Latest NEWS  Tuesday, January 17, 2012An Odd Couple Travels 1,500 Arctic Miles
By TIM MUTRIE
Erik Boomer and Jon Turk hardly knew each other before they set out in kayaks and circumnavigated Canada’s Ellesmere Island in 104 days, becoming the first to do so. Read full article:
National Geographic has nominated Erik Boomer and me as one of ten “Adventurers of the Year 2012” for our Ellesmere circumnavigation. The final Grand Slam winner will be voted in as a “People’s Choice” award. So, please vote for us by going to this National Geographic link.
Moolynaut passed away in early Dec, 2011. For those of you who read, The Raven's Gift, she was the Koryak healer who helped me mend my pelvis. She was born during the reign of Czar Nicholas II, in a near Stone Age existence, and is probably one of the last of the aboriginal Siberian shamans. We all morn her passing, but it was inevitable, just as the sun rises and the seasons change. Along with our sadness it is important to keep the ancient wisdoms alive in this internet crazed, oil soaked world.
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 In Siberia, the harshest of lands, I met Moolynaut, a shaman of the Koryak people. Through her teachings, my own adventures, and the patient conversations of many men and women from the South Pacific to the Arctic, I have begun to see the world as our ancestors saw it, sustainable and full of wonder. Slowly, I am realizing that the lessons, experiences, and images we take from the wilderness can guide us through our passages in this oil soaked, internet crazed, madcap world. |
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