o self-respecting adventurer can have failed to notice the continuous smashing of new goals in the outdoor sphere. Records are broken annually by new and more amazing demographics. Teenagers climb Everest and sail single-handedly around the world. Paraplegics and octogenarians do things that, fifty years ago, the fittest men (and women, if they’d had the opportunity) in the world couldn’t have achieved. Has the human race evolved superhuman powers compared to our ancestors of only a
