Sending out appreciation for late great Lakpa Tenji Sherpa who passed away recently in the high himalaya. Lakpa literally held my hand to the summit on our @natgeo Everest expedition and was featured in @m_synnott’s The Third Pole book, the @disneyplus doc Lost on Everest and our Ghosts Above film. His combo of strength, kindness and mountain knowledge was second to none! We will always climb with his spirit with us in these high places 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sending out appreciation for late great Lakpa Tenji Sherpa who passed away recently in the high himalaya. Lakpa literally held my hand to the summit on our @natgeo Everest expedition and was featured in @m_synnott’s The Third Pole book, the @disneyplus doc Lost on Everest and our Ghosts Above film. His combo of strength, kindness and mountain knowledge was second to none! We will always climb with his spirit with us in these high places 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sending out appreciation for late great Lakpa Tenji Sherpa who passed away recently in the high himalaya. Lakpa literally held my hand to the summit on our @natgeo Everest expedition and was featured in @m_synnott’s The Third Pole book, the @disneyplus doc Lost on Everest and our Ghosts Above film. His combo of strength, kindness and mountain knowledge was second to none! We will always climb with his spirit with us in these high places 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sending out appreciation for late great Lakpa Tenji Sherpa who passed away recently in the high himalaya. Lakpa literally held my hand to the summit on our @natgeo Everest expedition and was featured in @m_synnott’s The Third Pole book, the @disneyplus doc Lost on Everest and our Ghosts Above film. His combo of strength, kindness and mountain knowledge was second to none! We will always climb with his spirit with us in these high places 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sending out appreciation for late great Lakpa Tenji Sherpa who passed away recently in the high himalaya. Lakpa literally held my hand to the summit on our @natgeo Everest expedition and was featured in @m_synnott’s The Third Pole book, the @disneyplus doc Lost on Everest and our Ghosts Above film. His combo of strength, kindness and mountain knowledge was second to none! We will always climb with his spirit with us in these high places 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Sending out appreciation for late great Lakpa Tenji Sherpa who passed away recently in the high himalaya. Lakpa literally held my hand to the summit on our @natgeo Everest expedition and was featured in @m_synnott’s The Third Pole book, the @disneyplus doc Lost on Everest and our Ghosts Above film. His combo of strength, kindness and mountain knowledge was second to none! We will always climb with his spirit with us in these high places 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
24hrs of art, 2hrs of sleep in the Himalaya. Finished this one with a sherpa school kid free for all in Khumjung! @expedition.studios @jetbutterflies @climber.abiral #sonyalpha @thenorthface Photo #3 by @climber.abiral and last one by @jetbutterflies
24hrs of art, 2hrs of sleep in the Himalaya. Finished this one with a sherpa school kid free for all in Khumjung! @expedition.studios @jetbutterflies @climber.abiral #sonyalpha @thenorthface Photo #3 by @climber.abiral and last one by @jetbutterflies
24hrs of art, 2hrs of sleep in the Himalaya. Finished this one with a sherpa school kid free for all in Khumjung! @expedition.studios @jetbutterflies @climber.abiral #sonyalpha @thenorthface Photo #3 by @climber.abiral and last one by @jetbutterflies
24hrs of art, 2hrs of sleep in the Himalaya. Finished this one with a sherpa school kid free for all in Khumjung! @expedition.studios @jetbutterflies @climber.abiral #sonyalpha @thenorthface Photo #3 by @climber.abiral and last one by @jetbutterflies
24hrs of art, 2hrs of sleep in the Himalaya. Finished this one with a sherpa school kid free for all in Khumjung! @expedition.studios @jetbutterflies @climber.abiral #sonyalpha @thenorthface Photo #3 by @climber.abiral and last one by @jetbutterflies
24hrs of art, 2hrs of sleep in the Himalaya. Finished this one with a sherpa school kid free for all in Khumjung! @expedition.studios @jetbutterflies @climber.abiral #sonyalpha @thenorthface Photo #3 by @climber.abiral and last one by @jetbutterflies
One of the best parts of this trip to Chilean Patagonia was meeting passionate local kayakers @nicomdelarosa and @jlancasterkayaker and witnessing them interact with the Baker River and its tributaries. ~ Rio Baker remains one of the undammed and free flowing rivers in the world do to the hard work of kids like these! ~ Follow them as they continue to advocate for this river with @westonboyles and the @riostorivers project. With @jamesqmartin @chrisburkard @standtallest and crew
One of the best parts of this trip to Chilean Patagonia was meeting passionate local kayakers @nicomdelarosa and @jlancasterkayaker and witnessing them interact with the Baker River and its tributaries. ~ Rio Baker remains one of the undammed and free flowing rivers in the world do to the hard work of kids like these! ~ Follow them as they continue to advocate for this river with @westonboyles and the @riostorivers project. With @jamesqmartin @chrisburkard @standtallest and crew
One of the best parts of this trip to Chilean Patagonia was meeting passionate local kayakers @nicomdelarosa and @jlancasterkayaker and witnessing them interact with the Baker River and its tributaries. ~ Rio Baker remains one of the undammed and free flowing rivers in the world do to the hard work of kids like these! ~ Follow them as they continue to advocate for this river with @westonboyles and the @riostorivers project. With @jamesqmartin @chrisburkard @standtallest and crew
One of the best parts of this trip to Chilean Patagonia was meeting passionate local kayakers @nicomdelarosa and @jlancasterkayaker and witnessing them interact with the Baker River and its tributaries. ~ Rio Baker remains one of the undammed and free flowing rivers in the world do to the hard work of kids like these! ~ Follow them as they continue to advocate for this river with @westonboyles and the @riostorivers project. With @jamesqmartin @chrisburkard @standtallest and crew
A bit of science from our @natgeo @expedition.studios #TheLostWorldExpedition Words by @m_synnott Look hard enough and you can find frogs from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert—and practically everywhere in between. But nowhere are they more plentiful than in the rainforests that girdle South America’s equatorial region. At last count, scientists like @dr_bruce_means had cataloged about 1000 different species that live in the Amazon Basin. Of course, these are only the ones we know about, and if Dr. Bruce Means is right, there are likely ten times that number that have yet to be discovered. Sadly, we will never know how many have already been lost to extinction. According to Bruce, the reason there is so much frog biodiversity in the Amazon is that speciation takes place over evolutionary time, and there is nowhere on earth where frogs have lived for longer. DNA analysis of tree frogs collected on past expeditions in the Paikwa River Basin suggests that many of them took up residence in the region between 70 and 80 million years ago, which is twice as long as they have been living in North America. “About the most profound statement I can make,” says Bruce, “is that the longer life is allowed to proliferate in a rich, untrammeled environment like the Paikwa River Basin, the more that species will differentiate and diversify.” Over the years, Bruce’s quest to document this biodiversity has become more urgent as he has witnessed firsthand how the “pork-knockers”—freelance Guyanese mining prospectors—have been transforming once pristine rainforests and rivers into poisoned scars in the earth. “When I saw what was happening, and I realized how many species were going extinct every day,” says Bruce, “I knew that there was no more important contribution I could make to the world than to document as much of this biodiversity as I could before it was lost forever. Like the world within the speck of dust in the Dr. Seuss book ‘Horton Hears a Who!’, Bruce says that there are tiny universes of life all around us that we don’t even know exist. And when they disappear, they become missing strands in the ecological web that connects all living things.
A bit of science from our @natgeo @expedition.studios #TheLostWorldExpedition Words by @m_synnott Look hard enough and you can find frogs from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert—and practically everywhere in between. But nowhere are they more plentiful than in the rainforests that girdle South America’s equatorial region. At last count, scientists like @dr_bruce_means had cataloged about 1000 different species that live in the Amazon Basin. Of course, these are only the ones we know about, and if Dr. Bruce Means is right, there are likely ten times that number that have yet to be discovered. Sadly, we will never know how many have already been lost to extinction. According to Bruce, the reason there is so much frog biodiversity in the Amazon is that speciation takes place over evolutionary time, and there is nowhere on earth where frogs have lived for longer. DNA analysis of tree frogs collected on past expeditions in the Paikwa River Basin suggests that many of them took up residence in the region between 70 and 80 million years ago, which is twice as long as they have been living in North America. “About the most profound statement I can make,” says Bruce, “is that the longer life is allowed to proliferate in a rich, untrammeled environment like the Paikwa River Basin, the more that species will differentiate and diversify.” Over the years, Bruce’s quest to document this biodiversity has become more urgent as he has witnessed firsthand how the “pork-knockers”—freelance Guyanese mining prospectors—have been transforming once pristine rainforests and rivers into poisoned scars in the earth. “When I saw what was happening, and I realized how many species were going extinct every day,” says Bruce, “I knew that there was no more important contribution I could make to the world than to document as much of this biodiversity as I could before it was lost forever. Like the world within the speck of dust in the Dr. Seuss book ‘Horton Hears a Who!’, Bruce says that there are tiny universes of life all around us that we don’t even know exist. And when they disappear, they become missing strands in the ecological web that connects all living things.
A bit of science from our @natgeo @expedition.studios #TheLostWorldExpedition Words by @m_synnott Look hard enough and you can find frogs from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert—and practically everywhere in between. But nowhere are they more plentiful than in the rainforests that girdle South America’s equatorial region. At last count, scientists like @dr_bruce_means had cataloged about 1000 different species that live in the Amazon Basin. Of course, these are only the ones we know about, and if Dr. Bruce Means is right, there are likely ten times that number that have yet to be discovered. Sadly, we will never know how many have already been lost to extinction. According to Bruce, the reason there is so much frog biodiversity in the Amazon is that speciation takes place over evolutionary time, and there is nowhere on earth where frogs have lived for longer. DNA analysis of tree frogs collected on past expeditions in the Paikwa River Basin suggests that many of them took up residence in the region between 70 and 80 million years ago, which is twice as long as they have been living in North America. “About the most profound statement I can make,” says Bruce, “is that the longer life is allowed to proliferate in a rich, untrammeled environment like the Paikwa River Basin, the more that species will differentiate and diversify.” Over the years, Bruce’s quest to document this biodiversity has become more urgent as he has witnessed firsthand how the “pork-knockers”—freelance Guyanese mining prospectors—have been transforming once pristine rainforests and rivers into poisoned scars in the earth. “When I saw what was happening, and I realized how many species were going extinct every day,” says Bruce, “I knew that there was no more important contribution I could make to the world than to document as much of this biodiversity as I could before it was lost forever. Like the world within the speck of dust in the Dr. Seuss book ‘Horton Hears a Who!’, Bruce says that there are tiny universes of life all around us that we don’t even know exist. And when they disappear, they become missing strands in the ecological web that connects all living things.
A bit of science from our @natgeo @expedition.studios #TheLostWorldExpedition Words by @m_synnott Look hard enough and you can find frogs from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert—and practically everywhere in between. But nowhere are they more plentiful than in the rainforests that girdle South America’s equatorial region. At last count, scientists like @dr_bruce_means had cataloged about 1000 different species that live in the Amazon Basin. Of course, these are only the ones we know about, and if Dr. Bruce Means is right, there are likely ten times that number that have yet to be discovered. Sadly, we will never know how many have already been lost to extinction. According to Bruce, the reason there is so much frog biodiversity in the Amazon is that speciation takes place over evolutionary time, and there is nowhere on earth where frogs have lived for longer. DNA analysis of tree frogs collected on past expeditions in the Paikwa River Basin suggests that many of them took up residence in the region between 70 and 80 million years ago, which is twice as long as they have been living in North America. “About the most profound statement I can make,” says Bruce, “is that the longer life is allowed to proliferate in a rich, untrammeled environment like the Paikwa River Basin, the more that species will differentiate and diversify.” Over the years, Bruce’s quest to document this biodiversity has become more urgent as he has witnessed firsthand how the “pork-knockers”—freelance Guyanese mining prospectors—have been transforming once pristine rainforests and rivers into poisoned scars in the earth. “When I saw what was happening, and I realized how many species were going extinct every day,” says Bruce, “I knew that there was no more important contribution I could make to the world than to document as much of this biodiversity as I could before it was lost forever. Like the world within the speck of dust in the Dr. Seuss book ‘Horton Hears a Who!’, Bruce says that there are tiny universes of life all around us that we don’t even know exist. And when they disappear, they become missing strands in the ecological web that connects all living things.
A bit of science from our @natgeo @expedition.studios #TheLostWorldExpedition Words by @m_synnott Look hard enough and you can find frogs from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert—and practically everywhere in between. But nowhere are they more plentiful than in the rainforests that girdle South America’s equatorial region. At last count, scientists like @dr_bruce_means had cataloged about 1000 different species that live in the Amazon Basin. Of course, these are only the ones we know about, and if Dr. Bruce Means is right, there are likely ten times that number that have yet to be discovered. Sadly, we will never know how many have already been lost to extinction. According to Bruce, the reason there is so much frog biodiversity in the Amazon is that speciation takes place over evolutionary time, and there is nowhere on earth where frogs have lived for longer. DNA analysis of tree frogs collected on past expeditions in the Paikwa River Basin suggests that many of them took up residence in the region between 70 and 80 million years ago, which is twice as long as they have been living in North America. “About the most profound statement I can make,” says Bruce, “is that the longer life is allowed to proliferate in a rich, untrammeled environment like the Paikwa River Basin, the more that species will differentiate and diversify.” Over the years, Bruce’s quest to document this biodiversity has become more urgent as he has witnessed firsthand how the “pork-knockers”—freelance Guyanese mining prospectors—have been transforming once pristine rainforests and rivers into poisoned scars in the earth. “When I saw what was happening, and I realized how many species were going extinct every day,” says Bruce, “I knew that there was no more important contribution I could make to the world than to document as much of this biodiversity as I could before it was lost forever. Like the world within the speck of dust in the Dr. Seuss book ‘Horton Hears a Who!’, Bruce says that there are tiny universes of life all around us that we don’t even know exist. And when they disappear, they become missing strands in the ecological web that connects all living things.
A bit of science from our @natgeo @expedition.studios #TheLostWorldExpedition Words by @m_synnott Look hard enough and you can find frogs from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert—and practically everywhere in between. But nowhere are they more plentiful than in the rainforests that girdle South America’s equatorial region. At last count, scientists like @dr_bruce_means had cataloged about 1000 different species that live in the Amazon Basin. Of course, these are only the ones we know about, and if Dr. Bruce Means is right, there are likely ten times that number that have yet to be discovered. Sadly, we will never know how many have already been lost to extinction. According to Bruce, the reason there is so much frog biodiversity in the Amazon is that speciation takes place over evolutionary time, and there is nowhere on earth where frogs have lived for longer. DNA analysis of tree frogs collected on past expeditions in the Paikwa River Basin suggests that many of them took up residence in the region between 70 and 80 million years ago, which is twice as long as they have been living in North America. “About the most profound statement I can make,” says Bruce, “is that the longer life is allowed to proliferate in a rich, untrammeled environment like the Paikwa River Basin, the more that species will differentiate and diversify.” Over the years, Bruce’s quest to document this biodiversity has become more urgent as he has witnessed firsthand how the “pork-knockers”—freelance Guyanese mining prospectors—have been transforming once pristine rainforests and rivers into poisoned scars in the earth. “When I saw what was happening, and I realized how many species were going extinct every day,” says Bruce, “I knew that there was no more important contribution I could make to the world than to document as much of this biodiversity as I could before it was lost forever. Like the world within the speck of dust in the Dr. Seuss book ‘Horton Hears a Who!’, Bruce says that there are tiny universes of life all around us that we don’t even know exist. And when they disappear, they become missing strands in the ecological web that connects all living things.
A bit of science from our @natgeo @expedition.studios #TheLostWorldExpedition Words by @m_synnott Look hard enough and you can find frogs from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert—and practically everywhere in between. But nowhere are they more plentiful than in the rainforests that girdle South America’s equatorial region. At last count, scientists like @dr_bruce_means had cataloged about 1000 different species that live in the Amazon Basin. Of course, these are only the ones we know about, and if Dr. Bruce Means is right, there are likely ten times that number that have yet to be discovered. Sadly, we will never know how many have already been lost to extinction. According to Bruce, the reason there is so much frog biodiversity in the Amazon is that speciation takes place over evolutionary time, and there is nowhere on earth where frogs have lived for longer. DNA analysis of tree frogs collected on past expeditions in the Paikwa River Basin suggests that many of them took up residence in the region between 70 and 80 million years ago, which is twice as long as they have been living in North America. “About the most profound statement I can make,” says Bruce, “is that the longer life is allowed to proliferate in a rich, untrammeled environment like the Paikwa River Basin, the more that species will differentiate and diversify.” Over the years, Bruce’s quest to document this biodiversity has become more urgent as he has witnessed firsthand how the “pork-knockers”—freelance Guyanese mining prospectors—have been transforming once pristine rainforests and rivers into poisoned scars in the earth. “When I saw what was happening, and I realized how many species were going extinct every day,” says Bruce, “I knew that there was no more important contribution I could make to the world than to document as much of this biodiversity as I could before it was lost forever. Like the world within the speck of dust in the Dr. Seuss book ‘Horton Hears a Who!’, Bruce says that there are tiny universes of life all around us that we don’t even know exist. And when they disappear, they become missing strands in the ecological web that connects all living things.
