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In fall 1977, “Ça Plan Pour Moi” was blowing up the European pop charts. The three-minute snippet of punk pastiche was meant as both homage to thrasher music and nose-tweaking satire. It took producer Lou Deprijck five hours to compose and record: “Two hours in the studio and three hours afterward in the pub.” The song was released under the name Plastic Bertrand and has been covered hundreds of times since. The title is a French idiom that means “it’s going well for me” but translates to “it is gliding for me.” Sneaky, sneaky glisse.

Photographer and writer Chris Noble’s most recent book is Why We Climb: The World’s Most Inspiring Climbers. noblefoto.com, @noblefoto

Writer and photographer Steve Fassbinder has been riding bikes in a lot of places, for a long time, and for a long time at a long time. Case in point: He has so many 24-hour solo races under his belt, he was inducted in the Adrenalin Solo World Championships Hall of Fame. republicofdoom.com, @republicofdoom

Tom Clynes is the author of The Boy Who Played With Fusion and a frequent contributor to National Geographic. His last story for AJ was “Plugging Into Nature” in issue 04. tomclynes.com, @tomclynes

We’ve been trying to get Mark Jenkins in AJ since before we launched, but the dude is busy. There’s the little matter of being a contributing writer to Nat Geo, plus holding down the fort as the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Wyoming, and then, oh, raising his kids.

Justin Housman is a staff writer for Adventure Journal. No, wait, he’s a senior editor. No, actually, he’s both. @hzahorseman

Obi Kaufmann is an easy find on Google, but if you want to get there faster set your browser to coyoteandthunder.com, @coyotethunder

Photos: Paul Collins. paulncollins.com, @paulnemirahcollins

Southerner, seer, shooter of film, Jim Herrington was drawn first to music and then to rock, the vertical kind, that is, and while he’s best known for a long career photographing “the greats, the near misses, the never wases of the music world ever since you could buy a 45 rpm single,” his “tawdry secret” is an obsession with photographing the last living practitioners of a golden age of rockcraft. The first photograph for the project that became the book The Climbers was created on September 24, 1998, a topographical portrait of Sierra pioneer Glenn Denny, and now, nearly 20 years later, the book is out. Find it where you find other cool books about madmen, compulsives, visionaries, and other recidivist geniuses. jimherrington.com, @jimherrington

This American Life posted “Running After Antelope” on October 17, 1997, and who could know then that over the course of two decades it would become a cult classic? Author Scott Carrier’s voice is mesmerizing, comforting, luring, and the story is, of course, an addictive multilayered dive into physiology, anthropology, and a big hairy audacious goal. If reading it here in AJ is your first introduction, we strongly recommend you track it down through your favorite podcast platform and give it a listen.

When it came time to finding photos to illustrate the story, there was only one choice: Joe Riis, who has spent much of his career photographing pronghorn and their migrations. “Scott’s radio piece helped me fall in love with pronghorn, that’s for sure,” he told us. “I’ve listened to it at least 25 times entirely, love when he talks about leaving the market economy, I don’t really know what the market economy is, but I love the idea of leaving it behind, and in reality was trying to do so in my fieldwork process. I don’t know how many people I’ve played the radio piece for, but the most memorable was driving from southern Wyoming back to Jackson with Rick Ridgeway back in 2008, he and I had just finished a two-week walk with pronghorn, and we were driving back in the dark and I had it on a CD and played it for Rick, it was his first time hearing it. All good stuff there.”

Scott Carrier’s podcast Home of the Brave can be found at homebrave.com.

Joe Riis. joeriis.com, @joeriis

Words: Kristin Brown. kristinbrown.org, @therealpnw

Photos: Ryan Tatar. ryantatar.com, @ryantatar

Emily White is senior editor of Adventure Journal.

Menus are produced, written, and photographed by Megan McDuffie and Michael van Vliet, who after living full time on the road for several years have settled in Bend, Oregon. freshoffthegrid.com

When we first saw Andrew Burr’s photos of climbers crawling across Zion National Park snow on their hands and knees, we thought he was goofing—fun and humor are frequent subjects in his work—but it turned out they’d encountered several miles of breakable crust. That was just one challenge he faced on the way to producing these dramatic images, as well as compiling the beta to create Beehive Ice, his guidebook to climbing Utah’s frozen waterfalls. andrewburr.com, @andrew_burr