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	<title>BORN OUT THERE &#187; Be First</title>
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		<title>Be First Recipient Takes Aim at First ‘Summit2Sea’ Expedition from McKinley Summit to Gulf of Alaska</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/07/20/be-first-recipient-takes-aim-at-first-%e2%80%98summit2sea%e2%80%99-expedition-from-mckinley-summit-to-gulf-of-alaska/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Be First recipient Jesse Shimrock has set out to be the first person to climb the highest mountain in North America (Mt. McKinley) and kayak the rivers that the mountain births, from its highest navigable source, all the way to the ocean, in one continuous push.
By Jesse Shimrock
After months of social preoccupation and impassioned planning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be First Recipients Fight Dangerous Conditions During Training on Mt. McKinley</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/07/19/be-first-recipients-fight-dangerous-conditions-during-training-on-mt-mckinley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>First Ascent Brand Team</dc:creator>
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Confined to a snow cave for 12 days by a blizzard during her last attempt, Be First recipient Christine Feret is making another push to become the first woman to summit Denali in the winter, alongside partner Artur Testov. Picking up from her previous post, Christine and Artur face tough conditions that threaten their ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be First Recipient Trains to be the First Woman to Summit Mt. McKinley in Winter</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/07/13/be-first-recipient-trains-to-be-the-first-woman-to-summit-mt-mckinley-in-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>First Ascent Brand Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christine Feret]]></category>

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Confined to a snow cave for 12 days by a blizzard during her last attempt, Be First recipient Christine Feret is making another push to become the first woman to summit Denali in the winter, alongside partner Artur Testov. Check back here for updates on her adventure.
By Christine Feret
We have just come back from McKinley’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be First Recipients Cycle the Americas</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/07/01/be-first-recipients-cycle-the-americas/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/07/01/be-first-recipients-cycle-the-americas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>First Ascent Brand Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vogel Family]]></category>

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Be First recipients the Vogel family – Dad, John; Mom, Nancy; and 12-year-old twins Davy and Daryl – are on the road and attempting to pedal the entire length of the longest road in the world – the Pan American Highway– from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina at the southern tip of South America. Check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Be First Sponsorship Recipients: Round 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/06/11/announcing-be-first-sponsorship-recipients-round-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/06/11/announcing-be-first-sponsorship-recipients-round-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>First Ascent Brand Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[88Bikes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Idaho Speed Traverse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ski Across Alaska]]></category>

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First Ascent’s Be First program is an opportunity to pursue your passion for adventure, to go for your summit—whatever that might be—and get sponsored to do it. The second round of applications to the Be First program is complete and many of our adventurers are either on their journeys or will head out soon. Read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Our Be First Sponsorship Recipients!</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/05/04/announcing-our-first-be-first-sponsorship-recipients/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.firstascent.com/2010/05/04/announcing-our-first-be-first-sponsorship-recipients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 02:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>First Ascent Brand Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bering Strait Kitesurf]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Shimrock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joby Ogwyn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norm Hann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shishapangma Descent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surfing India]]></category>
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First Ascent’s Be First program is an opportunity to pursue your passion for adventure, to go for your summit—whatever that might be—and get sponsored to do it. The first round of applications to the Be First program is complete and many of our adventurers are either on their journeys or will head out soon. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be First Launches Today. Apply Now.</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/10/05/be-first-launches-today-apply-now/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/10/05/be-first-launches-today-apply-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>First Ascent Brand Team</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.firstascent.com/?p=1584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve got an untamable spirit of adventure, BE FIRST is for you. The program is an opportunity to be partially or fully sponsored when you go for the summit or otherwise test your limits. We know the value of adventure. We’ve been there, many times. So if you’ve got a passion for pushing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Day Brings Perfectly Tubing Point Break</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/09/18/last-day-brings-perfectly-tubing-point-break/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/09/18/last-day-brings-perfectly-tubing-point-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yassine Ouhilal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arctic Surf]]></category>
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
May 1. Morning comes with fanfare and a parade. May 1 is a national holiday in Russia, leading up to Victory Day on May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Crosses into Russia to Surf Barents Sea</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/09/16/team-crosses-into-russia-to-surf-barents-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/09/16/team-crosses-into-russia-to-surf-barents-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yassine Ouhilal</dc:creator>
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
April 28. We’ve spent the last week surfing up and down the coast. We went back to “Broken Hearts,” and managed to score some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weathering Storms &amp; Healing at &#8220;Broken Hearts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/09/15/weathering-storms-healing-at-broken-hearts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.firstascent.com/2009/09/15/weathering-storms-healing-at-broken-hearts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yassine Ouhilal</dc:creator>
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
April 15. It’s been howling, raining and snowing for three days. The winds from the north are blowing at 25-35 knots. The surf is [...]]]></description>
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