The story of the Mount Lico expedition began six years ago when Dr. Julian Bayliss, a conservation scientist and butterfly expert, spied a small forest atop a mountain using Google Earth. This summer, he assembled a dream team of climbers and scientists to explore it.
In 2018, what is left to explore in the world? It seems unlikely, say, that humans might find an untouched forest to study, someplace that hasn’t been bulldozed and burnt and exploited within an inch of its life for precious minerals or virgin timber. But that’s exactly what happened this past spring, when a Welsh researcher, Dr.
And you know that you’re standing on the last little remaining fragments of what was a kind of African paradise in a way. So yeah, privilege but shrouded in a bit of regret and a bit of sadness for what was gone. --- LIFE IN CAMP Over two weeks, the team slept, ate, worked, and socialized in close quarters. On many expeditions, personality conflicts are common, but the Mount Lico team got along unusually well. Bayliss: We had three camps on the go all the time.
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