During life in the time of the novel coronavirus, people make do. An ultramarathoner whose race was canceled ran 100 miles in rural Florida. Another ran 262½ miles to win the Quarantine Backyard Ultra in his Northern Virginia neighborhood.
And then there’s Rob Ferguson. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and ambassador for Arcteryx, an outdoor equipment company, he is a photographer and writer who says he likes to focus on the human side of adventuring, telling stories of climate change, sustainability projects and coping with extreme environments. When his trip to Nepal to chronicle how Everest is being cleaned up in the Tenzing Everest Challenge was postponed, he climbed the mountain differently, going up and down, up and down, up and down the steps of his suburban London apartment building.
