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Richard Bangs Biography
Richard Bang is an American author and a television personality focusing on international travel. He is the host and executive producer of a series of American Public Television specials like Richard Bangs Quests and Richard Bangs Adventures with the purpose.
Richard Bangs Age
Richard was born on August 24, 1950. He is 69 years old as of 2019.
Richard Bangs Family
Bangs has not disclosed his early life on media or even the place he was born.
Richard Bangs Wife
Bangs has not disclosed any information concerning his wife or children but soon will be updated.
Richard Bangs Education
There is no information regarding his educational background but soon will be updated.
Richard Bangs Career
His college summers were spent as a Colorado River guide in the Grand Canyon. After college, he and his friends connected a plan to run wild rivers of Ethiopia. Bang and his crew successfully ran the Awash River in Ethiopia in February 1973, and at that point, his identity as a river guide was solidified.
Bang and his friends figured out that they could finance a return trip or two by taking clients along. So they did on the Omo in Ethiopia and Sobek expeditions was born at that time named in gratitude for the Egyptian crocodile god who may have spared their lives on those first early descents. Between 2001 and 2002 Bangs served as the president of Outward Bound.
His articles and essays have also appeared in so many places like The New York Times, Slate and The Huffington Posts. He has authored 19 books in number. One of his book, Lost Rivers, won the National Outdoor Book Award in the lecture category and the Lowell Thomas Award for the best book.
Richard Bangs Net Worth
Richard made money by Authors niche. For all time, at the moment, 2019 year, Richard earned $67 Million. Exact sum is $67000000.
Richard Bangs Internet
He was the founder and editor chief of Mungo Park which is a pioneering Microsoft travel publishing effort. He was also part of the founding executive team of Expedia.com and also served as its editor at Large.
Bang was the creator and the publisher of Expedia Travel Magazine, executive producer of Expedia Radio, founder and executive director of Expedia Cafes. He also founded the Well-Traveled feature or Slate and was founding editor and executive producer of Great Escapes at MSNBC.com. He also ran and founded First and Best for MSN, and in 2005 founded and headed up Richard Bangs Adventures for Yahoo! News.
Richard Bangs Movie
He was hired as a stuntman for the film of Killing at Hells Gate in 1981, where a whitewater rafting party is terrorized during a trip down the river. He also produced, River of the Red Ape in 1991 and in 1997, he produced The Last Wild River Ride, a Turner Original Production about the team exploring Ethiopia’s Tekeze River.
In 2005, he co-directed the IMAX Film called Mystery of the Nile which tells the story of a team of explorers, led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown, that spend 114 days making their way along all 3,260 miles of the river to become the first to complete a full descent of the Blue Nile from source to sea in history.
Richard Bangs Twitter
Why They Thrive: The Secret of Bliss in The Republic of Georgia https://t.co/hQb3nJbww1
— Richard Bangs (@richardbangs) August 7, 2019
Richard Instagram
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