Erling kagge biography of rory
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Erling Kagge
There cannot be many explorers who are conversant with the work of Immanuel Kant, and even fewer philosophers who have skied to the uttermost ends of the Earth.Erling kagge biography of rory
Smack dab in the middle of this all-but-non-existent Venn diagram is Erling Kagge. The 53-year-old Norwegian entered history on May 4th 1990 upon completing the first unsupported ski journey to the North Pole, and again in 1993 as the first man ever to walk alone to the South Pole.
He followed this feat one year later by becoming the first in history to walk unsupported to the top and bottom of the world and to reach the summit of Everest. By then he had already sailed across the Atlantic (twice), rounded Cape Horn and sailed to Antarctica and back.
He’d also earned a law degree from the University of Oslo, and between the North Pole and South Pole expeditions worked as a lawyer for Norsk Hydro. What was there to do after Everest but spend a year reading philosophy at Cambridge?
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