Ergebnis für "Der Insider" in In der freien Natur

Entropy is a law of nature, the one predicting that "things fall apart." Spend enough time outdoors and it will eventually happen to you. When it does, who will pick up the pieces? Who will glue them back together? Professional search and rescue volunteers leave work, home, and their cozy beds to rescue people on the worst day of their lives. They buy their own gear, pay their own gas, and ask nothing more than to make a contribution to the lives of strangers who they'll probably never meet again.

Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by ancient instincts to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed, except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in large numbers. One such place is along Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio. There, the peak of spring migration is so spectacular that it attracts bird watchers from around the globe, culminating in one of the world’s biggest birding festivals. Now climate change threatens to disrupt patterns of migration and the delicate balance between birds, seasons, and habitats.

Hijo de un matrimonio de clase media que consiguió—con esfuerzo—dar un mejor pasar a sus hijos, su historia podría ser la de cualquiera, pero Leal ha aplicado en su vida algunos principios vitales que le han permitido, con tenacidad y rigor, superar condiciones adversas, forjar una carrera como empresario, crear una multinacional que da trabajo a cerca de 2.000 personas y convertirse—pese a vivir con una adversa condición médica—en conquistador de las más altas cumbres de cada continente.