From champion choppers and limber logrollers to a pole climbing world record, these lumberjacks (and jills) were a cut above the competition.
The Axemen Cometh: Scenes From the Lumberjack World Championships 2013
Tim Gruber and Jenn Ackerman for TIME
The Victors
Left:
Stirling Hart, from British Columbia, took first place in the 90-foot speed climb where he set a new world record with a time of 20.96 seconds. Hart also competed in the men's standing chop where he placed fifth with a time of 32.10 seconds. Hart received the scar on his face when an axe hit him while he was competing in a previous springboard competition.
Right:
Nancy Zalewski was named Women's All Around at the Lumberjack World Championships for a world record ninth time. Zalewski, 43, a native of Hayward, resides in Manitowoc, Wis., where she is a chemist.