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Tag Archives: Timbuktu

Should expeditions have a purpose other than shameless self-promotion?

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Jason Lewis

It’s a variation of the big “Why” question adventurers are always asked in media interviews. Why ride a bicycle to Timbuktu? Why be the two thousandth person to summit Mount Everest? Why row a bathtub to the North Pole?

Adventurer Jason Lewis questions the purpose of expeditions in the twenty-first century

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Posted in The big Why of Expeditions | Tagged adventure, Everest, George Mallory, rite of passage, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Timbuktu
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