by Reece Rheinbach | Jan 16, 2017 | Asia, Inaccessible Places
The coldest town on earth. Those words are easily dismissed until one actually considers their meaning: This frigid place holds lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location in the world. People actually choose make their homes and eke out a...
by Reece Rheinbach | Dec 27, 2016 | Inaccessible Places, Oceans
Point Nemo. For me, this evocative name conjures images of nautical adversity, sea monsters, galleon ships, the Captain in Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ and of submarining and the age of oceanic exploration. The word “Nemo” is Latin, meaning...
by Reece Rheinbach | Dec 18, 2016 | Africa, Inaccessible Places
Namibia’s Bushmen tribes know this place as “the land God made in anger.” The Skeleton Coast was first seen through western eyes by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century. The men were so shocked by the desolate conditions that they dubbed it “The Gates of Hell” The...
by Reece Rheinbach | Dec 7, 2016 | Asia, Feature Three, Inaccessible Places
In our globalized and infinitely connected world, it can sometimes be difficult to imagine any corner of the globe that has not been thoroughly explored, documented, and homogenized by mankind. Sitting in a busy café on a city street, or driving through never-ending...
by Reece Rheinbach | Dec 3, 2016 | Britain, Europe, Inaccessible Places
In our globalized and infinitely connected world, it can sometimes be difficult to imagine any corner of the globe that has not been thoroughly explored, documented, and homogenized by mankind. Sitting in a busy café on a city street, or driving through never-ending...
by Reece Rheinbach | Nov 12, 2016 | Central America, Inaccessible Places
In our globalized and infinitely connected world, it can sometimes be difficult to imagine any corner of the globe that has not been thoroughly explored, documented, and homogenized by mankind. Sitting in a busy café on a city street, or driving through never-ending...
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