Global expedition leader featured in CAROLINIAN magazine
December 18, 2016
Adventurer Tom Mullikin said to have “reputation as an extreme explorer”
Maj. Gen. Thomas Stowe “Tom” Mullikin is the topic of a feature appearing in the winter 2017 edition of CAROLINIAN magazine, the official publication of the University of South Carolina (USC).
The story entitled, PEAK PERFORMANCE, describes the life, work, adventures and early obstacles of a man – Mullikin – who in Sept. was named a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC “expert,” and is presently on-track to becoming the first human to have both climbed the world’s seven great summits and recorded SCUBA dives in all five oceans. Mullikin has already logged the dives – including certified ice dives – and he has climbed four of the seven; as well as many of the world’s other highest mountains.
“An unrelenting wind howls over the mountain’s uppermost ridge as Tom Mullikin trudges toward the summit, sleet pellets striking his goggles in the -30 degrees cold,” writes Chris Horn, editor of CAROLINIAN and director of the Writers’ Group at USC. “There’s little room for error on Mt. Elbrus, southern Russia’s 18,510-foot peak, one of the world’s Seven Summits. …”
[The full story continues at http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2016/12/alumnus_driven_to_new_heights.php.]
In addition to the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC honor, Mullikin was the subject of a multi-profile feature in the July edition of the national ABA Journal, a leading national magazine and the professional periodical for the American Bar Association. He was recently dubbed “environmental expert” by a leading oil-and-gas industry publication, and he received an award in May from the Boy Scouts of America in which a BSA director in S.C. said, Mullikin’s “amazing background as an adventurer and his leadership” is “remarkable.”
Mullikin is the founder and principal partner at the Camden-based Mullikin Law Firm and president of Global Eco Adventures, a non-profit dedicated to expanding public awareness of and appreciation for the global environment and the world’s most fragile ecosystems. Mullikin is a research professor in the doctoral program at Coastal Carolina University and a faculty member of the largest private university in South America, Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He also commands the historic S.C. State Guard, holding the two-star rank of major general.
