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Nepal Revisited

Apr 18, 2024

Forty years after my first visit in 1982, I returned to a very different Nepal, much changed from the one I'd experienced as a wide-eyed twenty-one year old on my first trip to southwest Asia: City districts renovated and unrecognizable after a devastating earthquake in 2015. Waves of tourists moving through once quiet streets, now packed with travel agencies offering all manner of services; outdoor stores carrying North Face and Patagonia knockoffs from ...

Greenland Sailing

Jul 27, 2022

Suspended twenty meters above the deck over the Donna Wood, the surrounding view is astounding, otherworldly. Icebergs as far as the eyes can see, immense glaciers winding their way downward before calving into the ocean, snow-capped mountains in all directions. The boat lists from side to side, the movement intensified by my elevated position, yet I'm able to time my shots accordingly with the swell and gusts of cold wind, photographing between rigging lines as the ship circles a ...

Mount Waddington Expedition

Mar 11, 2021

North of Vancouver, British Columbia lies a vast and rugged mountain wilderness, heavily fortified by primordial rain forest and deeply indented fjord-like inlets. Valley floors are covered with thick vegetation, while moist air from the Pacific Ocean often brings heavy precipitation in the form of rain or snow making backcountry approaches on foot difficult or impossible. The heavily glaciated Coast Range stretches northward into Southeastern Alaska and forms the ...