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1. I AM NOT A VERY ADVENTUROUS PERSON ON THE JOB MEANS FULL
2. I AM NOT A VERY ADVENTUROUS PERSON ON THE JOB MEANS PRO

But does all this mean that adventuring is a lost art? Hardly. Everest has been knocked off more times than you can count, they are paving a highway across the Sahara, and you can check out the secrets of the Amazon by satellite right from your laptop. Obviously, adventure isn’t what it used to be. Not rewards in a material sense, but in the immense satisfaction of setting your sights on an achievement and accomplishing it. Thesiger knew all too well that adventure offered greater rewards for a man than most other things in life. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples…It is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worthwhile the journey.” At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I did not go to the Arabian Desert to collect plants nor to make a map such things were incidental. “For me, exploration was a personal venture. I was content with that.”įor Thesiger, and for many other adventurers before and long after, it was the adventure itself that was the prize, and the experience gained from it was worth more than any commemoration. It was a personal experience, and the reward had been a drink of clean, nearly tasteless water. It would produce nothing except a rather inaccurate map which no one was ever likely to use. “For years the Empty Quarter had represented to me the final, unattainable challenge which the desert offered…To others my journey would have little importance. Recalling the first time he drank water without need to ration it upon his return, he wrote the following He succeeded, crossing the vast unknown of the Empty Quarter not once, but twice, between 19. Thesiger set out to cross this great expanse and planned to create a map of the region during his journey. It is composed of 250,000 square miles of the most deadly terrain on terra firma, with sand dunes that climb well over 1000 feet and summer temperatures over 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), an English explorer best known for his adventures throughout Africa and the Middle East and for adopting the lifestyles of the nomadic people he often stayed with, became famous as the first man to cross the Rub’ al Khali, aka “The Empty Quarter.” The Empty Quarter is one of the largest sand deserts in the world, compromising a large portion of the southern half of the Arabian Peninsula.

I AM NOT A VERY ADVENTUROUS PERSON ON THE JOB MEANS PRO

Perhaps it is best to look to an old pro in the art of adventure for some insight into the true reasoning behind it. What we need to realize is that it is not the discovery of new things that is important for the average man, but the understanding of ourselves which we often acquire through high adventure.

Although true exploration, in the sense of discovering new things, is now mostly the realm of astronauts and deep sea divers, adventure is available to anyone. The problem is that in our age of technological revolution we have written off adventure and exploration as things of the past, no longer necessary thanks to our newfound, ever evolving capabilities. To have grand adventures and be able to tell tales of them is central to manliness.

I AM NOT A VERY ADVENTUROUS PERSON ON THE JOB MEANS FULL

Adventure is the element of a full life that is perhaps most neglected in modern society, and it is one of the most crucial. For in true adventure we find much more than the cheap thrill of adrenaline, we find ourselves. What happened to living life to the fullest? Where is the daring adventure that we dreamed about as a kid? Many of us have lost the passion for adventure that filled our childhood, and as real men we should struggle to regain it.

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Chris Hutcheson.