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I had the chance to film a series of extreme stunt videos with Ford! For this video they gave me a Ford Explorer, and one tank a gas, to see what adventure we could go on. With this one we got some pro long boarders, and took over a mountain for the day!

The main five athletes used in this video are: Lauren Crepeau, Scott Rodgers, Brian Mosbaugh, Daniel Moore, Ryan Robinson and Creighton Baird

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Tom Choate, a 78-year-old climber who refers to himself as the Old Mountain Goat, became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, at 20,320 feet the highest mountain peak in North America.

It was the fifth time Choate had climbed “The High One,” having done so in 1963, 1983, 1993, 2003 and 2013, the most recent climb marking the 50th anniversary of being on a team of climbers that was the first to   …  Pictures and more

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Peppered with iron-hard crimps and delicate scoops, the massive Hollow Mountain Cave in the Grampians of Australia is the most stunning roof bouldering arena in the world. In 2011, BD Athlete James Kassay repeated the cave’s 70-move mega-line, Wheel Of Life, a V15 boulder problem that’s longer than most routes. But James’ affair with the line was far from over. His real goal was to add a more difficult direct finish, which he managed to pull off, with the cameras rolling, in November 2012.

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When asked why he went up there to die, he replied:
“I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.”

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