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DSV Limiting Factor - BostonCard - 09-08-2019
No, not a reference to the offensive line, but I wanted to share this great story (which has some Stanford connections, including a Beat Cal flag on Mount EVerest).
https://www.economist.com/news/2019/09/06/the-last-of-the-great-explorers?cid1=cust/dailypicks1/n/bl/n/2019096n/owned/n/n/dailypicks1/n/n/NA/304761/n
The economist is usually paywalled, but you can get some stories free if you register. Long, but well worth the read if for no other reason than to distract from yesterday’s stinker.
BC
RE: DSV Limiting Factor - 82lsju - 09-08-2019
this is apparently a picture of him on Everest holding a "Beat Cal" banner
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4144/5183944122_b9b53607d9_z.jpg
RE: DSV Limiting Factor - 82lsju - 09-08-2019
here's an interview with him
Part 1
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2019/05/14/businessman-victor-vescovo-sets-new-world-depth-record-for-mariana-trench-dive/#3e05cf55d0b3
Part 2
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2019/05/15/victor-vescovo-finds-life-but-trash-too-at-the-bottom-of-the-mariana-trench/#386684af465f
Part 3
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2019/05/18/victor-vescovo-used-50-million-of-his-own-money-to-set-world-depth-record/#2146bf2e15e6
RE: DSV Limiting Factor - BostonCard - 09-09-2019
(09-08-2019, 05:34 PM)82lsju Wrote: this is apparently a picture of him on Everest holding a "Beat Cal" banner
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4144/5183944122_b9b53607d9_z.jpg
Hmmm, the description in the Economist piece suggests that the weather was lousy when he went up, and that there was basically nothing to see. I wonder whether he went up again, or if the Economist overstated it, or if that’s not his picture.
In any case, credit to him for taking Beat Cal to the top of the world.
BC
RE: DSV Limiting Factor - 82lsju - 09-09-2019
from the Daily, photos of "Beat Cal" on the seven summits
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/11/19/beat-cal-on-the-7-summits/