I Was once a Tuareg

To avoid distinguishing myself from my Tuareg friends on a 102-camel salt caravan across the Tenere, one of the Sahara's most dangerous regions, I wrapped my face up like theirs, though not all the way to the eyes. At age 30 I was reporting on the caravan on assignment for National Geographic.

 

A year earlier, over 30 days, I had ridden a camel with the Tuareg from Agadez, Niger, to Tamanrasset, Algeria. My story had made the cover of Venture magazine and led me to the National Geographic assignment. It also ended as a cover story and would be followed by many more adventure stories in that magazine.

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Pour eviter de me distinguer entre mes amis Tuareg au milieu d'une caravane de sel de 102 chameaux qu'a l'age de 30 ans je suivis durant pres d'un mois a travers le Tenere, l'une des regions les plus dangereuses du Sahara, je me suis fait habiller par eux.

 

L'annee precedente j'avais deja voyage a chameau un mois entre Agadez, au Niger, et Tamanrasset, en Algerie. Cela m'avait valu un reportage en couverture dans Venture magazine et un contrat de National Geographic pour cete nouvelle aventure, qui resulta en un nouvel article de couverture et bien d'autres aventures pour ce magazine.