Michael Crawley

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Michael Crawley is a a social anthropologist specialising in the study of sport, development, self-tracking and performance enhancement. He's the author of 'Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia' (Bloomsbury, 2020) and To the Limit: The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas by Michael Crawley (Bloomsbury, 2024).

7 fascinating lessons about why we push our bodies to the limit, according to an endurance-obsessed anthropologist

Why do we choose to do agonising feats of endurance? Anthropologist Michael Crawley seeks answers in his new book