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Exotic geographica and mountain cultures. Cutting edge travel. Outdoor adventure: climbing (rock, snow and ice), skiing, (heli-ski, downhill, cross-country, telemarking), hiking, rafting, caving, mountain biking.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS         ***All seven continents***
Canada: Alberta, B.C., NWT, North Pole, Yukon. S. America: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru. Africa: Ghana,Tanzania. Antarctica: Antarctic Peninsula, Ellsworth Mtns, South Pole. Asia: Tibet, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan Provinces, Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang Auton. Region); Hong Kong and Macau, n. India (Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Indonesia (Java, Lombok, Irian Jaya), Nepal, Japan, n. Pakistan (Hunza and Baltistan). Middle East: Jordan. Europe: Georgia, Latvia, Switzerland. Russia: Kamchatka Peninsula. U.S.A.: Alaska, Arizona, Utah.
 

              

NORTH AMERICA

CANADA

Climbing -- rock, snow, ice (frozen waterfalls), alpine -- in Alberta, B.C., NWT and Yukon; Ascents of Mt. Logan and Mt. Steele in St. Elias Mtns, Yukon

Cycling -- 450 mile, l0-day wilderness trip down Yukon's Dempster Highway, through the Ogilvie and Richardson Mountains, across the Arctic Circle.

Hiking/Camping -- Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon,
--Rocky Mountains and Banff National Park/Alberta; Pacific Rim National Park (52 miles of rugged beach walking on Vancouver Island)/ B.C.; St. Elias Mtns. in Kluane National Park and Tombstone Mtns/Yukon
-- heli-hiking with Canadian Mountain Holidays in Purcell Mtns/B.C.

Sea kayaking in British Columbia
-- the Queen Charlotte Islands (Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve) ;
-- across Atlin Lake on the edge of the St. Elias Mtns.

     Canadian Geographic, Sept/Oct 1992                                Explore Magazine Sept 1999

Skiing

-- heliskiing in B.C.: Cariboo, Purcell, Selkirk and Monashee ranges -- hut-to-hut tours and backcountry lodges in B.C.-- Ptarmigan Tours; Mistaya Lodge; Purcell Lodge; Wells Gray Chalets; Golden Alpine Holidays; Valhalla Mountain Touring. -- ski resorts: B.C. & Alberta  -- Lake Louise, Fernie Snow Valley -- wilderness skiing: Alberta Rockies, B.C. and Yukon --- 14-day traverse of Homathko Icefield (story package): Coast Mountain Range of B.C., including telemark descents of various peaks; camp scenes; glacier mountain scenics of B.C.'s second highest peak, Mt. Waddington. -- ski traverse of historic Chilkoot Pass, Yukon to Alaska -- circumski of Yukon's Mt. Logan, St. Elias Mtns: l40-mile, l2-day ski in St. Elias Icefields, the largest ice cap outside polar regions -- circumski of Yukon's Tombstone Range...70 miles in subarctic conditions, around jagged granite spires -- Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canadian Arctic and geographic North Pole. Flight to the north pole in twin otters with celebrities Sir Edmund Hillary and astronaut Neil Armstrong, followed by a ski ascent of a peak at Tanquary Fjord in -50 C temperatures.

Outside , Nov 1998

Canoeing and Rafting Yukon's Rivers

-- Tatshenshini River 12-day raft trip through spectacular St. Elias Mtns, from B.C. into Alaska near Glacier Bay. Hiking, campfire scenes, with shimmering Mt. Fairweather (B.C.'s highest peak) in background at dusk.
-- Alsek River 12-day raft trip to Glacier Bay; hike up on Goatherd Mtn along the way, with view of icebergs on Lowell Lake
-- Peel River 350-mile canoe trip in Yukon and NWT
-- Firth River, Ivvavik National Park (story package): l0-day raft trip through the migration of the Porcupine Caribou herd in the British Mtns; all the way to Hershel Island Territorial Park on the Beaufort Sea
-- Snake River (story package): 11-day canoe trip through the MacKenzie Mtns, on the border with NWT; beautiful campsites and hiking every day
 

--Yukon Territory -- scenics plus lifestyle stories: gold rush-- past and present; homesteading; sea kayaking on Atlin Lake; First Nations' salmon fishing camp; historic Dawson City and Diamond Tooth Gertie's; Fort Selkirk on the Yukon River; St. Elias Mountains; aerials; Kluane National Park; Dempster highway; bicycling the Dempster; Richardson and Ogilvie mountains; Alaska Highway; Porcupine Caribou herd migration on Porcupine River and
Firth River, Ivvavik National Park.
-- Mt. Logan (story package): two ascents of Canada's highest mountain, via King Trench Route. One was a scientific expedition to remeasure height of the mountain with Global Positioning System instruments.
--Mt Steele (story package): 1995 commemorative climb of the peak named after Sam Steele, the Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman who brought law to Klondike Gold Rush in '98.
 

UNITED STATES

--Arizona and Utah, Canyoneering (story package)-- exploring the sublime desert landscape through convoluted sandstone slots, including Grand Canyon, Grand Gulch, Escalante, Kanab, Monument Valley; Anasazi ruins.

--Alaska: Denali National Park, ascent of Mt. McKinley/Denali

AFRICA

TANZANIA -- Kilimanjaro National Park climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro (story package); Big game in Tanzanian parks: Tarangire, Ngorongoro, and Lk. Manyara. Masai and Chagga people in Moshi and Arusha.

GHANA -- game and wildlife management story: Mole National Park, and Boabeng-Fiemma monkey sanctuary.
-- Cities: Accra, Kumasi, Tamale

ANTARCTICA

Mt. Vinson, Ellsworth Mountains (story package): climbing/skiing Antarctica's highest summit, just 600 miles from south pole
South Pole--U.S. Scott Amundsen Base
Antarctic Peninsula:
--wildlife: penguins, seals, sea lions
--Argentine base of Esperanza with families, children, equipment, penguins, seals, climbing/skiing, spectacular glaciers and mountains
--Adelaide Island, British Rothera base, airplanes and skidoos, scenics
--Alexander Island: First tourist group to visit here, and a 7-day storm
--King George Island--various bases, Chilean, Russian, Chinese.

ASIA AND THE HIMALAYAS
 

PAKISTAN

HUNZA: spectacular mountain biking down the Karakorum Highway (from Kashgar through the Chinese Pamir Mountains) across 16,000-foot Khunjerab Pass into Hunza. Trekking among the giants of the Karakorum mountains.

BALTISTAN: K2, Broad Peak, Concordia Glacier; Trek from Hushe past Mt. Masherbrum to Gondogoro. Towns of Karimabad, Gilgit, Skardu.

INDIA

HIMACHAL PRADESH -- Spiti and Kinnaur, recently opened regions southeast of Ladakh. Buddhist monasteries of Spiti; colourful mix of Hindu and Buddhist people in Kinnaur, including the annual "Festival of Flowers" -- Dharamsala, home of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Trekking north across the high peaks of the Dhauladhar Range
--Manali and Shimla, mountain towns/hill stations

KASHMIR -- houseboats on Dal Lake in Srinigar

LADAKH (story package) Buddhist culture, monasteries and villages along the Indus Valley; Hemis Festival; Lamayuru Monastery; trekking with horses in Zanskar and the Rupshu area

SIKKIM - trek from Lachen to Nepal Gap (beneath Kangchenjunga); attempt to climb the lovely Mt Siniolchu; trek to Dzongri on south side of Kangchenjunga in the Kangchenjunga National Park; Kagyat cham (masked) dances at Rumtek Monastery; capital of Gangtok.

UTTAR PRADESH -- trekking in the Garwhal area near Josimath; Hindu pilgrim destinations of Rishikesh and Badrinath.

WEST BENGAL -- the hill resort of Darjeeling
 

TIBET

-- Mount Everest, original Mallory/Irvine route on North Col; 1991 Canadian "Climb For Hope." Approach from Nepal into Tibet via Friendship Highway; expedition life, scenics, Tibetan yak herders, etc. Rongbuk Monastery.
--Lhasa, the Holy City (story package): monasteries and pilgrims; street life; the changing face of the city; pilgrims during Sagadawa Festival (celebrating the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha); prayer wheels
--Tsurphu Monastery, seat of the Karmapa; pictures of the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorje, during 3-day festival in 1997 with unveiling a new thangka and cham dances
--Hiking in Tsangpo River Gorge (Brahmaputra R), Mt Namche Barwa.
-- Circumambulation of Mt. Bonri (holy Bon mtn), in Kongpo
-- by truck and mountain bike across the Tibetan Plateau and the Chang Tang, into the Kunlun Mountains
-- circumambulation of Mt. Kailas (story package): Asia's holiest mountain for both Buddhists and Hindus
 

CHINA

Yunnan Province: cities of Kunming and Dali

Sichuan Province: Chengdu, Muli: sacred Buddhist peaks, Tibetan monastery, pilgrims;
Wolong Panda Preserve: A week spent with a Canadian biologist researching pandas in the wild for World Wildlife Fund.

Hubei and Hunan Provinces:
--Yangtze River, Three Gorges Dam (story package): 5-day cruise trip from Wushan to Chongqing, past site of Three Gorges Dam at Sandouping; hiking in and exploring the inner gorges, visiting villages that will be drowned by the dam. This story won a silver award for photojournalism in the Canadian National Magazine Awards.

HONG KONG

--city scenes
--1993 International Dragon Boat Races
 

EUROPE

Skiing -- telemarking in the Alps at resorts in Austria, Switzerland, and Italy and the Telemark District of southern Norway.

Georgia
--Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus Mountains (story package):
--climb of the mtn; hike into Svanetia near the border of Turkey and Iran. Stone defense towers; villagers and alpine flowers
-- Tbilisi, capital city
-- culinary practices of Georgians (story package):inside family kitchens between the Black and Caspian Seas

Russia
--Moscow: downtown, Red Square, Sport Hotel '83
--Khabarovsk, Russia's Far East
--Kamchatka Peninsula (story package): climbing active volcanoes, trekking through nature preserves; sea voyage along coast. Eruption of 5000m Mt Klyuchevskaya in '93
-- Petropavlovsk

INDONESIA IRIAN JAYA -- (story package) -- Stone Age Dani tribe of the central highlands, Baliem Valley; wedding ceremonies and pig feasts that happen only every 5 years; hiking from Wamena between villages and through forests -- Carstensz Pyramid: climb of the highest peak in Australasia

JAPAN

-- Traverse of the Japan Alps (story package):
--from the Japan Sea to the Pacific Ocean; climbing Japan's highest 21 peaks over 3000 meters; mountain culture and religion; Mt. Fuji
-- Hokkaido (story package): powder skiing; ski ascent of Hokkaido's highest peak, Mt Asahi Dake; winter scenics.
 

MIDDLE EAST

JORDAN

-- ancient Roman city of Jerash; capital city Amman; canyon ruins of Petra; T.E. Lawrence's Wadi Rum desert; having coffee in the tents of bedouins; camels; swimmers floating in the Dead Sea, and the Red Sea.
 

SOUTH AMERICA
 

ARGENTINA
-- Rio Negro Prov:Bariloche environs
-- Santa Cruz Prov: Fitz Roy and Cerre Torre in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares

BRAZIL
-- Rio de Janeiro: Carnaval, beaches, street scenes, hang gliding Gavea Rock, rock climbing in bathing suits

BOLIVIA
--La Paz and Mt. Illimani, Mt. Huayna Potosi
--Ulla Ulla National Park: alpacas and vicunas; Apolabamba Range
--Lake Titicaca and Isla del Sol

CHILE
-- Santiago museums, Christmas, street scenes
-- Vina del Mar: popular beach resort
-- La Serena, Esqui Valley
-- Patagonia: Punta Arenas, pampas, aerials southern Andes, Puerto Natales
-- Carreterra Austral (Austral highway) in the X Region de Los Lagos and the XI Region de Aisen
-- Torres del Paine National Park: wildlife (guanacos), scenics of the spectacular spires, hiking,
-- island of Chiloe: mountain biking; fishing and farming villages
-- Northern Chile: Atacama Desert, Arica (northernmost city in Chile), San Pedro de Atacama

PERU
--Machu Picchu: Hiking the Inca Trail
--Cusco

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