Kira Salak: From Westmont to the World Mystery Cache
Kira Salak: From Westmont to the World
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This series of caches is dedicated to Westmont’s own Kira Salak. Perhaps her intrepid spirit of adventure will inspire others.
11-19-2017 This is now a traditional cache at the posted coordinates. The moving of it because of work crews proved to much with constant changing of ABC, etc. Thanks to Friendship7 for the help. Kira Salak was born in September 4, 1971 in Westmont. When Salak was 13, her parents sent her to boarding school in Wisconsin where she participated in cross-country activities and set a state level track record when she was 14. Though she began training for National and Olympic trials, she dropped out of the sport and decided to travel instead.
Kira graduated from Emerson College, and received her M.F.A. in creative writing (fiction) from the University of Arizona. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Missouri, with a Ph.D. in English; her two areas of specialization were 20th century American prose literature and travel literature.
At the age of 24, Salak took a year off graduate school to backpack around Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Island nation, and became the first woman to cross the country. Her first book, Four Corners: One Woman’s Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea, describes that journey.
After the book was published, an editor of National Geographic Adventure magazine asked her to write for the magazine and Salak's career as a freelance writer began. Salak gained a reputation for being a tough woman adventurer, surviving war zones, coup attempts, and life-threatening bouts with malaria and cholera (The New York Times described her as a "tough, real life Lara Croft and Book Magazine described her as “the gutsiest — and some say, craziest — woman adventurer of our day.”
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Salak
The final will be found at:
N 41 4A.BCD W 087 5E.FGH
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