The challenge of exploring the world in the XXI century
The Forgotten Path of the Explorers in Nepal welcomes a new member. Mercedes Silvestre, adventurous 74 and my mother has joined the REO in Kathmandu to ride as a passenger and photographer in Bold, He BMW GS 1200 30 anniversary. We have come together the winding Kathmandu Valley and reached the city of Pokhara Nepal, gateway to the legendary Annapurna climbers so many lives have been claimed, as with the Spaniard Tolo Calafat and Navarre Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, whom the REO has come to pay homage as authentic century Spanish explorers.
Reach the summit should look something like what I feel when I reach a distant destination or hard after riding over a million stones
Many think that the climbers are crazy about climbing mountains to engage in risk of their lives but I understand them beyond what words can explain. There is something up there. Reach the summit should look something like what I feel when I reach a distant destination or hard after riding over a million stones. There is a special satisfaction in this. Something that takes us out of here. I do not know exactly, but I know it exists and is something worth. Really, worth it.
I travel by motorcycle to explore, explore writing and writing to thrill. I traveled to date, more than eighty countries and wrote a book of travels in Africa. Iraq, one of Zimbabwe, of Mauritania a Kazajistán, from Syria to Canada. I think today should be the traveler Spanish rider with more stickers on the bags and, however, still feel dizzy at the approach of a new frontier, of an unknown horizon. In this office, mine because travel writing is as professional bike, you never know enough or stops learning. All we now know for certain is that tomorrow will commit another blunder, that I will fall again in an error, you'll lose the right path.
Because it is still possible to explore, because it is always uncertain and because one is a novice on the road just found for the first time
That is so exciting motorcycle ride. Because it is still possible to explore, because it is always uncertain and because one is a novice on the road just found for the first time. Air transport has filled the world passenger round trip ticket, but traveling by motorcycle is, still, win. The lone rider is lost behind the horizon appears today as the heir of the medieval knight. Could move in a more comfortable, but chooses to suffer because swallowing dust, wind and sand becomes nomadic, In Browser, part of the landscape and history that tells.
And it is stories. Our history. But not that great history that is discussed in textbooks on battles, kings and empires. I mean the story of the young men who became great overcoming adversity. Our past is full of explorers, of Quixotes, Traveler thrown, of heroes whose time seems to have been. But, his adventures are so amazing that if we give them an opportunity, apasionarán us characters like the best action movie. They are characters like Captain de Cuellar in Ireland, wreck of the Armada that after seven months of flight, escaped from the English; Jesuit Pedro Páez or, who in the seventeenth century was captured by pirates and slave spent six years in Yemen before reaching Ethiopia and become a discoverer of the sources of the Blue Nile.
This oversight is unfair, but try to rescue his memory is also an opportunity for people like me think that the exploration is not over nor the time of the explorers. As the mountaineers who exceed their limits and motorists who travel beyond the horizon towards the same desire for exploration, crave the same emotions and when we reached the summit or destination, paladeamos a sweet victory, but only about ourselves because they knew the great explorers, nothing but fear and forgetfulness are our adversaries.
