Thursday 29 September 2011

Congratulations to the new Knight of the Ibex Round Table

We’d like to welcome our new Knight of the Ibex Round table, Rick Antonson from Canada.
Rick is President & CEO of Tourism Vancouver and has been an ambassador for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Winter games. Rick is the co-author of Slumach's Gold, In Search of a Legend and in 2008, he published his third book, To Timbuktu for a Haircut; A Journey Through West AfricaRick is regularly invited to speak all over the world on the topic of travel. His personal journeys have taken him on a four-by-four adventure with his wife Janice and a guide traveling from Lhasa, Tibet across the Himalayas to Kathmandu, Nepal. He has circumnavigated the northern hemisphere by train with his sons Brent and Sean over five trips which included North Korea. More recently he joined an expedition to the summit of Mount Ararat, and travelled to both Iraq and Iran. Rick’s passions include traveling, writing and baseball.

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