In 2015 I attended a talk at a North Vancouver library entitled “The First Crossing of the Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea.” A geologist, David Cook, gave the lecture describing an obscure journey half a century earlier, in 1965, in which himself, five other Australians and 13 local porters made the crossing of the […]
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A repository of interviews and articles related to the themes of exploration and discovery.
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- Ramsay Wood on ‘Kalila and Dimna’
- The Great Coastal Cleanup of British Columbia
- David Crerar on ‘The Glorious Mountains’
- Robert Twigger on Walking The Great North Line
- Les Stroud on ‘Survivorman Bigfoot’
- Daniel C. Taylor on the Search for the Yeti
- The North Coast Trail of Vancouver Island
- Mike Danks on Vancouver’s North Shore Rescue
- The Australian Star Mountains Expedition in Papua New Guinea
- Lost in the Boreal Forest
- Adnan Khan on The Rickshaw Circus
- Circumskiing Mount Logan
- Griffin and Tyrrell on Meaning, Mysticism and Mental Health
- Mona Hallak on ‘Beit Beirut’
- Traditional Deadfall Trap
- Liddle on Kluane National Park
- Richard Bello on Climate Change
- Richard Nahas on Integrative Medicine
- Review: ‘Godhead: The Brain’s Big Bang’
- Open Air Books and Maps
- Muhammed al-Idrisi
- Review: ‘Mirrors of the Unseen’
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