Tusker Trail
Tusker Geografica head administrator
CALABAR AND GRILL
It’s the summer of ‘78. Eddie was so far down the river (literally) that had the Earth ceased to spin, he may have been one of the last people to hear.
TUSKER’S BADASS OF THE MONTH: BOB CRISP
Tusker’s Badass of the Month is a new series debuting this issue. It chronicles some of the baddest, toughest, smartest men/women who fought good fights, made lots of enemies and were controversial, never conventional.
MY LAST GREAT MOUNTAIN
Okay, it’s not a Himalayan giant. In fact, it barely qualifies as a scramble. But when you are 72, your knees are shot, and your VO₂max is edging toward zilch, Mount Kilimanjaro (19,340-ft/5,895-m) can be a personal Everest.
BENIN JAIL
Anyone who says that youth is wasted on the young must have missed that page in the manual describing how to go out and grab life by the boleros when the call to adventure comes.
INCREDIBLE SEA GYPSIES
The Moken people have no written language, running water, or electricity. These masters of the ocean have managed to eschew modern civilization, making them among the least touched people in the world.
