Category archives for Adventurers of the Year
Elephant Ivory Project: Young Explorers in DRC Continue Quest to Stop Elephant Poachers
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 22, 2011 By Kyle Dickman and Trip Jennings; Photographs by Andy Maser It's been a fortunate few days. We arrived in Kinshasa on Monday exhausted from 36 hours of transit and found the Congo just as hot as we left it two years ago. On Tuesday morning, we met with Dr. Teresa Hart, a 30-year veteran of…
Explorers Depart For DRC to Fight Elephant Poaching–One Vial of Scat at Time
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 11, 2011 By Kyle Dickman and Trip JenningsToday, I'm packing. After two years in the works, we’re kicking off the Elephant Ivory Project in earnest on Sunday morning when Andy Maser and I fly to Kinshasha, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a case of collection vials and the goal of saving a…
Ten Top Women Adventurers For International Women’s Day – Who’s Your Favorite?
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 8, 2011 Photograph by Ignacio Delgado To celebrate International Women's Day today, we decided to look back at ten women adventurers recently featured on National Geographic Adventure. Topping our list is Spanish mountaineer Edurne Pasaban (pictured), who won our People's Choice Adventurer of the Year vote this year. In 2010, she completed a nine-year quest to climb…
Alaska-Yukon Expedition: See Andrew Skurka’s Story in National Geogarphic Magazine
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 18, 2011 Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown. See the story, photos, and map in the March issue of National Geographic Magazine. About a year ago, Andrew Skurka embarked on the hardest expedition of his life—4,679 miles of skiing, hiking, and packrafting in wildest Alaska and the Yukon. You probably recall his thoughtful blog dispatches on this website.…
Video: 2011 Adventurer of the Year Edurne Pasaban – What Does Adventure Mean to You?
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 3, 2011 In this video shot in snowy New York City, 2011 People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year Edurne Pasaban talks about what adventure means to her. What does adventure mean to you? Add your answer in the comments area below. In May 2010, 37-year-old Spanish mountaineer Edurne Pasaban finished her nine-year quest to climb the world’s…
Legendary Kayaker Hendri Coetzee Honored With Sunset River Memorial in Uganda
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 14, 2011 By Andrew Tolve; Photograph courtesy Chris Korbulic The Itanda Falls in eastern Uganda are a treacherous, quarter-mile run of rapids lined by dense jungle and heaving with Class VI whitewater from top to bottom. Hendri Coetzee, the South African kayaker killed by a crocodile on the Lukuga River in December 2010, considered this “big water kayaking in…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Oarsman Leven Brown
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 24, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People’s Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can’t pick just one. Photograph courtesy of Leven Brown The Oarsman…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Climber Alex Honnold
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 23, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph by Corey Rich The Climber Alex…
Adventurers of the Year Tribute: Hendri Coetzee, Kayaking’s Underground Icon
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 22, 2010 Over the past few weeks, the kayaking community has come together to ask us to honor legendary paddler Hendri Coetzee in our Adventurers of the Year feature. Their voices were heard. This underground icon of the kayaking world captured the spirit of adventure on par with the world's greatest explorers. He will be greatly missed.…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Paddler Jamie Mitchell
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 22, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph by Jody MacDonald The Paddler Jaime…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Kid Climber Matt Moniz
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 21, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph courtesy of Matt Moniz Kid Climber…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Alpinist Edurne Pasaban
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 20, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph by Ferran Latorre The Alpinist Edurne…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Voyager David de Rothschild
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 17, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People’s Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can’t pick just one. Photograph by Court Mast The Voyager David…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Rower Roz Savage
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 16, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph by Court Mast The Rower Roz…
Adventurers of the Year Update: Trip Jennings’s Elephant Ivory Project Goes Local
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 16, 2010 Photograph by Rachel Meyer We first met kayaker and filmmaker Trip Jennings after his expedition to find unrun rivers in Papua New Guinea made him a 2007 Adventurer of the Year. Since then, he has traveled the world over, from Tibet to Brazil, making adventure films about rivers in peril. His latest project, though, involves…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Explorer Ed Stafford
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 15, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph by…
Adventurers of the Year Update: Colin and Julie Angus on Rowing Around the World
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 14, 2010 Photograph courtesy of Colin and Julie Angus In 2006, Colin and Julie Angus completed a human-powered circumnavigation of the globe in 720 days. We were so captivated by their good humor, skills, and determination that they were the obvious choice for our second Adventurers of the Year. Here is a look at what they have…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Circumnavigator Jessica Watson
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 14, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you can't pick just one. Photograph by…
Meet the Adventurers of the Year: Wildlife Migrations Tracker Martin Wikelski
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 13, 2010 Each day we will feature one of the 2010 Adventures of the Year here on our blog, starting with behavioral ecologist Martin Wikelski. Get to know them all in our photo gallery, then vote for your favorite for the People's Choice award—every day. You can even vote for a new favorite each day, if you…
What Was Your Best Adventure of 2010?
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 8, 2010 Just who are the 2010 Adventurers of the Year? Click here to find out. We just announced the 2010 Adventurers of the Year, each selected for his or her extraordinary achievement in exploration, conservation, and adventure sports. Their feats are truly inspring—sailing across the Pacific in a plastic-bottle boat, trekking the Amazon from source to…
Adventurers of the Year Update: Ed Viesturs on Everest at 50, Good Luck Charms, What’s Next
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 5, 2010 Photograph courtesy of First Ascent / Jake Norton. See photographs from Viesturs Everest expedition. Tomorrow we will officially announce the sixth annual Adventurers of the Year, each honored for their remarkable achievements in the world of adventure. Back in 2005, alpinist Ed Viesturs was named our very first Adventurer of the Year, a title he…
Adventure in 60 Seconds: Travel Apps Reviewed, Banff Kicks Off, Chupacabra Decoded
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 1, 2010 Check in daily for a look at what we are reading in the news…Mobile Travel Guides Can Help, But Trust BooksThe New York Times looks at what’s working and what’s not in mobile travel apps. Read the article >> Banff Mountain Festival Kicks OffWell, if you are reading this, you are probably not headed out…
Andrew Skurka Answers Your Questions on Expedition Planning, Grizzlies, the Ladies, More
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on October 19, 2010 Here Andrew Skurka answers your questions about his 4,700-mile Alaska-Yukon Expedition.See a photo gallery from the expedition and watch for the article in National Geographic Magazine in spring 2011. 1. What would you do without your mother? — George Eichman III My mother is certainly an integral and critical part of my trips, though my father should get some…
Alaska-Yukon Expedition: Three Ways the Expedition Changed Me
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 28, 2010 By Andrew Skurka, written from Boulder, Colorado, after finishing his 4,700-mile Alaska-Yukon Expedition See a photo gallery from the expedition and watch for the article in National Geographic Magazine in spring 2011. This past weekend, just two weeks after finishing my trip, I moved back to the exceptional city of Boulder, Colorado. My life does…
Big-Wave Surfer Maya Gabeira on Fear, Beauty, and Her Favorite Surfing Spot
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 27, 2010 By Tetsuhiko Endo; Photograph by Dove Shore, Redbull Photofiles. See more surfing photos of Maya Gabeira >> In her short, but brilliant career, Brazilian big-wave surfer and a 2009 Adventurer of the Year Maya Gabeira has made very few missteps. Discounting the slew of broken noses she has sustained, she is a four-time Billabong…
