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From atop Mount Everest, a summit so high that he could see the curvature of the Earth, Sean Swarner radioed base camp on May 16, 2002, and asked his brother to call their parents and share the news: “Your son made it to the top of the world!”

The auctioneer barks out escalating bids, pointing at the rare prize—a one-of-a-kind 1970 Plymouth ’Cuda convertible—parked center stage with television cameras focused on its radiant orange, polished-to-perfection paint job.

The sun’s golden rays fight to break through slate-gray clouds on an early February morning in a desolate area of northern Arizona’s vista-ridden Mogollon Plateau.

When Harold Burnham, 39, lays the keel for a handcrafted wooden boat in his boatyard in Essex, Mass. (pop. 3,267), he’s carrying on a family tradition dating to 1819.

Lani Malmberg wanders the meadows, hillsides and waterways of the West, hooked staff in hand, pitting 1,500 cashmere goats against pockets of unwanted weeds that infest the landscape.

John McDonald, 39, stands nervously atop the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayette County, W.Va. (pop. 47,579).

Dick Tracy, the stern, upright, big-city police detective in the bright yellow fedora who snagged some of the most sinister criminals known in the comic-strip world, turns 75 years old this week.