| Re: UniMan Gutting It Out: Needs New gear
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<Pine.LNX.3.96.1040701082354.5016D-100000@servadio.df.unipi.it>,
Sergio SERVADIO <servadio@mail.df.unipi.it> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Cycle America wrote:
> > So I talked to Patrick last night for a good while.
> > He ?s going to try and call every few days and I'm
> > going to try and relay his whereabouts and mental and
> > physical state (he ?s tired, but still in good
> > humor).
>
> I'll never be able to comprehend the rationale motivating people to such
> endeavours. Especially when they appear not to have thought out the
> hardships before embarking.
>
> There is an interesting Museum in Bolzano (Italy) where one can see how
> clever a traveller could be, and better be so, even on the most
> inhospitable terrain.
>
> Sergio
> Pisa
There was a swede but I can't remember his name. And this guy sailed a
21 foot boat that he built himself to india. Then he took out of the
boat a bicycle, rode the bicycle to the foot of Everest (I may have the
mountain wrong but it was a significant one) and climbed it solo.
Kurt
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