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  • With a grimace on her pained face, a female Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst splashes through a water obstacle during  an endurance race. Recruits are running a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perseverance or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
    sandhurst_cadet04-12-1996.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, scales a giant boulder in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy has the stamina to get to the top and continue his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday37-02082008_1.jpg
  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Runners with their medals and goody bags at the finnish area. London, UK.
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  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Exhausted runner at the finnish area. London, UK.
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  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Runners with their medals and goody bags at the finnish area. London, UK.
    140413_pers_065_1.jpg
  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Runners with their medals and goody bags at the finnish area. London, UK.
    140413_pers_064_1.jpg
  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Exhausted runner at the finnish area. London, UK.
    140413_pers_073_1.jpg
  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Exhausted runner at the finnish area. London, UK.
    140413_pers_072_1.jpg
  • Competitors in the 2014 London Marathon. Exhausted runner at the finnish area. London, UK.
    140413_pers_069_1.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_016.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_028.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_017.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_014.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_012.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_004.jpg
  • A dog owner and her two pet pugs with coloured leads who refuse to go any further while crossing a small bridge over a narrow canal in Dorsoduro, a district in Venice, Italy. Standing near the top of the small bridge that spans a minor canal in the western sestriere, we see the lady in a yellow dress holding red and blue leads that correspondingly hold the reverse dogs' collar colours. they refuse to move, stubbornly laying on the cool pavement during a midsummer heatwave.
    venice_15-21-07-2015_1.jpg
  • A male jogger exercises in a wide landscape of late winter light of south London's Ruskin Park. Jogging downhill along a path between silhouetted trees, the man is seen against the strong, low sun in the west. Surrounding the open space are the Victorian homes of Londoners who look out onto this protected location, owned by Lambeth and Southwark councils. It is early December and the winter has yet to grip the capital - the first snows being a short time away - and the mild weather attracts this male to a quiet moment during the day.
    ruskin_park02-09-12-2010.jpg
  • The tower containing Big Ben amid the Gothic architecture of Britain's Houses of Parliament and jogger on the Embankment. Passing-by at speed with a slight blur, the male sportsman runs by the racks of colourful postcards showing London scenes, their prices written on makeshift marker on a white board. Beyond is Westminster Bridge that stretches of the River Thames, towards the British Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben's clock tower rising high above. It is a fine sunny day and a woman is writing more prices for tourist mementoes of another board, leaning on the river wall. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords (the upper house). Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster.
    parliament12-08-04-2010.jpg
  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher trains in the gym at the Sports Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Starting to regain fitness after a summer break, she finds the going hard as she starts a new training regime for the forthcoming winter season. Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
    kelly_gallagher164-22-05-2014_1.jpg
  • A lone rider nears the top of the Jaufenpass, the highest point at 2,094 metres on the road between Meran-merano and Sterzing-Vipiteno in South Tyrol, Italy. Struggling up to the pass's summit, the rider gives a thumbs up as he passes the lettering for a bus stop at the side of the road. South Tyrol has a surface area of 7,400sq km, roughly the same as the Black Forest and is the largest province in Italy with 60% of this is 1,600 metres above sea level. The Jaufenpass (Italian: Passo di Monte Giovo) (alt 2094m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the South Tyrol in Italy. It connects Meran and Sterzing on the road to the Brenner Pass. It is the northernmost pass in the Alps that is completely in Italy. The pass road is very winding, with many switchbacks.
    jaufenpass_italy02-13-07-2015_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is straining in his last sit-ups during a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0416-01_1997_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_training0116-01_1997_1.jpg
  • Comedian and actor David Walliams, completes his epic 8 day, 140 mile swim of the River Thames for Comic Relief. Cheered on by thousands, he raised just over 1m Pounds for developing world and UK causes. One half of the popular TV show Little Britain, Walliams battled stomach illness, agressive swans, the cold and a a mammoth endurance from the English river's source in rural Gloucestershire to the city of Westminster, opposite Parliament.
    david_walliams3-12-09-2011_1.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-08-08-04-2020.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_005.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_015.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_009.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_006.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_002.jpg
  • One runner struggling over the last 4 miles, stops to stretch to get going as other participants pass in the London Marathon on 22nd April 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom. The London Marathon, presently known through sponsorship as the Virgin Money London Marathon, is a long-distance running event. The event was first run in 1981 and has been held in the spring of every year since. The race is mainly known for ebing a public race where ordinary people can challenge themsleves while raising great amounts of money for various charities.
    20180422_london marathon_B_010.jpg
  • Contestants in Trafalgar Square attempt to hang on to a horizontal bar in an attempt to win one hundred pounds in London, United Kingdom. Each contestant pays ten pounds and tries to hang on for one and a half minutes for women and two minutes for men. Some passers by comment that this is a scam, but hanging on is possible, if difficult.
    20190703_hang on trafalgar sq_002.jpg
  • Contestants in Trafalgar Square attempt to hang on to a horizontal bar in an attempt to win one hundred pounds in London, United Kingdom. Each contestant pays ten pounds and tries to hang on for one and a half minutes for women and two minutes for men. Some passers by comment that this is a scam, but hanging on is possible, if difficult.
    20190703_hang on trafalgar sq_001.jpg
  • With bare legs, a runner wears shorts and passes snow-covered roofs of south London Edwardian homes and residential high-rise towers under construction, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
    ruskin_winter07-08-02-2021.jpg
  • Out-of-work chef Phil, exercises alone in a snowy landscape at the empty open-air gym in Brockwell Park, south London during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic. Furloughed since last October and feeling the need to escape his nearby flat, he regularly visits this outdoor facility which is usually busy with south London fitness enthusiasts, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
    gym_snow13-08-02-2021.jpg
  • Out-of-work chef Phil, exercises alone in a snowy landscape at the empty open-air gym in Brockwell Park, south London during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic. Furloughed since last October and feeling the need to escape his nearby flat, he regularly visits this outdoor facility which is usually busy with south London fitness enthusiasts, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
    gym_snow03-08-02-2021.jpg
  • A lone walker passes by a partially-collapsed broken sign announcing the summit of Rannoch Moor, Scotland UK, 1,350 feet above sea level. He is hunched against a driving wind at this altitude and the country he is walking over is bleak and boggy, a wetland high up in the Scottish Highlands. Thick tufts of grass and moss lie about in this tough terrain, held in great affection for long-distance hikers. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km²) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch, in Perth and Kinross and Lochaber, Highland, partly northern Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Rannoch Moor is designated a National Heritage site.
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  • Setting sun with jogger in Ruskin Park in the borough of Lambeth, south London. Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) is a beautiful green space in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. The jogger paces past the image as the sun sets against period homes of the Edwardian era, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
    park_sunset06-04-10-2010.jpg
  • USA's Gwen Jorgensen (right) in the cycling phase of the womens' Triathlon held in Hyde Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The race was eventually won in a photo finish by the Swiss Nicola Spirig, Lisa Norden (Silver) and Australia's Erin Densham (Bronze)
    olympic_triathlon03-04-08-2012.jpg
  • South Londoners out for a late-afternoon walk, enjoy the last sunlight during the second lockdown of the Cornavirus pandemic, in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, on 19th November 2020, in Lambeth, London, England.
    london_parklife21-19-11-2020.jpg
  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher trains in the gym at the Sports Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Doping squats to build strength in her thighs, she starts a new training regime for the forthcoming winter season. Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
    kelly_gallagher310-22-05-2014_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoes a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training, on 16th January 1997, in Pokhara, Nepal. Carrying 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko basket for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    gurkha_selection01-16-01-1997.jpg
  • Wearing a peaked cap and small rucksack, a young adventurer, clambers over rocks in the ancient forest of Monbachtal Bach in Germany's Black Forest. Stretching to climb the rock, the lad of 10 uses his hand and walking stick to balance as he puts a boot higher to gain a sure footing. There is ample covering of moss and lichen on the primeval landscape making it hazardous to conquer but the boy stumbles over the terrain and continues his walk through this beautiful wilderness. The boy is alone in the picture though accompanied by his family but he seems to mange on his own, capable of finding his own limits of endurance and confidence. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday36-02082008_1.jpg
  • Teenage Nepali boys await the start of a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. They have to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
    doko_gurkhas-16-01-1997_1.jpg
  • A woman shopper yawns as she walks past a billboard ad featuring the face of a model advertising a perfume outside the retailer Debenhams on Oxford Street, on 16th April 2018, in London, England.
    debenham_shoppers-08-16-04-2018.jpg
  • Comedian and actor David Walliams, completes his epic 8 day, 140 mile swim of the River Thames for Comic Relief. Cheered on by thousands, he raised just over 1m Pounds for developing world and UK causes. One half of the popular TV show Little Britain, Walliams battled stomach illness, agressive swans, the cold and a a mammoth endurance from the English river's source in rural Gloucestershire to the city of Westminster, opposite Parliament.
    david_walliams4-12-09-2011_1.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-09-08-04-2020.jpg
  • An exhausted jogger has collapsed and lies on his back on the gravel outside the ICA in London's The Mall.
    collapsed_runner01-03-02-2011_1.jpg
  • Lunchtime jogger runs past hoarding with London Bridge in the background. Making his way along the Thames Path that takes pedestrians along the capital's river, the man athletically runs along the line of this hoarding that continues beneath London's famous bridge on which we see a few pedestrians and a red bus travelling north into the City, the financial district founded by the Romans in the 1st Century who first forded the Thames very close to the site of the present bridge.
    city_people02-20-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Woman walks uphill on a quiet, rural road in northern Italy, South Tyrol. Making her way up towards a country hotel called Steinegger in a hamlet also of that name, the lady passes lines of apples on both sides of the road. The area produces 900,000 tons of apples per year on a fruit-growing area of 18,400 hectares. The Überetsch (Oltradige in Italian) is a hilly section of the Etschtal in South Tyrol, northern Italy. It lies south-west of Bolzano and is a known tourist destination, famous for its wines, castles and lakes (Kalterer See, Montiggler Seen). The municipalities of the Überetsch are Kaltern and Eppan.
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  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_010.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_022.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_026.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_020.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_011.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_008.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_007.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_003.jpg
  • One runner struggling over the last 4 miles, stops to stretch to get going as other participants pass in the London Marathon on 22nd April 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom. The London Marathon, presently known through sponsorship as the Virgin Money London Marathon, is a long-distance running event. The event was first run in 1981 and has been held in the spring of every year since. The race is mainly known for ebing a public race where ordinary people can challenge themsleves while raising great amounts of money for various charities.
    20180422_london marathon_B_009.jpg
  • One runner struggling over the last 4 miles, stops to stretch to get going as other participants pass in the London Marathon on 22nd April 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom. The London Marathon, presently known through sponsorship as the Virgin Money London Marathon, is a long-distance running event. The event was first run in 1981 and has been held in the spring of every year since. The race is mainly known for ebing a public race where ordinary people can challenge themsleves while raising great amounts of money for various charities.
    20180422_london marathon_A_008.jpg
  • One runner struggling over the last 4 miles, stops to stretch to get going as other participants pass in the London Marathon on 22nd April 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom. The London Marathon, presently known through sponsorship as the Virgin Money London Marathon, is a long-distance running event. The event was first run in 1981 and has been held in the spring of every year since. The race is mainly known for ebing a public race where ordinary people can challenge themsleves while raising great amounts of money for various charities.
    20180422_london marathon_A_009.jpg
  • Contestants in Trafalgar Square attempt to hang on to a horizontal bar in an attempt to win one hundred pounds in London, United Kingdom. Each contestant pays ten pounds and tries to hang on for one and a half minutes for women and two minutes for men. Some passers by comment that this is a scam, but hanging on is possible, if difficult.
    20190703_hang on trafalgar sq_005.jpg
  • Contestants in Trafalgar Square attempt to hang on to a horizontal bar in an attempt to win one hundred pounds in London, United Kingdom. Each contestant pays ten pounds and tries to hang on for one and a half minutes for women and two minutes for men. Some passers by comment that this is a scam, but hanging on is possible, if difficult.
    20190703_hang on trafalgar sq_003.jpg
  • Out-of-work chef Phil, exercises alone in a snowy landscape at the empty open-air gym in Brockwell Park, south London during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic. Furloughed since last October and feeling the need to escape his nearby flat, he regularly visits this outdoor facility which is usually busy with south London fitness enthusiasts, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
    gym_snow17-08-02-2021.jpg
  • Out-of-work chef Phil, exercises alone in a snowy landscape at the empty open-air gym in Brockwell Park, south London during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic. Furloughed since last October and feeling the need to escape his nearby flat, he regularly visits this outdoor facility which is usually busy with south London fitness enthusiasts, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
    gym_snow01-08-02-2021.jpg
  • A jogger runs past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles (and shadows) on exterior windows in the City of London. The man is about to head south over London Bridge and passes these offices whose window theme is a series of dots, currently popular in the City of London - the capital's oldest financial district.
    window_spots13-10-04-2014.jpg
  • A tired elderly visitor to the capital yawns next to the Information kiosk at the London Eye, on 20th July 2017, on the Southbank, London, England.
    southbank_yawn-01-20-07-2017.jpg
  • In pouring rain, United States Air Force pilots stand like canmouflaged statues in the undergrowth near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. They are listening to a USAF survival instructor giving them advice about another challenge they are about to face, a few hundred yards ahead in the woods, so they listen intently in the saturatedconditions. They stand motionless, green figures in a green maze of foliage, wearing waterproof cagoules covering their backpacks which are shiny as the rain trickles down. They look like hunchbacks of the forest. The week-long survival course is held at the military facilities around Fairchild where the Air Force conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. This part of the lecture is held in the forest and forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment for young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • We see the head and shoulders of a man in military uniform who stands motionless beside the American flag.  he is at a graduation ceremony for United States Air Force pilots who have just passed a week-long survival courseheld at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington. Its highy-trained personel conducts a survival, escape and evasion course which combat pilots and air crew need to pass before rejoining their units for real-time warfare. Conducted, in hangars and the surrounding forests, it forms part of an extensive physical and psychological assessment of young aviators on active service. In the future any one of them may be shot down behind enemy lines and need to use the lessons passed-on here to help facilitate their rescue by US forces. One pilot who passed this course in 1991, himself a Spokane-born boy, was F-16 pilot Scott O'Grady. He put his skills learned here to the test while evading Serb forces before being airlifted to safety and a hero's Presidential welcome.
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  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
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  • Setting sun with jogger in Ruskin Park in the borough of Lambeth, south London. Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) is a beautiful green space in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. The jogger paces past the image as the sun sets against period homes of the Edwardian era, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
    park_sunset04-04-10-2010 12-43-43.jpg
  • British army Parachute Regiment recruits are suffering from fatigue on a rigorous forced march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lads are slowly buckling under the weight of backpack Bergens and weapons carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • Canada's Cathy Tremblay (#56, left) and Aileen Morrison (#28, right) in the cycling phase of the womens' Triathlon held in Hyde Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The race was eventually won in a photo finish by the Swiss Nicola Spirig, Lisa Norden (Silver) and Australia's Erin Densham (Bronze)
    olympic_triathlon05-04-08-2012.jpg
  • Team GB's Vicky Holland at the front of a group in the cycling phase of the womens' Triathlon held in Hyde Park during the London 2012 Olympics. The race was eventually won in a photo finish by the Swiss Nicola Spirig, Lisa Norden (Silver) and Australia's Erin Densham (Bronze)
    olympic_triathlon02-04-08-2012.jpg
  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher trains in the gym at the Sports Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Using an empty barbell to practice reps, she starts a new training regime for the forthcoming winter season. Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
    kelly_gallagher54-22-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Partially-sighted skiing paralympian from the Sochi Olympics, Kelly Gallagher trains in the gym at the Sports Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK. Using an empty barbell to practice reps, she starts a new training regime for the forthcoming winter season. Kelly Marie Gallagher, MBE is a Northern Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics. Gallagher won Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal during Sochi 2014.
    kelly_gallagher36-22-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Detail of an illustration of two joggers wearing Karrimor sportswear, running in the window of Lillywhites, a retailer on Piccadilly Circus in central London. A man and woman run across the width of the window with a reflection of city architecture in the background while their shadows repeat sprinting arms and legs. Karrimor was founded and based in Lancashire, England, following World War II but as of 2013, the Karrimor brand remains and is licensed and used for marketing and product branding purposes. Sports Direct continue to sell Karrimor branded products, which are as of 2013 largely made in China rather than the UK.
    karrimor_window04-28-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A young Nepali boy is undergoing a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment called the Doko race, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to carry 30kg of river stones in a traditional Himalayan doko (basket) for 3km up foothills within 37 minutes to pass.  60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youths for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Comedian and actor David Walliams, completes his epic 8 day, 140 mile swim of the River Thames for Comic Relief. Cheered on by thousands, he raised just over 1m Pounds for developing world and UK causes. One half of the popular TV show Little Britain, Walliams battled stomach illness, agressive swans, the cold and a a mammoth endurance from the English river's source in rural Gloucestershire to the city of Westminster, opposite Parliament.
    david_walliams5-12-09-2011_1.jpg
  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, a rather overweight passenger on Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy struggles to push his obese body around the ship’s top Sun Deck Olympic jogging track. In evening tropical sunlight, the man runs while sweating and panting , punishing himself while listening to a portable Walkman music player (before the era of digital MP3s). Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping, catering to budget travel.
    cruise_jogger-07-05-1996_1.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-19-08-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-16-08-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-17-08-04-2020.jpg
  • As the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffers from Coronavirus and remains in intensive care in hospital - with a record 938 UK daily deaths recorded, a total of 7,097, Londoners keep to government guidelines for daily exercise and practicing social distancing in Ruskin Park, a green space in Herne Hill, Lambeth, on 8th April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-14-08-04-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues and a week before Easter when Prime Minister Boris Johnson reminds Britons to stay locally and not to travel to beauty spots, the UK death toll rises to 2,921, with 1m cases of Covid-19 worldwide in 181 countries, running Londoners enjoy sunshine and spring temperatures in Brockwell Park in Herne Hill, 3rd April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_HerneHill-01-03-04-2020.jpg
  • A jogger runs past an office foyer entrance featuring dots and circles on exterior windows in the City of London. The man is about to head south over London Bridge and passes these offices whose window theme is a series of dots, currently popular in the City of London - the capital's oldest financial district.
    city_spots02-15-04-2014.jpg
  • A mid-afternoon jogger runs over the junction of Bishopsgate as a London double-decker bus advertising Sky Sports drives south. With a theme of sporting endeavour and personal fitness alongside the corporate message of this broadcaster, advertising its brand on London's public transport. Striding across the box junction on this ancient thoroughfare in the City of London, the capital's financial heart, the man heads south while listening to mp3 music on a personal device.
    city_people02-13-08-2014.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_013.jpg
  • Participants taking part in the London Marathon running some four miles to go to complete the race on 23rd April 2017 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20170423_london marathon_001.jpg
  • Contestants in Trafalgar Square attempt to hang on to a horizontal bar in an attempt to win one hundred pounds in London, United Kingdom. Each contestant pays ten pounds and tries to hang on for one and a half minutes for women and two minutes for men. Some passers by comment that this is a scam, but hanging on is possible, if difficult.
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  • Out-of-work chef Phil, exercises alone in a snowy landscape at the empty open-air gym in Brockwell Park, south London during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic. Furloughed since last October and feeling the need to escape his nearby flat, he regularly visits this outdoor facility which is usually busy with south London fitness enthusiasts, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • Out-of-work chef Phil, exercises alone in a snowy landscape at the empty open-air gym in Brockwell Park, south London during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic. Furloughed since last October and feeling the need to escape his nearby flat, he regularly visits this outdoor facility which is usually busy with south London fitness enthusiasts, on 8th February 2021, in London, England.
    gym_snow07-08-02-2021.jpg
  • A male swimmer stands up after doing the Crawl across this scene of fresh water bathing in the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club has the use of this Royal Lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The pool was formed in 1730, its name from a snakelike, curve. Queen Caroline wife of George II ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park.
    serpentine_swimmer01-21-06-1994_1_1.jpg
  • A British army Parachute Regiment recruit is suffering from exhaustion on a rigorous assault course conducted over rough terrain and into water. He emerges dripping from the water jump and back into the forest accompanied by instructors who shout encouragement and abuse to get the candidate to a successful stage of this test. This forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
    paras_course-30-07-1996.jpg
  • With his face covered and a well-earned medal around his neck, a male London Marathon runner has collapsed on grass after completing a gruelling 26 miles 385 yards through the capital's streets, before being met by family. With the few possessions around him - bottles of sponsored Lucozade isotonic drinks and clothing bags - he lies motionless with other competitors and spectators around him
    london_marathon03-25-04-2010.jpg
  • Detail of an illustration of two joggers wearing Karrimor sportswear, running in the window of Lillywhites, a retailer on Piccadilly Circus in central London. A man and woman run across the width of the window with a reflection of city architecture in the background while their shadows repeat sprinting arms and legs. Karrimor was founded and based in Lancashire, England, following World War II but as of 2013, the Karrimor brand remains and is licensed and used for marketing and product branding purposes. Sports Direct continue to sell Karrimor branded products, which are as of 2013 largely made in China rather than the UK.
    karrimor_window05-28-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Wearing his bathing costume, a young adventurer clambers over rocks in the Gross Enz river in Germany's Black Forest. The lad of 10 crouches to better balance himself, carefully placing his bare feet on the slippery rock's surface as he emerges from the chilly mountain water. It is high summer and we can see the boy backlit by the glare of strong sunlight in the background. The Gross Enz river rises in Enzklosterle in Baden-Württemberg and is an eventual  tributary of the Neckar. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
    germany_holiday24-29072008_1.jpg
  • A male swimmer performs the Crawl across this scene of frewsh water bathing in the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park. As the man twists his head to gulp in air, breathing a lungful of oxygen, he passes the lettering stencilled on the poolside warning of shallow water. This bathing area is where the normally busy Serpentine Swimming Club has the use of this Royal Lake known as Lansbury's Lido. It is now normally open only in the summer, but one traditional event occurs each year on New Year's Day, when the ice is broken and brave bathers dive into the cold waters of the lake. The Serpentine will be used for the swimming leg of the triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics. The pool was formed in 1730, its name from a snakelike, curve. Queen Caroline wife of George II ordered the damming of the River Westbourne and other natural ponds in Hyde Park.
    deep_swimmer-21-06-1994_1.jpg
  • An Officer Cadet at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is loaded into the back of a British Army Land Rover ambulance to join the downfacing trainers of a collapsed colleague, after retiring  from an endurance race. Recruits run a 5 mile steeplechase around the Academy grounds to assess individual stamina and accumulate team points. Sandhurst is an institution which has bred staff officers since 1800. Today it trains future officers for the demands of leadership and military understanding of military understanding,. Students are tested for their command instincts, intellect, strength of character and physical endurance often under great psychological pressure - the demands asked of them in modern warfare. Failure in this test might not necessarily mean dismissal though perserverence or refusal to give up won't harm their prospects.
    army02-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • A local man carries electric cabling uphill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With few roads that can transport supplies and raw materials up to remote foothill communities, the only way is often to carry what one needs on the back or by yak. The paths are even but often very steep in places so stamina and endurance are needed to get even modest weights uphill. Nepalis up here often want newer technology and basic electricity to power lights and showers although solar power is another answer.
    himalayas_porter02-12-12-1997_1.jpg
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