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Photographer Anne Menke travels the world, surfing and shooting fashion in remote locations. She is constantly on the hunt for new experiences. "It's great to encounter new people, mentalities, traditions and, yes, always new fashion. " She immediately saw adventure apparel as a part of the blue lifestyle and the city as a place to be active (Humanwear, page 52). "The city offers you everything you need- you just have to open your eyes." Anne started taking photos of people when she was 12 years old. Now her innovative images can be seen in Esquire, W, Womens Sports & Fitness and Japanese, Spanish and Greek editions of Vogue. Mark B Lasser spends his time producing independent films, watching sunsets, sipping rum drinks on remote islands and accumulating, then recovering from, equatorial illnesses (Vietnam: When the Smoke Clears, page 60). He believes the key to traveling is an open mind, an iron stomach and a good pair of Tevas. Mark is currently holed up in Venice Beach, CA. Look him up if you're passing through. Mark has written for WARP, Bikini Magazine and trips. After seven years of working in NYC and LA on fash ion and celebrity shoots with the likes of Annie Leibovitz and Michel Comte, photographer James Whitlow Delano traveled to Japan to visit a friend . When he got there, he fell in love with a Japan beyond the tired stereotypes of temples and kimono-ed geisha. He decided to stay and now uses Tokyo as a base for exploring Asia and beyond. James recently traveled to Vietnam for the first time (Vietnam: When the Smoke Clears, page 60). In his images, James aims to cap- ture "the natural energy of the place" as it is manifested in the people on the streets. James' current pro- ject, "Imagining Asia," has taken him from the rainforests of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Nepal to the ancient Silk Road in western China. James' photographs have appeared in Outside, Time, Travel & Leisure, Interview and Detour. In-li ne skater Eddy Matzger skates at an average of 30 miles per hour. He spends 90 percent of his waking life on skates; he's skated on five continents. In short, he's obsessed. "In-line skates give me the freedom to roam, to experience my body filling space and see much more than I otherwise would, " he says in explanation of his obsession. In this issue, Eddy reports on his expedition up Mt Kilimanjaro on in- line skates (To the Roof of Africa, page 38). After smuggling his skates into Mt Kilimanjaro National Park, it took Eddy five days to skate up through the five climatic zones of the mountain-with accompanying mud, rocks, rain and snow-bag the peak, and skate back down. Eddy has grand plans to teach humanity to skate. "I want people to break free of their workaday lives and discover the body and mind freedom of skat- ing. Skates can solve a lot of transportation problems so I want the world's commuters to leave their cars behind and try in-lines."