Adventurer Pelton Recounts Ten-Day Kidnapping Ordeal
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.29.03 | 10:49 AM ET
Robert Young Pelton, who was recently kidnapped and released by a right-wing paramilitary group in Panama’s Darién Gap while on assignment for National Geographic Adventure, talked about the experience in an interview posted yesterday on the National Geographic Web site. Did Pelton feel like he tempted fate by going to a region known for its high rate of kidnappings and murders? “I tempt fate by going to the grocery store,” he said. “The reality is that there’s no safe activity.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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