Thursday, December 31, 2020
Organized by the Wharton Club.
Registration closed, event Rescheduled TBD
Join us on April 2nd at 5:30pm as Andrew Towne (Yale ‘05, Penn ‘15, WG'15) talks about his experience with the team that completed The Impossible Row, the world's first completely human powered ocean row across The Drake Passage. Known as the most dangerous 600 miles of open ocean on Earth, The Drake Passage extends from the southern tip of South America to the edge of Antarctica.
Andrew is an endurance athlete, speaker, lawyer and international business consultant. Andrew holds 5 world records in ocean rowing, US national championships in collegiate rowing and club running, and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He has also climbed the tallest mountain on every continent (including Mt Everest). Passionate about international relations, Andrew advises multi-national corporations on strategic and organizational issues as a Principal in the Boston Consulting Group's Minneapolis office. Andrew has lived/worked in 8 countries, promotes intercultural exchange as the Vice Chair of Youth For Understanding USA and has served the US government in a variety of foreign policy roles. Andrew earned his JD/MBA from The Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Morgenthau Scholar, Friedman Scholar, and Institute of Law and Economics Scholar. Andrew holds a bachelor's degree in political science with honors from Yale University and studied for a year at the University of Nairobi as an NSEP Boren Scholar.
A few links about the row:
Episodes 11 and 14 in the series highlight Andrew (and episode 3 introduces the Drake Passage)
Guinness Worlds Records: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2019/12/impossible-row-team-achieve-first-ever-row-across-the-drake-passage-604720
National Public Radio Morning Edition: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796160559/6-men-successfully-cross-drake-passage-in-a-rowboat
Associated Press: https://apnews.com/733e3eda7d1f318cc8beabd961c424d3
Minneapolis Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/minnesotan-in-impossible-row-recalls-fear-and-fury-near-antarctica/567052612/
