Bill GreenArctic explorer gives philosophy for surviving climate change
May 16th 2008 02:36
The leader of Australia's first Arctic expedition, Earl de Blonville, has discovered a philosophy for the world to apply to climate change. To begin preparing for the needs of the philosophy it requires an understanding of how we're going to be effected by the accelerating change.
Earl, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, has led five expeditions to the Arctic and has absorbed the culture of not only the Innuit who survived severe climate conditions in Greenland for centuries, but also skills of indigenous desert dwellers. Scientists and observers of polar icecaps have predicted not only severe drought for the planet but also catastrophic storms (the Burmese disaster is just one example), and Earl’s understanding of how to survive such conditions is preparing for them mentally and physically. Knowing the extremes of weather and the way they test your knowledge, mental stability and survival gear, is the beginning of staying alive.
Earl is to publish a book in the coming weeks – The Seventh Journey – that takes the reader deep into the horrendous weather conditions of the east coast of Greenland. We are shown the practical skills and tricks necessary to cope with the changing weather conditions on a kayaking horror trip down Greenland’s east coast as winter is coming on. Above all it examines the strengths of the expeditionary team and how each decision made under pressure has to draw on coolness and common sense, for wrong decisions are tracked and the consequences revealed.
For explorers and adventurers - unlike the rest of the planet’s population – there is a love of danger and adrenaline runs. However Earl recommends trips to those areas where extreme weather conditions prevail, to get on top of the likely mental and physical conditions that arrive with the extremes of anything.
Earl, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, has led five expeditions to the Arctic and has absorbed the culture of not only the Innuit who survived severe climate conditions in Greenland for centuries, but also skills of indigenous desert dwellers. Scientists and observers of polar icecaps have predicted not only severe drought for the planet but also catastrophic storms (the Burmese disaster is just one example), and Earl’s understanding of how to survive such conditions is preparing for them mentally and physically. Knowing the extremes of weather and the way they test your knowledge, mental stability and survival gear, is the beginning of staying alive.
Earl is to publish a book in the coming weeks – The Seventh Journey – that takes the reader deep into the horrendous weather conditions of the east coast of Greenland. We are shown the practical skills and tricks necessary to cope with the changing weather conditions on a kayaking horror trip down Greenland’s east coast as winter is coming on. Above all it examines the strengths of the expeditionary team and how each decision made under pressure has to draw on coolness and common sense, for wrong decisions are tracked and the consequences revealed.
For explorers and adventurers - unlike the rest of the planet’s population – there is a love of danger and adrenaline runs. However Earl recommends trips to those areas where extreme weather conditions prevail, to get on top of the likely mental and physical conditions that arrive with the extremes of anything.
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