It's Not a Job, It's an Adventure!

By: Mark HalperTue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:58 PM

Meet a new kind of Web geek. Randy Lagman, of Lands' End, is a virtual adventurer who has traded servers for snowshoes and hard drives for handguns. "The folks we work with are a different breed."

Consider the Viking crew: "As they approached land," Lagman reports, "one of the first things they saw was a polar bear. On a couple of occasions they had to get their oars out and row away, because polar bears are great swimmers -- and one of the few species that will go after humans with the intention of eating them."

Or consider polar explorer Will Steger. Says Lagman: "Steger was dropped off at the North Pole by a Russian icebreaker, and his intention was to walk back. That's a different perspective on life from what I'm used to. The folks we work with on these adventures are truly a different breed."

Mark Halper (markhalper@aol.com) writes on technology from San Francisco. You can learn more about Randy Lagman's adventures on the Web (www.beyond.landsend.com).