An individual filled with stories only those who live on the bleeding edge of life can truly understand or appreciate.

FORBES: Connect

"The greatest living explorer" according to the Guinness World of Records, the undisputed king of narrow escapes, reflects on his life at the edge of reason -- and what it's like to lose your fingers to frostbite.

CNN: Quest for exploration

At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.

BBC: Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell

He plans to live a life of prayer in a converted monastery on the far northern edge of the Vatican gardens.

NPR: Pope Celebrates Last Public Mass As Pontiff

Your comfortable life has been supplanted by one of savagery and living on the edge.

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It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.

FORBES: Medialand

With his efficient, clever, and disciplined methods, Allio brings to life hidden inner worlds, revealing the post-medieval brutality perched on the edge of administrative and scientific modernity.

NEWYORKER: (director: Ren�� Allio; 2008)

Paradoxical deaths and destinies, yet they do not eclipse the case of Rousselot, of the enigma that imperceptibly enveloped his life, the sense that his work, his writing, stood near or on the edge of something he knew almost nothing about.

NEWYORKER: ?lvaro Rousselot��s Journey