Richard Bangs travels around the country talking about his travels around other countries. He shows slides of natives with thick, colorful paint on their faces. And he shows slides of breathtaking landscapes.
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So they cajoled and manipulated–and finally entrapped–an unsuspecting woman who went into her restaurant kitchen, pulled out a lemur carcass, showed it off to them, and then prepared it in a mushroom, ginger, and wine sauce.
Bangs documented the entire episode with photographs–from the cook and the carcass to the finished dish, which everyone in his group sampled. “It was good,” he says.
Fred Krehbiel, CEO at Molex, a company that manufactures electrical switches, connectors, and terminals, loved adventure trips so much he bought part of the company and became Bangs’s partner. “Adventure travel has nothing to do with age. It’s a mentality. People want to get a feel for the local topography. They want to feel cold at night and walk and hike and get rained on. They want to feel nature. They want to be challenged physically in different parts of the world.”
