Who dis?

[Doctor Phibes]

Which famous individual was part of only the third group to reach the South Pole?

[Klaus]

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Edmund Hillary?

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[Doctor Phibes]

Give that man a dollar!

Yes, I was completely unaware until yesterday.

[Horace]

you mean unquantifiable risk taking is just what some people do?

I was watching the documentary Kon Tiki a couple nights ago, about an expedition from south america to the polynesian islands in 1947. Using period-appropriate equipment for the original settlement of those islands, in attempt to prove those islands were in fact settled that way. The expedition, on a balsa wood raft, did make it the 5000 miles, sailing the wind currents. But history has proven the thesis inaccurate. Ultimately it was a collection of adventurers who wanted to go on an adventure and were willing to risk their lives to do so. This is not terribly uncommon amongst humans.

[Loki]

He should be more famous.

I enjoy reading the life and adventures of men who go “where no man has gone before.”

[Mik]

You mean like trans people?

[Renauda]

Ten years ago I met this fellow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Swan

We brought him in to speak at one of our technical symposiums. Talk about an Type A personality. Very dry sense of humour, actually hilarious. What a charismatic and engaging speaker. His devotion and concern for the environmental integrity of the Antarctic is boundless.

[George K]

@horace said in Who dis?:

Kon Tiki

A wonderful book, as well. The author, Thor Heyerdahl, was the man who organized and said the Kon-Tiki. His nephew (I believe) is Chris Heyerdahl. Chris played "The Swede" in Hell on Wheels.

It's also a decent, but not great, movie. Gustaf Skarsgård (Floki) is in it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1613750/

The 1950 documentary:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042650/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt