves
|Nate Explores
It is three in the morning somewhere above Courmayeur. The Italian Alps are invisible in the dark. You know they are there because your lungs are burning and the trail... Read more...
How Perdurance changes the way you move through the world
How Perdurance changes the way you move through the world
|Nate Explores
There is a distinction that every serious traveller feels but rarely articulates cleanly. It is the difference between moving through a place and being changed by it. Between consuming a... Read more...
Perdurance, ecology, and the world that outlasts us
Perdurance, ecology, and the world that outlasts us
|Nate Explores
We have been building this series around human beings, athletes, teams, brands and their relationship with time. But there is a dimension of perdurance that dwarfs all of these, one... Read more...
What it means for a brand to be Perdurant
What it means for a brand to be Perdurant
|Nate Explores
Over the past three weeks, we have been building a philosophical vocabulary around two ways of persisting through time. The individual athlete who is wholly present in each moment of... Read more...
The collective dimension of endurance and perdurance
The collective dimension of endurance and perdurance
|Nate Explores
The first two articles in this series have treated the athlete as a singular being, as one body, one self, one philosophical framework meeting one moment of difficulty. That was... Read more...
Pain through endurance and perdurance
Pain through endurance and perdurance
|Nate Explores
We recently drew a line between two ways of persisting through time: endurance, the total presence of a self in each moment, and perdurance, the understanding of the self as... Read more...
The body that holds vs. the self that stays
The body that holds vs. the self that stays
|Nate Explores
Endurance and Perdurance are two philosophical ideas separated by a syllable and a universe of meaning. In sport and adventure, both are constantly at play. Read more...