In assembling role models for the readers of MyAdventures.com we couldn’t do any better for our first list than present the
following people taken from last years blogsite. The page includes a generous list from Outside Magazine’s Literary All-Stars
used with their permission.
Suzanne Nance
Suzanne Nance is the only American female to have climbed the highest mountain on each of the 7 continents and skied the Last Degree of both the North and the South Pole, thus circumventing the Globe; the Adventure Grand Slam. Nance is a both a personal trainer and Life Coach. She first started her training business for friends who asked for help in reaching and attaining their athletic goals, primarily, marathons and triathlons. She expanded her scope by including her training of first time marathoners and newcomers to fitness. Through fitness, diet, mental and spiritual exercises, she has helped people gain a better sense of self, reach specific goals, and live a healthier life style.
For more information contact
suz0225@earthlink.net
Natasha Illum Berg
What makes Natasha stand out from the crowd is her vocation. Raised in Sweden she has been a fully licensed professional hunter in Tanzania since 1999. In between safaris she has written several popular books most of which have been published in many languages. Born to Danish mother Marianne Illum Berg and Danish / Swedish father Iens Illum Berg. One sister, Karina (now married) Stiernblad (1965) Brought up on family hunting estate / wildlife reserve “Eriksberg” in Blekinge, Sweden.
For more information visit
www.natashaillumberg.com
Helen Thayer
Helen Thayer has skied to the magnetic North Pole, lived among wolves in Alaska, kayaked in the Amazon, walked across the Sahara, and represented three countries in track and field. She is the author of Polar Dream and Three Among the Wolves and the recipient of countless awards, including the esteemed Vancouver Award from the Explorers Club. Thayer was names “One of the Great Explorers of the 20th Century” by National Geographic and is the president of Adventure Classroom, an international educational project.
For more information visit
www.helenthayer.com
Fiona Claire Capstick
Fiona was born in South Africa, where she became an officer in the armed forces, seconded to the military intelligence division as a multilingual translator and interpreter. She is currently serving as a sworn translator to the High Court of South Africa. Her late husband, Peter Hathaway Capstick, was the author of highly acclaimed safari accounts such as Death in the Long Grass and Safari: The Last Adventure. Her husband Peter, was a good friend of Keith Bates, founder of MyAdventures.com.
For more information visit
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=8922433549
Bruce Barcott
Seattle-based Contributing Editor Bruce Barcott isn't afraid to get dirty in order to find a good story. In his October 2004 piece for Outside about amateur archeologist, Jack Harelson, entitled "The Killing Bones," he was forced to explore a cave and found himself elbows deep in bat guano.
For more information visit
Outside Online
Tim Cahill
Editor at Large Tim Cahill is a founding editor of Outside and for years wrote the "Out There" column. The travel adventure writer knows no limits when it comes to picking his assignments: he's gotten up-close with great white sharks, sailed in 30- below-zero Antarctic weather, and trekked through Death Valley on a grueling summer day.
For more information visit
Outside Online
Daniel Coyle
Coyle has been honored twice with National Magazine Award Nominations for his work in Outside. In 1998, he was nominated for a NMA for feature writing for his profile of Joseph Hazelwood and the Exxon Valdez disaster, entitled "The Captain Went Down with the Ship," and again in 2003 for his profile on snowboarder Roger Carver, called, "Boy Wonder."
For more information visit
Outside Online
Kevin Fedarko
Kevin Fedarko
Kevin Fedarko is a former Senior editor at Outside. Since turning exclusively to writing, he's learned a thing or two about reporting from high altitudes. In 2003, Outside sent Fedarko to report on the highest battleground on earth-the 21,000-foot peaks above the Siachen Glacier where the India/Pakistan feud is at its worst.
For more information visit
Outside Online
Mark Jenkins
Mark Jenkins
Outside Reconnaissance Agent Mark Jenkins is a critically acclaimed author, internationally recognized adventurer and columnist for Outside. For the past six years, Jenkins' column, "The Hard Way," has explored the meaning and joy of the physical outdoor life. From clandestine journeys across Tibet to mountaineering in Bolivia to sea kayaking around Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula to canyoneering in Australia, Jenkins covers the globe in search of adventure, history and human understanding.
For more information visit
Outside Online
Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger is fascinated with "extreme situations and people at the edges of things," and his expertise in covering dangerous work across the globe has garnered him the National Magazine Award for Reporting. The author of The Perfect Storm and Fire, Junger has traveled the world in his pursuit of covering life on the edge.
For more information visit
Outside Online
Jon Krakauer
In May 1996 Krakauer joined an expedition to summit Mt. Everest. A storm blanketed the peak after they successfully reached the summit. And on the descent, four of five of Krakauer's teammates died. An analysis of the calamity that he wrote for Outside received the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 1996
For more information visit
Outside Online
Peter Matthiesson
His efforts to publicize the plight of Africa's ecosystems led to his receipt of the African Wildlife Leadership Foundation Award in 1982. Matthiessen was twice nominated for the National Book Award before winning it in 1972 with The Snow Leopard, the story of his pursuit of an extremely rare Asian leopard in the remote Dolpa region of Nepal and Tibet.
For more information visit
Outside Online
Rob Story
Telluride-based Outside correspondent Rob Story is the author of Outside Adventure Travel: Mountain Biking. When he isn't looking for new singletrack or hitting the mountain-Story averages 50 days on the slopes per winter-he's writing for magazines. An editor-at-large at Bike, Story has also written for Powder and Skiing. He received the 2003-2004 Lowell Thomas Award for print journalism.
For more information visit
Outside Online
Patrick Symmes
Contributing Editor Patrick Symmes has reported in recent years from Afghanistan, Mongolia, Cuba, and many parts of South America. He has traveled amongst Maoist insurgents in Nepal, profiled gangs in Brazil specializes in profiles of guerrilla groups and criminal gangs. Symmes is the author of Chasing Che: A Motorcycle Journey Through the Guevara Legend, an account of a 12,000-mile ride across South America, retracing the journeys and guerrilla campaigns of Che Guevara.
For more information visit
Outside Online