Announcing New Mongolia Workshop

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Join me and Karai Expeditions in Western Mongolia this March for fourteen days of photography, including part of a nomadic winter migration. Eight photographers, access built on years of local friendships, and a chance to photograph alongside me. There are only 8 spots available. Get more details here.

Surfing the Sierras

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Our mission was to paraglide the full length of the California Sierra Mountains in a series of connected flights, navigating hostile terrain to link onto the Warner Range and cross the border into Oregon – a distance of 800km. If successful, the route would break the North American record for cross-country distance- own vol biv-style.

The Nature of Hope Print Sale

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The Nature of Hope is a global print collection created by the Jane Goodall Institute and Vital Impacts. This collection is a love letter from photographers inspired by her life and I’m honored to be a part of it. Check out all the amazing prints that are available. All proceeds go to the Jane Goodall Institute.

Ebb & Flow

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Quenching an insatiable need for adventure and exploration with Liz Clark.

Cloud Hoppers

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Thanks in part to advances in wing technology, a few pioneering paragliders are smashing the limits by completing long-distance flights that were once thought impossible. Last spring, high-fliers Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg pulled off one of the most ambitious trips ever attempted: 385 miles down the jagged, frozen, potentially deadly spine of the Canadian Rockies.

North of Known

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A 37 day full traverse of the Alaska range by foot and paraglider by athletes Gavin McClurg and Dave Turner. They had been pinned down here for 8 days in snowstorms, right on the western edge of Denali National park waiting for a flyable window to attempt the crux of the expedition- flying across Denali National Park. After 37 days of treacherous river crossings, endless bush wacking, bears and starvation they finally made their goal.

Marooned in Mozambique

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The sun has set, we have been flying most of a day that none of us wants to end. I haven’t even thought about landing, I want to fly until I cannot see. We are still a long way from where the dinghy should be and I’m hoping it is just the light that robs us of the view. But in my gut I know we are screwed. Marooned.

Journey Through the Sahara

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The goal was always to go deep into the unknown in search of surf. Our rail journey began from an iron mining center in the Sahara, snaking through the desert toward a port town on the west coast of Africa. My aim was to try and to capture the spirit of adventure and exploration through this incredible landscape. To me this trip was about falling in love with the hardship and inevitable beauty in the process of getting there.

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