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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... Leer más...
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... Leer más...
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... Leer más...
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... Leer más...
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... Leer más...
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... Leer más...
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. Leer más...