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Mike Horn: Adventurer With a Cause 麥克·侯恩：肩負使命感的冒險家
Meet the man who's living life to the fullest and sharing his experiences
by Pamela Osment

Professional adventurer Mike Horn never met a challenge he didn't welcome. In fact, according to Horn, "The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible."
  As a child in Johannesburg, South Africa, Horn excelled at sports and loved adventure. But it wasn't until he moved to Switzerland in 1990 that his life of adventure really began.

Horn's expeditions
  Horn had always loved sports and taking risks, and he was known for his crazy sports feats. He traveled in the South American Andes Mountains in the early 90s and then in 1997 crossed the entire continent on foot. He finished by floating 7,000 km down the Amazon River! In 1999, Horn began a solo trip around the world following the equator, without the use of any motor-powered transportation. When he finished successed 17 months later, he became the first person to accomplish the feat.
  Horn's biggest challenge to date came in 2006. He and a fellow adventure walked from Russia to the North Pole in the Sunless winter. Traveling through the winter darkness, he encountered polar bears and many other dangers.

words
accord      An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
excel       If someone excels in something or excels at it, they are very good at doing it.
expedition   An expedition is an organized journey that is made for a particular purpose such as exploration.
solo        You use solo to indicate that someone does something alone rather than with other people.
accomplish If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.