Tusker Trail
Tusker Geografica head administrator
JAH MON!
For three hours we were transported to Jamaica and Ethiopia on Bob Marley’s reggae riffs, exhorted by guys in dreadlocks to “stand up for your rights”. From what geyser did this cry for freedom spring?
COTTON KILLS
Back in the late 70s, long before Eddie Frank would become a world-renowned expert in high altitude climbing, he made his first attempted climb of Kilimanjaro and almost never made it off the mountain alive.
TINKU: IN PRAISE OF PACHAMAMA
In Tinku, there are no belts to be earned and you can’t buy a ticket to a fight. This form of ritual conflict has remained the same for centuries and may be the last uncommercialized martial art.
THE REASON WE MADE IT
Frances gives a shout out to the 23 member Tusker Team for helping her family to top.
ALIEN LAND
For centuries, Socotra has left visitors bewildered and convinced that there is more to this ecological gem than meets the eye.
