About Jim Clash:
Journalist Jim Clash is an Explorers Club Fellow whose
adventures include driving the Bugatti Veyron at its top speed of 253
mph; skiing to the South Pole; racing Indy cars at over 200 mph; flying
in a MiG-25 Foxbat to 85,000 feet at Mach 2.6; two visits to the North
Pole; driving a Fountain super-boat at 140 mph; and climbs to the
summits of Aconcagua, Mt. Blanc and the Matterhorn. Clash, a 16-year
Forbes veteran, also authored the critically acclaimed book, "To the
Limits: Pushing Yourself to the Edge in Adventure and in Business"
(John Wiley and Sons, 2003).
Clash has interviewed a number of of high profile adventurers and
iconoclasts including Apollo 11 moonwalkers Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin;
4-minute miler Sir Roger Bannister; ace test pilot Chuck Yeager; 3-time
Formula 1 champ Sir Jackie Stewart; the late Everest pioneer Sir Edmund
Hillary, H-bomb physicist Dr. Edward Teller and balloonist Steve
Fossett; 1968 200-meter Olympic champ and civil rights activist Tommie
Smith; tennis great Martina Navratilova; 3-time Indy 500 winner Helio
Castroneves; and 2-time Heisman Trophy-winner Archie Griffin.
In
the 1980s, Clash was drummer in the BizRock band The VPs. He holds an
M.B.A. from Columbia and a B.A. from the University of Maryland.
