Tim Lapage

Tim was born in 1949 near the equator at Nakuru in Kenya, on the floor of the Great Rift Valley - an area now famous for its lake which at certain times of the year holds over 3 million flamingoes. Africa has changed a lot since those colonial days but growing up close to Karen Blixen's house in Karen, just outside Nairobi was certainly an interesting life. During his childhood he was lucky to spend time traveling with his parents not only around East Africa, but to South Africa, the Rhodesias, now Zambia and Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.

In 1971 after completing a business degree, he became a bush pilot, flying throughout Kenya Uganda and Tanzania, and completed 4 journeys to and from London in single engined Cessnas. Tim was privileged to have spent time getting to know some of the legendary figures of Kenya history such as George and Joy Adamson, creators of the Born Free story, Beryl Markham, and Donald Kerr and Sid Downey, founders of the legendary safari company.

In 1974 Tim went to fly for Gulf Air, national airline for the Gulf States of Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Qatar. He was lucky to find himself a captain of an L 1011 Tristar at the ripe old age of 29! Whilst there he began a marketing business and met his wife from the ranks of the airline! Being close to home Tim spent most of his holidays at home in Kenya, helping his friends fly their safari clients. In 1979 his passengers were Rhoda Ramsey and her family - a well known realtor from Utah. They invited Tim to visit them in Salt Lake City, Utah - three weeks later he was there, and was soon equipped with a ski condo in Park City!

After the Gulf war in 1991, Tim decided upon a change of lifestyle and came to Park City to live full time - but within a year he was off back to Africa taking his first Safari Experts clients from the U.S.A. He spends every year from June to September in Africa, hosting and flying his clients, and keeping up to date with what is changing.

There are few who visit and know Africa as well as he does!

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Tim Lapage Photo Gallery

Tim once had a real job! Gulf Air Boeing 767, 1990	Tim with Jane Goodall at the Lewa Marathon, July 2001
Kenya's first Olympic Gold Medal long distance runner Kipchoge Keino, at the Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah 2002	Tim and Larangoi, an orphaned one-year-old Black Rhino at Lewa Downs in 1997
Tim with George Adamson at Kora, Kenya, 1988	Tim's son, Charles, and a few of his friends, 1996
Tim at the Lewa School, July 2000	The team with Bungles at Ol Malo, 2001