07 Oct KON TIKI “T3” LEADERSHIP: THOR HEYERDAHL
The visionary Norwegian adventurers and ethnographer, Thor Heyerdahl, was born October 6, 1902. He treated oceans as bridges, not barriers. Heyerdahl is most famous for his 1947 “Kon Tiki” expedition. He sailed 5,000 miles across the eastern Pacific in 101 days on a hand-built 40-square-foot raft to demonstrate ancient peoples could have conducted long sea voyages from South America - Polynesia to establish contact between societies. I read a book about the expedition in elementary school and wanted to be an adventurer! A 1952 documentary film about Kon-Tiki was awarded an Oscar. During Heyerdahl’s “Ra II” expedition of 1970, he...