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Luigi Wewege Dr. Jack Wheeler, dubbed the "Real Life Indiana Jones," by the Wall Street Journal, has been traveling and leading private expeditions for decades. As a professional adventurer, Jack made three "first contacts" by discovering tribes that had never been contacted by the outside world. He and his party led elephants over the Alps and retraced Hannibal's footsteps. He's a been a mountain climber since being the youngest American to climb the Matterhorn at age 14. His sky diving record was noted in the Guinness World Record as a record that cannot be broken was for the most northerly skydive at exactly 90 degrees North. In 2014 he completed a life goal of traveling to 197 countries (all 193 countries recognized by the U.N. and four that are not: Taiwan, Kosovo, North Korea, and Somaliland.) As a geopolitical consultant, he speaks and writes on how the history, geography, culture, religion, and political events are changing our world dynamically. He enjoys writing to share his experiences with his readers. His proudest accomplishment is his two sons.

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Ice Palaces and Jungle Tribes

  No one lives in this fabulous palace. Nor is this a city at night. Both are phantasmagorical sculptures of translucent ice. There are scores more like it here, each…
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The Island of FUBAR

All photos by Jack Wheeler. Nauru. Welcome to the world’s smallest country – a tiny isolated rock in a remote part of the Pacific, right on the Equator, 8.1 square…
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The Pamir Knot

All photos by Jack Wheeler The Pamir Knot of Eastern Tajikistan, the Wakhan of Afghanistan, and Northern Pakistan. Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. About 55 million years ago, the giant subcontinent of…
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The Saracen Tower – Almafi Coast

  Ahh, Amalfi. Is there a more wonderful place on earth to spend a week in September with your family than here? In a villa with a view like this?…
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Smugglers’ Paradise

This article was published in the Escape Artist Weekly Newsletter on July 23, 2018. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, please click here. This is a story about 21st century…
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Moroccan Magic

There is a magic in Morocco that few other countries on earth possess. Athwart Africa’s northwest corner at the Strait of Gibraltar, its north coast is the Mediterranean, its west…
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Beyond the Taj Mahal

Beyond the Taj Mahal For good reason, India is called “the sub-continent” – a world unto itself, 5,000 years old, 1.3 billion people enclosed within an area 1/3rd the size…
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Idyllic Isolation

  Kanton Atoll, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean. Okay, Escape Artists. If you really want to get away from it all, you come here. Named after an American whaling ship that wrecked on…
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Afghanistan – The Doormat of Empires

Afghanistan – The Doormat of Empires I first traveled through Afghanistan in 1963 at age 19. You could go anywhere. I met guys who bicycled from Herat to Mazar-i-Sharif to…
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Himalayan 75

All photos by Jack Wheeler Western Cwm of Everest at 7,000m/23,000ft, Everest to left, Lhotse straight ahead. Well, this is sobering – at least for me. Two months from now,…
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