Dehradun, Sept. 28 -- Borderless Planet Program - Exploring the entire natural world

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

When it comes to wide exploration projects in the modern age (as opposed to single event exploration projects), people try to achieve a 'logical collection' of related extreme goals, and many a time, that achievement is referred to as a 'grand slam'. For example, the popular Adventurer's Grand Slam' (sometimes called Explorer's Grand Slam) is when someone scales the 7 highest summits of the 7 continents and also reaches the 2 geographic poles. No small feat that, and till date around 75 people have done it. And that's a very, very exclusive club when you realise that 108 billion Homo Sapiens have lived and...