Adventure Diaries
Follow trials and adventures from around the world with these extraordinary journals kept by our Shipton/Tilman Grant recipients - small expedition teams with daring and imaginative goals achieved in the style of classic explorers.
- Glacier to Gobi Expedition
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Top American paddlers Middy Tilghman, Andrew McEwan, and Simon Beardmore attempt a whitewater kayak expedition on the Inylchek and Sarydzhaz Rivers in Central Asia's isolated Kyrgyzstan republic. Traveling from glacial conditions to the unforgiving Gobi Desert, the team will take the concept of self-contained whitewater exploration of remote areas to a new extreme.
- Year of the Cock Expedition - Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
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Renowned climber Mike Libecki travels solo to Queen Maud Land, Antarctica to attempt first ascents of its forbidding granite walls, towers, and spires.
- Exploring the Xiashe Massif, Sichuan Province, China
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Patricia Deavoll of New Zealand and Karen McNeill of Canada attempt the unclimbed Xiashe Massif mountain in the isolated Sichuan Province of China.
- The Unclimbed China Expedition
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New Zealand climbers Jo Kippax and Sean Waters travel to the remote regions of western Sichuan to attempt two unclimbed peaks in the seldom-visited Daxue Shan Range.
- The Wakhan Corridor Journey - Afghanistan to Pakistan
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Explorers John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil travel the length of Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor to the source of the Oxus River and cross the forbidden Dilisang Pass to Pakistan’s Northern Areas.