National Geographic’s Enric Sala is a man on a mission

Enric Sala remembers the exact moment he decided he wanted to be a National Geographic explorer — one of the few lucky souls who launch expeditions financed and documented by one of the nation's most venerable institutions. A decade ago he was sitting in his office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. — an academic perch with an idyllic view of the Pacific Ocean — as he unwrapped the brown paper that used to cover issues of National Geographic.

"There's a guy walking in the African jungle looking like a maniac, with a bunch of pygmies behind him, exhausted," Sala recalled. "I said, 'Wow, this is what I want to do.' "

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Neil Irwin 24 Aug, 2011

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