Trekking through the Himalaya (with a short stop at Mt. Everest’s base camp), sailing the Ganges River, crossing the North Pacific Ocean on a container ship, meditating with monks in a Tibetan monastery – these are not the typical activities you might expect during a family vacation with two young children. But the Kirkby family […]
Last summer I paddled a standup paddleboard (SUP) from Vancouver to Victoria — a journey of 150 kilometres and 5 days — and convinced young filmaker Kalum Ko to take a week off highschool and tag along. The resulting film, which blends my spoken-word narration with KK’s gorgeous visual, evolved from my belief that it wasn’t the […]
In early December, just before our ski hill opened for the season, the small town of Kimberley BC awoke to its biggest single-day snow accumulation in over two decades. There was only one thing to do: cancel all plans for the week, slap skins on the skis, and start climbing – and skiing. What […]
On Sunday, The New York Times ran my story of the Legacy Pole raising in Gwaii Haanas National Park. The story of Gwaii Haanas is the story of the circle of life, told over and over; the beginning becomes the end, which becomes the beginning again. Out here, on the edge of the continent, boundaries […]