Leaving the Races Behind

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309385718?secret_token=s-u0qac” params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]If you travel down to Ushuaia, Argentina, you might just find a bus plastered with a massive photograph of Sam Evans-Brown. In that photo, he’s sprinting, shoulder to shoulder, with Olympic cross-country ski-racer Martin Bianchi in the final stretch of the 2008 national ski championship of Argentina.

Today, Sam brings us the backstory to that photograph–a story about a split-second act of kindness that altered the course of Martin’s life, and about figuring out when it’s time to leave the races behind.

Sam hosts the podcast ‘Outside In’, a show from New Hampshire Public Radio about the natural world and how we use it.

A version of this story originally aired on ‘Outside In’. You can find “Don’t Cheer for Me, Argentina” here.

 

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