>From The Observer, 15 december 1996, p.14.
Who on earth led the journalist (Peter Beaumont, from Lampeter?!) to think this
Its an article about Fiennes, Branson and other continually-failing explorers,
'A continuing veneer of credibility is given supplied by the Royal Geographical
Society in Kensington. Unlike the National Geographical Society in the US [sic],
the RGS does little to sponsor real geography. Instead it functions as little more
than a social club for the well-heeled, paid-up members who pack its lectures.
"The RGS has become a social gathering that gives credibility to mundane
achievement", says mountaineer and adventure writer ed Douglas, who has spent
most of the last year in the Himalayas. "The media show absolutely no enthusiasm
for people who are out there doing the real thing [whatever that might be!]. Instead
there is a bias twoards the military and those who live in SW".'
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