Mark Synnott

From the archive: In Henry Barber's 2008 interview with Mark Synnott, he discusses his philosophy of minimalism and tolerance: "Let’s make sure that we allow these people to be themselves, and not try to make them all the same. This sport has to be different for everybody—it has to be."

Alex Honnold ascends 1,000 feet of sheer rock to the top of the tepui, a remote “island in the sky” deep in the Amazon jungle.

One man's quest to learn the fate of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine's 1924 summit bid. Could they have been the first men on top of the world?

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