By day's end, the sports bar at the Howard Johnson's fills with hardy men in hunting clothes.
In the 1930s, while determined and hardy men attempted to tunnel railways through solid pumice, a marginally less rugged Robert Byron busied himself describing Isfahan as a "common refreshment of humanity" in his classic travelogue The Road to Oxiana.
Small ships clustered about, and quickly learned that Captain Kidd had come here looking to line up 150 hardy men to go on a mission to hunt down pirates.
THESE are the sunset years of the Greatest Generation of American cartoonists, those hardy men of World War II vintage whose strips and panels dominated the newspaper funny pages over the last half-century.
But Kimmel can also toughen things up, as he proves with his newest collection for Carhartt, a work-wear brand for hardy men with callused hands and steely stares who nevertheless find occasions to don $410 canvas blazers.
These hardy men suffered ice and isolation, while fighting off scurvy and mutinous crewmen, but they ushered in the modern era of Arctic exploration at the turn of the 20th century with the insight that the key to success there lay in working with the weather rather than fighting against it.
Waking before dawn, these hardy men once needed hearty sustenance and the traditional breakfast was a porridge of thick, deliciously sour trahana, enriched with feta or their own sheep's milk yogurt.
The New Englanders had been "quite confident that the cowardly and effete French would be no match for their hardy men", but in fact the opposite was the case.
On the eve of the Balinese New Year, hundreds of villagers arrived at the beach here, the hardiest men carrying litters bearing effigies of Hindu deities.
Eventually, half-delirious with exhaustion, they staggered tearfully over the finishing line, the first and only victors in a race that had seen a couple of dozen of the world's hardiest men give up in despair.
