Travel Around The World under 4 minutes with Tom Abercrombie

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Photographer Lynn Abercrombie shares stories of her late husband, Tom, and the amazing pictures he took from their 38 years of assignments for National Geographics. 

Tom Abercrombie first joined National Geographic Society's Photography Division back in 1955, and within a year he was promoted to foreign editorial staff. Throughout his 38 years of contribution with the National Geographic Society, he contributed a total of 43 articles and photographs for National Geographic magazine as well as a short film on the 1962 revolution in Yemen and the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.  

Highlight Biography Thomas Abercrombie's Career

1957 - He became the first correspondent to reach the geographic South Pole. 

1965 - First to discover the 6,000-pound (2,700-kilogram) Wabar meteorite in the Arabian Desert

1974 - Honoured by the Overseas Press Club as the Best Overseas Reporting 

1978 - Presented by the Royal Danish Yacht Club with the Baltic Cup

1984 - Charted the unexplored frankincense caravan routes across South Arabia.

1991 -  "Ibn Battuta: Prince of Travelers," in my opinion one of the best article written by Tom where he narrates the years he spent traveling through 35 countries—from Morocco to China

1994 - Abercrombie retired from National Geographic and became a lecturer and freelancer journalist.

2006 - Regrettably he died at the age of 75

My favourite quote from Thomas J. Abercrombie

"This is a story, a picture story, of two very lucky people before whom was spread out the greatest of treasures, the planet Earth. We traveled aboard a magic carpet, the one with the yellow borders, National Geographic magazine. During four decades we wandered over all the continents and left wakes across the seven seas."