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How to carry more than your own bodyweight (bbc.com)
1 points by mike_kamau 498 days ago
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At ~175lbs and ~15yo I carried 270 pounds of furs in three stacked packs, like a voyager, with the shoulder straps and a tumpline or forehead strap. For about ten seconds of stumbling around.