Iceland 1999 - The participants
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The Intrepid Explorers
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Roger Wesson
The leader of the group: he took charge of the planning, the grant applications, the day-to-day movements on the trip, the post-trip reports, and this remarkable website. A hopeless dreamer, he hopes by the end of his days to have seen all the places mentioned in a book called the Reader's Digest Book of Natural Wonders. He won the Explorer's Beard contest by a considerable margin.
George Payne
George tried hard to usurp Wesson's expeditional throne, claiming that he was the better mapreader. The sight of George wandering the streets of Heimaey with a map of Landmannalaugar in his map pocket did not inspire confidence in this claim. George came a distant second in the Explorer's Beard contest.
John Carter
John was, on numerous occasions, the pacifying voice in the fearsome arguments that occurred regularly throughout the trip. Thanks to, or perhaps in spite of, John's interventions, no blows were exchanged. John's most admirable act of the trip was to donate by proxy a can of tuna to a baby puffin. He dropped out on day 3 of the Explorer's Beard Contest.
