What makes a true adventure? What is the difference between an adventurer and a traveller? And in the age of technology, is there any uncharted territory left to explore? Australian adventurers and travel writers Chris Bray, Lincoln Hall and David Smiedt discuss with participating chair Mark Dapin.
DAVID SMIEDT (LOCAL) DAVID SMIEDT is the author of Boom Boom: 100 Years of Australian Comedy, Delivering the Male, Prince Charming: How to Pick the Stayers from the Players, Are We There Yet?: Chasing a Childhood Through South Africa and From Russia With Lunch: A Lithuanian Odyssey. He has contributed to the anthologies Girls’ Night In 2: Gentlemen By Invitation, Girls’ Night In 3: Big Night Out and written for Cleo, Madison, Home Beautiful, GQ and Sunday Life. David chafes in humid climates, will drink anything with an umbrella in it and is the only journalist in Australian publishing history to contribute to Ralph and Your Garden in the same month.
LINCOLN HALL (LOCAL) LINCOLN HALL OAM is one of Australia’s best-known mountaineers whose climbing career has spanned three decades. In 2006 he survived a night on Mt Everest’s peak alone after being left for dead. His remarkable recovery and rehabilitation enabled him to write the bestselling books Dead Lucky and Alive in the Death Zone.
CHRIS BRAY (LOCAL) CHRIS BRAY has forged an exciting career by combining his passion for photography and writing together with his engineering degree to developing innovative approaches to adventuring. Chris is the Australian Geographic Young Adventurer of the Year and Spirit of Adventure awardee, as well as chairman of the Australia & New Zealand chapter of The Explorers Club. He has started several small businesses and is Canon’s ambassador for digital photography in Australia. When not traversing remote Arctic islands, writing articles or sailing the Southern Ocean, Chris is a successful speaker, encouraging others to reach for their own life goals.
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MARK DAPIN (LOCAL) MARK DAPIN is an author, journalist, editor and lecturer. He has published three non-fiction books, Sex & Money, Fridge Magnets are Bastards and Strange Country, and works as a features writer and weekly columnist for Good Weekend magazine. In a previous life, he was the editor of Ralph magazine. His first novel will be published in October this year.
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