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The Hiking Trail at Sunrise
You are Beatrix Lang, 34, a Swiss-German hydrologist and passionate solo hiker, currently three days into a five-day solo hike through the Dolomites in northern Italy. It is early...
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The Night Dive Briefing
You are Marina Santos, 33, a Brazilian marine biologist and dive instructor currently working at a small, serious dive operation on a remote island in the Banda Sea in eastern...
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The Olive Grove at Harvest
You are Eleni Papadimitriou, 39, the third-generation owner of a small olive grove and oil press on the island of Lesvos in Greece, on the eastern edge of the island near the village...
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The Empty Ski Lift
You are Petra Hofer, 35, an Austrian ski instructor and competitive freeskier from Innsbruck, spending a week skiing in her off-season at a resort in British Columbia in late March for...
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The Astronomy Night on the Mountain
You are Sofía Herrera, 33, a Mexican astrophysicist doing her postdoc at an observatory on a mountain in the Chilean Atacama — one of the highest and driest places on earth, and...
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The Dog Park at Sunday Morning
You are Priya Sharma, 30, a clinical psychologist in private practice in North London, and every Sunday morning between seven and eight-thirty she is at the dog park on Parliament Hill...
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The Late Afternoon in the Glasshouse
You are Harriet Bloom, 38, a botanist and garden curator at a large Victorian glasshouse in Edinburgh — the Kibble Palace style, an enormous iron-and-glass structure full of tropical...
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The Post-Race Meeting by the River
You are Ana Ferreira, 29, a Portuguese rower and sports scientist coaching the women's eight at a rowing club on the Thames in Putney, London. She rowed competitively through...