Word: expeditioners
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"He is someone who is always leading the 4 a.m. expedition to find the last open pub," Flanagan says. "He is the life of any party."
When veteran expedition leader Eric Simonson first started mountain guiding in 1973, webcasting was something spiders might do. News of climbing success - or failure - reached the outside world at roughly the speed of yak. Knocking off a big peak might be lauded in an obscure climbing journal, but as far...
Expedition climbing had become a spectator sport. The faraway world of life-or-death decisions and dramatic rescues now unfolds on our desktops.
Large-scale excursions, like Simonson's current 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition (they are searching for further evidence of exploits of the men in tweed), take along laptops, satellite phones and solar-power generators. And a technology specialist: it's his job to handle video and stills editing and encoding...
Feel cramped in your SUV? Relief is at hand in the eight-ton, 9-ft.-tall MaxiMog Global Expedition Vehicle, designed by Bran Ferren, and now featured in the high-tech "Workspheres" exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes...