Many human beings are born with a strange impulse to explore.  We want to go where we have never been – better still to places where few if any people have ever gone. This may explain why I went to considerable trouble to find my way to Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of land in the western hemisphere.   First I flew to Port William, Chile, the last airstrip down south. There I boarded a ship that carried me another hundred miles and paused near the Cape. Then I got into a rubber dinghy and paddled toward the shore.  After wading through shallow water covered by ... [Read More]