Adventure Journalist on Extreme Exploration

Known by many as “the walking bucket list”, adventure journalist and 30-year Forbes writer Jim Clash will join us to share his perspectives on risk taking, fear, and adrenaline, as well as some anecdotes from his long-standing career covering classic rock and its personalities. With real experiences that include everything from climbing Mt. Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary and finding the bottom of the world in 1960 (36,000 feet down in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench), to personal interviews with Neil Armstrong and enjoying the latest Blue Origin space ride, the stories are epic to say the least.

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The ticket price below includes a boxed lunch for you to enjoy during the program. 

About Jim Clash

Jim Clash covers extreme adventure and classic rock. Over three decades of writing for Forbes, Clash, who holds an MBA from Columbia University, has penned four books, most recently Amazon bestseller “Amplified,” about ‘60s music. His first-person stories include supersonic flights in eight separate aircraft pulling up to 9 Gs and flying to 84,000 ft; driving a Bugatti at 253 mph and Indy cars at 200 mph; expeditions to the North and South Poles; summiting the Matterhorn and 23,000-ft. Aconcagua; a C-130 flight through Category V Hurricane Dorian; chasing tornadoes; riding jet skis on 60-ft waves in Portugal; a U-2 flight to the edge of space; bullfighting; being shot point-blank in a ballistics jacket, and more. Interviews include Neil Armstrong, Mario Andretti, John Glenn, Edmund Hillary, Roger Bannister, Grace Slick, Joe Frazier, Chuck Yeager and Edward Teller. For fun, Jim gives 170-mph rides at Daytona speedway. He’s a former director at The Explorers Club, and cohosts the podcast “Risky Business.