RICHARD WIESE

ENTERTAINMENT
Casey Affleck Explores the Explorers Club
By Regina Weinreich, Contributor
Author, 'Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics'
ENTERTAINMENT
Kon-Tiki at The Explorers Club and in Battery Park City
By Regina Weinreich, Contributor
Author, 'Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics'
The new Kon-Tiki was shot in both English and in Norwegian with the actors fluent in each language. Last week, in anticipation of the film's opening and an exhibition of the raft, The Weinstein Company hosted a luncheon for a small group at The Explorers Club.
TRAVEL
Afloat In Canada's Islands Of Beauty
By Richard Wiese, Contributor
Host of Born to Explore
It floated up to the shore in the form of a volleyball with "Japan Volleyball Association" stamped on it, accompanied by Japanese soda bottles. It was clearly debris from that terrible tsunami that tragically hit Japan in March of 2011.
TRAVEL
WATCH: Getting Dirty In Morocco
By Richard Wiese, Contributor
Host of Born to Explore
I've always felt that in order to understand people from another culture or a profession, you need to walk in their shoes. Or, in the case of the famous tanneries of Morocco, stomp barefoot in the byproducts of pigeons.
TRAVEL
WATCH: Eating Rotten Shark With A Viking
By Richard Wiese, Contributor
Host of Born to Explore
I'm no food critic, but imagine eating the contents of a bait box left out in the sun for days. That's what it tasted like.
TRAVEL
WATCH: An Amorous Chilean Horse
By Richard Wiese, Contributor
Host of Born to Explore
At a ranch near Santiago, Chile, I spoke with Gonzalo Vial, an accomplished horse whisperer known to form close personal relationships with his horses. One horse grew amorous.
TRAVEL
Mount Kilimanjaro Is A Difficult Metaphor To Climb
By Richard Wiese, Contributor
Host of Born to Explore
The next day, we climbed the bowl-like side of the Great Barranco Valley and, by early afternoon, we reached our camp at Lava Tower, a 200-foot spur of orange volcanic rock.
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PHOTOS: A Hard-Won Lesson In Belize
By Richard Wiese, Contributor
Host of Born to Explore
Only when vividly aware of the fragility of life do I know its true value.
TRAVEL
PHOTOS: Meeting A Survivor On Everest
By Richard Wiese, Contributor
Host of Born to Explore
There were yak traffic-jams, forests of flowers and children playing with tires around yak-dung fires. At night the sky opened, a ceiling punctured by the brightest stars I had ever seen.
TRAVEL
New Travel TV Show Explores 'Under The Radar' Australia
By Paul Brady