Cory Richards
According to Cory Richards, this is the most important tool for connecting with anybody that you’re photographing.
What is being able to make someone laugh?
Amy was 15 when she started snowboarding. This is the stage in her life when she moved to the mountains where she could spend her free time doing what she loved.
What is after finishing high school?
This is the country in which Yuko Arimori was born in 1966.
What is Japan?
This opponent, unlike in traditional sports where athletes compete against one another, can be very hazardous even though for extreme athletes like Jussi Oksanen, risk is just part of the job.
What is nature?
This means to do what one sets out to do.
What is 'to achieve.'
When he was always looking for a way to translate what I was seeing around me, this became his voice in this big, very confusing world.
What is photography?
This horrible disease, which involves inflammation of the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord, is what Amy contracted when she was 19.
What is meningitis?
When Arimori tried to join a top track team in Japan, this was the spot on the team that opened.
What is a marathon runner?
These three obstacles pose serious risks to extreme big-wave surfers like Koa Rothman.
What are sharks, jellyfish and the force of the water?
This means to take part in a competition or a sporting event on behalf of the country or town where you live.
What is 'to represent'?
There was no way of knowing at the time but Cory says this pushed his life in a dramatic direction towards telling that larger story of what it means to hurt, and what it means to triumph, and what it means to be human.
What is the image he took of himself right after he realized he hadn't died in the avalanche?
We know that Amy started a company that makes artificial limbs, but this is what the organization that she created does.
What is introduces people with physical disabilities to action sports?
These are the two top athletic achievements by Yuko Arimori.
What is winning the silver medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the bronze medal in the 1996 Olympics?
The country that Nur Muhammad Shafiullah represented in a tough academic competition.
What is Bangladesh?
This means as far as something can go.
What is 'limit'?
One of two things that Cory has witnessed (other than faces) which he think others can feel by looking at his pictures.
What is a sunrise over the highest mountains in the world, or polar bears standing on the last piece of ice on the farthest north piece of land in the Eurasian continent.
These are the three occupations connected to Amy Purdy as we are first introduced to her.
What is a world-class athlete, model and actress?
One of two of the most recent positions that Yuko Arimori has held or holds outside of marathon running.
What is a United Nations Good Will Ambassador and the President and CEO of Special Olympics Nippon?
Nur Muhammad Shafiullah knows first-hand how this competition can push mental limits, because he is the youngest student ever to compete in it, winning the bronze medal.
What is the International Mathematical Olympiad?
This means the ability to continue with an unpleasant or difficult situation, experience, or activity over a long period of time.
What is 'endurance'?
It was in the winter of 2010/2011, Cory says, on this 8,000 meter peak, in this mountain range, in this country, where Cory almost died in an avalanche on first descent after summiting.
What is Gasherbrum II, in the Karakorum Himalaya, in Pakistan?
These were Amy's top two athletic accomplishments, achieved in 2012 and 2014 respectively.
What is the Para-Snowboard World Champion (2012) and winning the bronze medal in the Paralympic Games (2014)?
This is what Hearts of Gold, a volunteer organization that Arimori started in 1998, sponsors and why.
What is the Angkor Wat International Half Marathan, where runners from around the world compete to raise money to buy artificial limbs for those who lost arms and legs because of land mines?
In this extreme competition, participants must cross a distance of around 250 km over five or six days in the Sahara Desert in 50 + degree heat, requiring incredible endurance.
What is the Marathon des Sables, or MdS?
This means farther or more than what someone thought or expected.
What is 'beyond'?