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Charlie Walker

What kickstarted your career as an adventurer?

I never expected this to become a living — it happened organically. Throughout university, I’d scrape together whatever I could to do some sort of trip during the summer, booking the most affordable flight to a city I’d never heard of. I fell in love with the places in between, the empty places.

After I graduated, I flew into Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia,

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