Listen to “Leaving the Races Behind” Dirtbag Diaries Podcast Episode

The Dirtbag Diaries / Feb 24, 2017 / 1 Min Read / Community

Illustration: Walker Cahall

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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The campfire tale—it’s ubiquitous in mountain culture. As long as we’ve climbed, skied, boated or traveled, we’ve been telling stories. In March of 2007, Fitz Cahall launched The Dirtbag Diaries, a grassroots podcast dedicated to the sometimes serious, often humorous stories from wild places. What began as a solitary experiment has evolved into a collaboration between writers, photographers, artists and listeners to produce the types of stories that rarely find homes in the glossy pages of magazines.