RISK TAKERS.

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    • Subject Terms:
      CONGO (Democratic Republic); SOUTH Sudan
    • Subject Terms:
      JENNINGS, Trip; THOMPSON, Lonnie; SEAMAN, Jill
    • Abstract:
      The article presents conversations with several individuals described as risk-takers in their respective fields. Kayaker and conservation activist Trip Jennings recounts getting death threats while doing conservation work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Glacier researcher Lonnie Thompson describes lightning strikes on mountaintops. Physician Jill Seaman discusses trying to address a disease epidemic in rural areas of South Sudan.