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Rub’ al Khali, UAE Anyone who thinks sandboarding is like


snowboarding is delusional — it’s nothing like snowboarding. You can’t turn on sand. You can’t stop on sand. You can’t do anything on sand except go straight down and crash. At least that’s the way it was for Gleb Osipov as he hurled himself off of these giant sand dunes in the middle of the Rub’ al Khali desert outside Abu Dhabi. I swear I heard bones breaking a few times, as this sand, unlike snow, is as only a tad soſter than cement. But Gleb just bounced up aſter every wipeout, leaving fountains of orange sand in his wake, dusted himself off, climbed up the dune and did it all again. He was a real trooper. Insane, but a trooper nonetheless. CHRISTOPHER WILSON // PHOTOGRAPHER


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