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contributors o c • .., • ,... e • o o .c ... e lines between adventure, activism, and tourism are becoming blurred, says Brian Monnin, who shot video ut of Cessna floatplanes, sailed through remote fjords and followed grizzly tracks during his trip from Seattle to British Columbia's remote Great Bear Rainforest [Cascadia, p.241. Just by going up there your dollars help to diversify the economy and demonstrate that a living rainforest is more valuable than an agricultural one. He adds that riding a new set of rapids, or hitting a bowl of powder never previously skied are the perks of this kind of adventure activism. Brian lives in Seattle and is biding his time developing Internet applications for the largest software corpo ration in the world while he plans a return trip to the Great Bear Rainforest and more video footage for a documen His account of a five-day, 500 mile run with Lakota Indians, "Sacred Hoop 500," appeared in Blue last winter . "Contemporary Japanese youth culture is so complicated it makes my head spin," says Susanna Howe, who nt to Tokyo to go snowboarding indoors [SnOW Dome, p.161. "The kids are such major consumers, really conscious, but they're so academic about it that they manage to elevate the process of consumption to high art." Susanna is the author of Sick: A Cultural History of Snowboarding. Having climbed in China, Thailand, the Great North, the Alps, and just about everywhere in the US, Sam Mancini [Thai Caves, p.5OJfigured caving would be about the same, only underground. He was a bit off. The editor of the American Alpine Club Newsletter, Sam has written articles on climbing, kayaking, traveling and business, and is current ly writing a book about climbers who have shifted the perception of what is possible-the defining routes and people who climbed them over the past 10 years. He has completed Sandhurst and used to jump out of airplanes for a living. Sam's life is climbing, skiing, and writing about it. He would rather be 3000 feet up hanging from a piton than in a cave wondering whether he's going to run out of air. We asked our new senior consulting editor, Albert Podell, a former editor at Argosy and Playboy, about some of his adventures. AI organized the longest land expedition ever made around the Earth, and his classic tale of mazing journey, Who Needs a Road, is being reissued this fall. AI has summited mountains from Kilimanjaro uatl; crossed the Grand Canyon, rim to rim, in a single day; scuba-dived and windsurfed throughout the ibbean, Mediterranean, Red Sea, and the Great Barrier Reef; skied and boarded more than a hundred hills; whi lw,.t",r"rl on four continents; and trekked through 49 states-sorry North Dakota-and 95 countries. He has torn a ham ng in a crevasse rescue; broken his ribs in the Boston-New York Tomato War; ripped both rotator cuffs several times high-speed ski wipeouts; and was bitten by a Lyme disease-carrying bug in a paintball tournament.