A4- Wednesday, February 1, 1984 - North Shore News

LAWRENCE BUSER is a lean, wiry ‘guy: full of -
restless energy. He is an adventurer, if not quite’in -

close.

He takes people in dugouts
up the Amazon, on camels
across the deserts of India,
diving in the Great Barrier
Reef, struggling through
-Nepal toward Everest.

Naturally enough, he loves: *

what he does; But more than
that, he has -managed to
transform his ideal fantasy
existence into a lucrative little
business that appears to be
on the lower slopes of an ex-
ponential growth. curve. He
made ‘$400, 000 last. year, .ex-

pects t
million dollars: this car, and

pa y that
small; groups’ “oft fellow. adven-

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turers, ‘to!'some’ "25--different

simply. that they
tf ‘the beaten

well ther: that: ‘or along:
paths so so beaten by: ‘time, such.
as ‘Marco. ‘Polo’s. old silk
route across'the Gobi Desert,
thai they-are: legendary.

At the:very least, ‘the trails
willbe. little-frequestted. For

instarice,-on ‘an expedition’ to’ *

Peru, the. -travelles: gets’ to
poke ‘through the remains of
the ancient Incan- Empire,

[Pulled from smoke ._|

AMBULANCE CREWS
rushed a North Vancouver
man to hospital Saturday,
after he was overcome by
smoke.

The unidentified man was
found by North Vancouver
City firemen when they

the Raiders of The Lost Ark tradition, darned ~”

_but not merely by hopping a

tour bus. Instead, the trip in-
cludes a rafting run through
the Sacred Valley of the In-

cas, a train ride across the
. High Andes, and a trek from.

there by foot through’ ruins,
villages and countryside.

A five-day camel caravan
across the Thar Desert in
western India has to rank
right up there as an adven-
ture, any way you look at it.

_ Ditto for 18 days of biking.

through. the remote.
grasslands and hills of Inner
Mongolia. And ditto again
(i'm sure) for snorkling atthe
time. the giant turtles are lay-

' ing their eggs on. ‘the | ‘Great -

Barrier Reef. These are not

‘lightweight tours.

Lawrence Buser ‘has singl-
ed out what he believes are
the ‘unique areas*’. of the-
world: -places like the ocean-
side temptes of.
Mahabalipuram, the . yak
routes::in the’ mountains of

Nepal, the ‘‘lost’’ rainforests.

of New Guinea;- the- ‘BOTRES.

and waterfalts reed ‘Nah han.”

ed, in fact, to fill a ‘vacuum.

left between the Great-Age of |

Discovery and the new age of

answered a fire call to a fifth-
floor apartment at 145 St.
George’s Street.

A pot had been left on the
stove in the apartment, pro-
ducing the smoke that
rendered the man
unconcious.

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but on the other hand, is not -

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