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The son of nomadic sheep farmers and a member of Turkey’s ethnic Kurdish minority, Hamdi Ulukaya was the first in his family to go to college, enrolling at Ankara University. It was the early nineties, a time of heightened tensions between government forces and Kurdish separatists, and Ulukaya founded a newspaper in which he called out the human rights abuses faced by his fellow Kurds. One day, he recalls, he was taken into police custody.

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Alex Hoyt

A pioneer of big-mountain snowboarding, Jeremy Jones watched as helicopters made remote backcountry runs suddenly reachable, enabling access to lines that had once been unfathomably remote. “We would get dropped in the mountains and link up these runs where you hike and ride and hike and ride,” he says. “I was like, Oh my God, this is where I need to be.” But he had misgivings about the means of ascent. “I knew, when I got in a helicopter, I was taking up resources,” he says.

1 month ago | nationalgeographic.com | Alex Hoyt

When Tayshan Hayden-Smith was growing up with his three siblings in London public housing, he dreamed of playing for Arsenal, the famous football club, and the family’s small garden became his pitch. He honed his skills dribbling between his mother’s rosebushes and lavender plants, his shots careening off her avocado tree. “It was like the garden versus football,” he recalls.

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