In the five Indiana Jones movies, the intrepid archaeologist thrilled us with his adrenalin-fused pursuit of ancient relics and famous artifacts of antiquity. In 1929, two men undertook a real-life adventure into the Himalayan mountains in search of a different kind of treasure.
The men shared the same surname, and both sought to make their own mark on history apart from their father, former President Theodore Roosevelt. Like their world-famous father, Ted and Kermit Roosevelt loved hunting and exploring, and they thought their ticket to recognition as world-class explorers would be in capturing the one large mammal no other expedition in the world ever had: the giant panda bear.
