climber, photographer
climber
Climber, Photographer
filmmaker
mountaineer
mountaineer
climber,
conservationist
Big-Wave Surfer, Waterman
balloonist, entrepreneur
Nepalese helicopter pilot
polar explorer
explorer, conservationist
war photographer
Snowboarder, Activist
Everyman Explorer
Pulitzer Prize winning author
blind climber and kayaker
long-distance explorer
expedition climber
Polar Explorer
skier,
BASE jumper
Expedition Kayaker
climber,
wingsuit pilot
BASE jumper, helicopter pilot
explorer
Nachvak River in Labrador, Canada
(Photo by Ben Marr, courtesy Eddie Bauer)
A first descent in Greenland.
(Photo by Sarah McNair-Landry, courtesy Eddie Bauer)
Crossing Dahangdam bridge over the Maykha River in Myanmar (Photo by Chris Korbulic, courtesy Eddie Bauer)
Trying out a local bamboo board in Myanmar
(Photo by Chris Korbulic, courtesy Eddie Bauer)
“I think that drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers,
but they didn’t get the opportunity to find it.”
(Photo by Ruven Afanador)
Chin’s 2015 documentary, ‘Meru,’ won the U.S. Audience Documentary Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
(Courtesy The North Face)
“Fears that I have: losing passion and creativity and just kind
of floating through life.” (Photo by Mikey Schaefer)
“If you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving
forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.”
(Photo by Credit Leslie Lee / Getty Images)
Branson made four attempts at circumnavigating the world in a hot-air balloon but gave up in 1999 (Courtesy Richard Branson)
Diving in the Cayman Island.
(Courtesy Richard Branson)
Bungee jumping off the Palms Hotel Casino in Las Vegas
to celebrate the launch of Virgin America in 2007.
(Photo by Denise Truscello / Getty Images)
These three share one major trait — an outsize
drive that pushes them beyond the known limits.
Stookesberry in the early ‘80s.
(Courtesy Ben Stookesberry)
“For some fucked-up reason, I’m able to stay with the suffering … and keep going.” (Courtesy Ben Stookesberry)
“I had a problem with authority.”
(Courtesy Jimmy Chin)
Chin as a boy in the 1970s.
(Courtesy Jimmy Chin)
Announcing the launch of Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1984.
(Courtesy Richard Branson)
Branson started Student magazine at age 16, “a vehicle for intelligent comment and protest.” (Courtesy Richard Branson)
“I rebelled from a young age — I left school at 16.”
(Courtesy Richard Branson)
What first drew these guys to want to go higher,
further, longer than anyone ever before?
An ice canyon carved by a melt river on the Greenland ice sheet. (Photo by Erik Boomer, courtesy Eddie Bauer)
Runnng rapids in the Beriman Gorge in Papua New Guinea
(Photo by Erik Ben Marr, courtesy Eddie Bauer)
“I’d be lying if I said it doesn’t scare me still.”
(Courtesy Eddie Bauer)
Eddie Bauer athlete Ben Stookesberry jumping a crevasse in Greenland. (Photo by Erik Boomer, courtesy Eddie Bauer)
At work on the northwest face of Yosemite’s Half Dome.
(Photo by Mikey Schaefer)
Climbing the Bugaboos in British Columbia.
(Photo by Mikey Schaefer)
“Something interesting happens when you know you’re going to die … and then you don’t.” (Photo by Ruven Afanador)
“Say yes a lot more. Life is far richer and more exciting if you do." (Photo by Ruven Afanador)
Foilboard surfing off the coast of Moskito Island.
(Photo by Jay Brockway / Getty Images)
Branson has plans to go into space, but his favorite mode of transportation is a balloon. (Courtesy Richard Branson)
Flying over Algeria in an attempt of a non-stop voyage around
the world in 1997. (Photo by Thierry Boccon-Gibod)
Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry talk about what happens when you know you’re going to die.
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We talked to three of our 25 most adventurous men — Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry — about their deepest fears, their closest calls, and the rebellious streaks that pushed them to the limit.
