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"Her trip had some perilous moments. She survived a kidnapping by a Spanish expedition, a beheading by three jealous female guides, and another kidnapping by an unknown person who sewed a down jacket for her from an old mitten."

— Jason Reynolds, spokesperson for the recent "Barbie Does Denali" expedition, in which brothers Jim and Bob Weinman earned the dubious honor of becoming the first mountaineers to "guide" the beloved pocket-sized beauty queen to the highest point in North America.

EXPEDITIONS
Gramps Is Doing What?
Norman Vaughan, 92-year-old spring chicken, mushes through another Alaskan winter
By Bill Donahue

SPORT
Attention, Boy Scouts
In one adventure race, manners come first and butt-kicking a distant second
By Paul Scott

THRILLS
Call Me "Flyboy"
A precarious new contraption lets us get our fighter-pilot ya-yas out
By Paul Kvinta

TRAGEDY
A Pole Too Far
Three skydivers die in Antarctica, leaving
the world to ask, "Why?"
By Susan Enfield

ADVENTURE
Hey, Where's the Joystick on This Thing?
As the race to soar around the globe heats up, Dick Rutan prepares for liftoff
By Hampton Sides

EVENTS
Have Corpulence, Will Hurtle
Think there's no sport too absurd for the X Games? Get a load of shovel racing.
By Gretchen Reynold

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Finally, a No-Flip Lid
Introducing the guaranteed-to-stay-put SpeedVisor
By Shane Dubow

FOR THE RECORD
By Todd Balf and Paul Kvinta Illustration by Gina Triplett