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A 57-year-old retired Google executive broke the record for the highest-altitude jump, but you’ve never heard of him.
J. Travis Smith is a freelance writer and longtime friend of Gear Patrol. He began his writing career as the sixth hire at GP and has spent the last decade writing about food, drink and travel for product-focused publications like GP, GQ and Hop Culture, a craft beer publication that he co-founded in NYC. He now lives in Boston, where you can find him running long miles, drinking chilled beaujolais and attempting to grow tomatoes in his garden.
A 57-year-old retired Google executive broke the record for the highest-altitude jump, but you’ve never heard of him.
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