Orienteering

Simon Beck's snow art at Lake Louise, Alberta.

With just a compass and a pair of snowshoes, Simon Beck creates art

Arts

Some people use snowshoes to exercise, or even just to get from point A to point B in the snow. But Simon Beck has turned them into his own kind of a paintbrush, using big, snowy fields as his canvas.

Team Peak Performance walks with stray dog Arthur during a stage of the 430-mile Adventure Racing World Championship.

A stray dog adopts a team of Swedish trekkers on an endurance race in the Amazon

Sports
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