Contact local wilderness groups or adventure-based organizations to rack up some useful experiences to your name.
Both Mr. Donato and Mr. Hyman are members of the Explorers Club, an international organization of adventure enthusiasts to which the 63-year-old Mr. Fossett also belonged.
Although G.A.P. Adventures, a Toronto-based organization with an office in Bedford Hills, N.Y., does not specialize in student travel, its guided 10-day Voyage Galápagos trip has attracted people aged 18 to 70, said Jeff Hall, director of marketing for North America.
While running the now-defunct WB network, which he left in 2004, he commissioned a show called Global Frequency, a sci-fi adventure about a secretive global organization.
This member of the hadrosaur family, called Brachylophosaurus Canadensis, was excavated in summer 2000 by Nate Murphy, an amateur paleontologist at the Phillips County Museum in Malta, Montana, with help from Timescale Adventures of Choteau, Montana, an organization that involves the public in research.
The outpouring encouraged him to pursue an idea that he had begun contemplating while in Antarctica: an organization that would mix adventure, environmentalism, and education.
"We are here today embarking upon this great adventure of having a nongovernmental, commercial organization return to the moon and explore," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a statement.
All proceeds from the auction would go to A Kid Again non-profit organization, formerly known as Adventures for Wish Kids.
Surplus population, superior ships and weapons, well-developed military organization, and a spirit of adventure seem to have combined to cause this great movement.
