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    The call to adventure

    Jun 06, 2022 3 minutes
    Words JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
    Artwork
    AIDA NOVOA AND
    CARLOS EGAN

    Holding a conversation with Catherine Edsell - founder of CathAdventure, offering life-changing travel opportunities for women - feels rather like running after a bus calling out “Wait for me! Wait for me!” Her zest for life is infectious, as the many women who have joined her on expeditions to Africa, Indonesia, Mongolia and Costa Rica will attest.

    For Edsell, the call to adventure came early. As a student of theatre arts, she was, by her own admission,

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