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A journey that decided maps weren't enough and demanded suffering on purpose.
means An organized journey undertaken with a specific purpose, typically exploration, research, war, or reaching a difficult destination.
from From Latin expeditio, the noun of action from expedire, literally 'to free the feet' — ex- (out) plus pes, pedis (foot) — the image being to unshackle, to make ready to move. The same root that frees your feet to march gives us 'expedite.' The disentangled foot became the readied soldier, the readied soldier became the campaign, and the campaign became any purposeful trek into the unknown.
- word root
- From Latin meaning to free the feet from shackles
- cost
- Everest expeditions can exceed sixty thousand dollars per person
- failure rate
- Many polar expeditions historically lost their entire crew
- odd cargo
- Shackleton's Antarctic crew brought a banjo for morale
lewis and clark expedition — 1804-1806 journey from st. louis to pacific ocean exploring newly acquired louisiana territory
everest 1953 — edmund hillary and tenzing norgay first confirmed summiteers of world's highest peak
columbus 1492 — three-ship voyage across atlantic that reached caribbean islands for european exploration