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Deep Play

By Tim Struby

Friday, February 20, 2009

Deep play: a pursuit "in which the stakes are so high that it is…irrational for men to engage in it at all." - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, 1748-1832 "Another day at the office," Will Gadd sighs as he trudges along a tight, snow-covered, boot-packed trail. By "office," the 41-year-old ice climber means he's outside in the cold, in terrain that's less than hospitable. Could be a skyscraper-size frozen waterfall in Nepal, ice caves in Sweden or even an iceberg off the coast of Can ...

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