Next
March, veteran polar adventurer David Reid will lead an outstanding team in
traveling 650 km overland from Naujaat (Repulse Bay) to Rae Strait, following
in the footsteps of John Rae, William Ouligbuck Jr., and Thomas Mistegan. When
personal considerations forced withdrawals, Reid rounded out his team with experienced,
highly skilled adventurers.
The party now includes:
n Canadian adventurer Frank Wolf,
named one of Canada’s top 100 explorers by Canadian Geographic Magazine in
2015. Wolf, the first to canoe across Canada in a single season, also cycled 2,000
km in winter on the Yukon River from Dawson to Nome. He has documented his
adventurers in articles and films and recently published his first book, Lines on a Map (Rocky Mountain Books).
n Scottish adventurer
Richard Smith, PhD, who studied as an astrophysicist, moved into Information
Technology, and served with the Royal Marine Commandos and the Special Boat
Service. Smith has climbed, trekked or kayaked in Alaska, Greenland, Nepal and
the French Alps, and explored the jungles of Belize and the deserts of Oman.
n Adventure
film-maker Garry Tutte, who created an educational web-series from
Mt. Everest, documented a 7000 km car rally from England to Gambia across the
Sahara Desert, and travelled from the remote islands of the Philippines to Hong
Kong to create an award-winning film. In 2017, Tutte led the media team aboard
the Canada C3 expedition as it circumnavigated the country’s 23,000 km
coastline from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage.
n Reid himself,
who lived on Baffin Island for 20 years and has led, organized
or participated in more than 300 Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, trips and
projects. In that time he has
traveled thousands of miles by dog sled, ski, snowmobile, boat, kayak,
ship, foot and most recently by bike, becoming the first person to cross Baffin
Island by fat-tire bike.
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