Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 4, 1990 TAG: 9003042259
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: F-7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: WILMINGTON, N.C. LENGTH: Short
Now Jim Owens, an outdoorsman from North Carolina, has organized what he calls the first attempt to re-create the newspaperman's epic African search.
Owens will step off from Bagamoyo on the Indian Ocean on June 1 as leader of a 742-mile trek on foot across Tanzania to the fishing village of Ujiji, where Stanley found the missing Scottish missionary at Lake Tanganyika in 1871.
Owens has raised funds from sponsors and recruited a core team, but he is inviting applications from 12 experienced hikers.
They will gather at Tabora, a third of the way into the route, and hike the remaining 217 miles with Owens's team to Ujiji. (By rail, Tabora to Ujiji is 119 miles; Stanley detoured around a battle.)
Volunteers will be supplied with tents and food stocked on the expedition's Land-Rover, which also will carry medical supplies. Those picked must make their own way there, flying to Dar es Salaam and completing the 500-mile journey by Tanzanian Airways or by train.
Mailing address: Stanley Expedition, 321 Pemberton Drive, Wilmington, N.C. 28403.
by CNB