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During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.
Yvon Chouinard
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Yvon Chouinard
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: November 9
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