Explorations
Botting is an accomplished explorer in his own right. He undertook a systematic explorations of Socotra while in university, and was part of the world's first balloon over Africa, the first British balloon to fly across the High Alps, and the first vessel ever to voyage by inland waterways from the Amazon to the Caribbean via the unexplored rain forests of the Casiquiare and Orinoco.
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