The Travel Word » Antarctica http://www.thetravelword.com Local Voices Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 From End to End …….Tom Davenport’s Journey http://www.thetravelword.com/2008/12/08/from-end-to-end-tom-davenport%e2%80%99s-journey/ http://www.thetravelword.com/2008/12/08/from-end-to-end-tom-davenport%e2%80%99s-journey/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:48:00 +0000 editor http://www.whl.travel/blog/?p=130 One place really off the beaten track and which we don’t cover (as yet) is Antarctica. Nonetheless it is the destination of choice for an old friend of the whl.travel team, Tom Davenport from the World Bank Group, who is at this very moment crossing the continent.

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Thomas Davenport, seen here in a banner from his From End 2 End website.

I last caught up with Tom in Washington, DC, when he came with his wife Gail to the reception whl.travel put on at the National Geographic film studio to honour the winners of the National Geographic Ashoka Geotourism Challenge. This was just prior to Tom heading to Puntas Arenas to begin his journey.

Tom has had a rough time since December 2006, when at 46, he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. That journey led to the idea of travelling to the end of the earth to do something he had always wanted …….. another journey that he is documenting on his web site www.fromend2end.net.

Check out Tom’s dispatches……and please make a donation to one of the charities on his site supporting colon cancer research.

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