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The Art of Exploration: Art that Brings Omar Samra’s Expedition to Planet VII to Life

February 27, 2017
Omar Samra at the Wild Guanabana-Life Changing Journeys office. Credit: Enas El Masry

The sun in the seventh continent, Antarctica, never goes down in summer. It’s a full day of daylight, and that was when Egyptian adventurer Omar Samra decided to embark on his expedition to the South Pole in December. During his 10-day journey, Samra managed to climb seven mountains. Three of them had never been ascended, giving Samra the opportunity to name them. With the other four mountains, Samra took different routes to climb them. The Egyptian adventurer who climbed the world’s highest mountains decided on his latest expedition to make his adventure more vivid. His journey to Planet VII (Antarctica) was brought to life by illustrations that depicted his journey from the very beginning of the announcement phase until Samra concluded his journey and got back to South America. “The Art of Exploration” fuses the daily thoughts and feelings of Samra and the imagination of the illustrator. It encapsulates the adventure of Omar in the coldest, windiest and driest continent in 15 illustrations. About his latest expedition, Samra told Egyptian Streets that he wanted the exhibition to be a blend of reality and surreal. He wasn’t exactly looking for something that…


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