In the upcoming series Rugged Individualists, we will chat with, and profile, a number of such iconoclasts who have pioneered in their areas of expertise, from climbing Mount Everest (Sir Edmund Hillary), to breaking the four-minute mile (Sir Roger Bannister), to forming a new genre of hard rock music (Cream), to developing the hydrogen bomb (Dr. Edward Teller).
Outside of town, Jaffna's shady lanes give way to a series of rugged causeways, one-lane bridges and sandy roads that traverse a network of islands, peninsulas and bits of land in the Palk Strait.
On the surface it can seem his starkest, most forbidding work: a series of rugged duets with only Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Mr. Ali on drums, each starting with a theme that grows exponentially into scale-jumping, rhythmic flurries.
Over the course of its deployment, the battalion established a constellation of bases and outposts in a series of rugged valleys that had served as corridors for insurgents moving men and supplies from western Pakistan.
In the west the Sierra Madre Occidental, a region of high plateaus that break off toward the Pacific into a series of rugged barrancas, or gorges, has served as a refuge area for the Indian groups of the northwest, as have the deserts of Sonora.
The Eastern Desert consists of a rolling sandy highland that rises abruptly from the Nile valley and merges some 50 to 85 miles (80 to 137 km) east of the Nile into the Red Sea Hills, a series of rugged volcanic, north south-trending mounorth south-trendingach a mountainheight of 7,175 feet (2,187 metres) at Mount Shāʾib al-Banāt.
In today's most perplexing bit of news, Sonim Technologies is announcing a partnership with Land Rover to bring out a series of rugged handsets bearing the British all-terrain vehicle manufacturer's logo.
As Sarah Kwak writes on SI.com, this series will be rugged (translation: borderline unwatchable).
Discovery introduced one more rugged series this month, "One Man Army," a contest of the quien-es-mas-macho variety.
Originally, the producers wanted to use costumes dating from around A.D. 500 to five the series a more rugged, earthy look than the ususal bejeweled Camelot regalia.
Lacie's Rugged series isn't so much rugged as merely protected from everyday life.
