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Photos Courtesy Erden Eruc

Seattle resident, Erden Eruc’s solo circumnavi- was introduced to mountaineering by my father at age 11 and gation by human power quest, which started as a always busy with athletics.” quiet obsession in the late 1990s, became a life In 1997 he came across a world map that was hanging on

A mission following the death of Göran Kropp, who the wall of an IT lab in Silver Spring, Maryland. “I traced died while rock climbing with Eruc in September of 2002. my ? nger across that map, and I wanted to take the journey

Born was the Six Summits Project, which has Eruc traveling to Turkey where I’m from originally. So I gave it a name, too … by human power … six continents and then scaling ‘Journey Home,’ and that became a quiet obsession. That’s that continent’s highest peak. how it all started.” “I have been active all my life as an athlete,” said Eruc. “I www.marinelink.com 25

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