The 16-Day Hike Through Snow, Ice, and Live Volcanoes You’ll Kill to Go On
Secret Compass will lead you safely through the Land of Fire and Ice (otherwise known as Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula)—if you’re brave enough.
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As a British military commander, Tom Bodkin spent seven years cliff-hanging in Iran’s Zagros Mountains and training for jungle warfare in the rain forest of Brunei. After leaving the armed forces in 2011, he created Secret Compass, a company that sends adventurous travelers on Special Forces-like missions.
“We look for the wildest places we can find,” Bodkin says. “The highest peak in Ethiopia, a remote coast in Madagascar, and the ancient petroglyph sites of Panama.”