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Science Posts. For over 4 decades Tusker has led thousands of intrepid travelers on awe-inspiring adventures around the world. Tusker’s fully supported treks allow you to fire up your passion for adventure in faraway places.
The Antikythera Mechanism
Imagine you are watching an old, silent movie with Charlie Chaplin starring. He walks down a street, wiggles his mustache, opens up his bag, and pulls out an iPad. “Wait!
PARKING ON THE SUMMIT
Tusker Trail’s founder tries to connect the dots between achieving altitude and his personal experience with Parkinson’s disease.
THOR HEYERDAHL
The third profile in our Badasses series takes a look at Thor Heyerdahl’s epic life-long pissing match with the academic realm.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
In Kenya, 85 percent of the population has no electricity. Riots recently erupted in Pakistan over ten hour power cuts. India and China turn to often environmentally disastrous dams to feed their underpowered grids.
The grid will likely not reach the remote corners of Mongolia or the vast rural plains of Kenya, but the wind and sun do.
