The Deer Lake Sessions: Ali’s Mountain Retreat and the Art of Preparation

Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, was where Muhammad Ali went to become unreachable. Perched on a wooded hilltop in the Pocono foothills, his self-built training compound was part frontier homestead, part boxing monastery. Chris Smith’s photographs from these sessions – taken across multiple visits in the mid-1970s – capture the champion at his most focused and his […]

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