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Tim Cope
Australian
Author
Born:
Dec 7
,
1978
Culture
Important
Me
People
World
You
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A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming a rarity in Mongolia, where mechanized transport is gradually replacing traditional means.
Tim Cope
Single
Carry
Rarity
Around
Becoming
Camel
Traditional
Camels
Replacing
Gradually
Where
Migration
Means
Transport
Using
Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.
Tim Cope
Time
Believe
Our
Intrigue
Russia
Had
Almost
Mission
Although
Been
Led
Baltic
Australia
Irresistible
Size
Pacific
Spans
Twice
Zone
Suicidal
When you come out of the storms and sub-zero temperatures into a tiny yurt, there's a sense that family love and care is the most important thing in the world.
Tim Cope
Love
Family
You
World
Care
Important
Sense
Out
Temperatures
Come
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Tiny
The Most Important
Storms
Thing
Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.
Tim Cope
Good
Yourself
Challenge
Extreme
Possible
Would
Share
Steve
Common
Common Belief
Belief
My three-year ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary was the most difficult, most revealing, and interesting of any of my travels. Travelling by horse, you're far more engaged and dependent on the land and other people than by any other means.
Tim Cope
You
People
Ride
Hungary
Difficult
Other
Three-Year
More
Horse
Most
Revealing
Than
Any
Dependent
Interesting
Land
Far
Means
Engaged
Travelling
Travels
Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.
Tim Cope
Me
Big
Imagination
Meeting
Summit
Impact
Had
Tim
His
Big Impact
Australian
Author
Ascent
Sea
Captured
Everest
Much of my journey in Kazakhstan was about understanding the legacy of the Soviet times and finding out what remained of nomadic.
Tim Cope
Journey
My Journey
Understanding
Out
Finding
About
Remained
Nomadic
Legacy
Times
Soviet
Much
The Khoton people are a small minority group of Mongolians renowned for living a traditional nomad life in the remote slopes and valleys of the Kharkhiraa-Turgen mountain range.
Tim Cope
Life
People
Minority
Group
Living
Valleys
Range
Minority Group
Small
Remote
Nomad
Renowned
Traditional
Mountain
Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.
Tim Cope
Me
Survival
Matter
Animals
Summer
Finding
Shelter
Desert
We can see every square metre of the planet on Google Earth. But there is no substitute for that sensory experience of going out into the world and discovering things for yourself.
Tim Cope
Experience
Yourself
World
Google
Every
Earth
Out
See
Discovering
Square
Going
Substitute
Sensory
Planet
Things
Reflective of the deep sense of gratitude and respect Mongolians reserved for wolves, there was a belief that only through wolves could the spirit of a deceased human be set free to go to Heaven.
Tim Cope
Gratitude
Respect
Free
Sense
Spirit
Only
Could
Through
Go
Wolves
Reflective
Deceased
Heaven
Human
Deep
Belief
Reserved
Set
In Kazakhstan, once you're someone's guest, it's really hard to get away - everyone wants you to stay. They believe that if you invite a guest, luck will fly into your house.
Tim Cope
You
Fly
Will
Luck
Believe
Everyone
Guest
Once
Stay
Someone
Invite
House
Get
Wants
Really
Your
Hard
Away
Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe.
Tim Cope
Black
Important
Met
Once
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Silk
Russia
Road
Where
Central
Asia
Capital
Across
Sea
Europe
In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed.
Tim Cope
Army
Took
Khan
Completed
Peninsula
Russians
Had
He
Executed
Catherine
Been
Refuge
Where
Burned
Turkey
Ground
Eventually
Conquest
Last
Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse.
Tim Cope
You
Experience
World
Every
Mood
Horse
Horses
Through
Come
Like
Know
Came
Go
Gradually
Much
View
I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.
Tim Cope
Eyes
Culture
Ride
Own
Back
Way
Would
Would-Be
My Own
Horse
Through
Take
Like
Know
Look
Nomad
West
Get
Wanted
Europe
Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you're going through, but it doesn't actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can't show you where the grass or the wells are.
Tim Cope
You
Thought
Become
Grass
About
Someone
Through
Crutch
Talk
Call
Hindrance
Because
Australia
Times
Going
Just
Where
Show
Help
Europe
Many
Actually
Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.
Tim Cope
Home
Family
Relationship
Learning
Age
Reality
World
Father
Become
Only
Lifetime
Had
Like
Shattered
Another
Felt
Passing
Childhood
Which
Far
Present
For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape people's lives and viewing the present in the context of history.
Tim Cope
Environmental
Me
History
People
Society
Fabric
Shape
Vehicle
Adventures
Know
Context
Coming
Conditions
Viewing
Deep
Lives
Travelling
Present
For the traveller, Kazakhstan offers more than just a staging post for the Silk Road, as is often perceived, and there is more than just steppe.
Tim Cope
Post
Silk
Perceived
More
Road
Than
Offers
Often
Just
Staging
Traveller
If you want to make the most of travel to Russia, it is better to leave tight plans and preconceptions behind and just enjoy the journey.
Tim Cope
Journey
You
Travel
Better
Enjoy
Russia
Most
Make
Tight
Leave
Preconceptions
Behind
Just
Want
Plans
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