EXPEDITION STATUS

Julian Monroe Fisher (USA-Austria) -- Walk Across Africa Expedition
Address: Hirschbachgasse 62, A-3571 Thunau, Gars Am Kamp, Austria
Nationality: US citizen with Austrian residency
Phone: +43-720-720-308
Email: contact@julianmonroefisher.com and jomamas@hotmail.com
Education: Under graduate degree in Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy
Sex: Male
Age: 54
Photo: taken of The 2008 Mount Stanley Expedition team (Fisher is second from the left). The expedition was accredited by the Ugandan Wildlife Authority for establishing a new route down from the Ruwenzori Mountains that straddle the Uganda-DR Congo border to the Nile proving conclusively that the glaciers are a source of the river.
Reference contact: Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan, 610 N St., #4, Anchorage, AK 99501. 907-227-6311. www.normanvaughan.com
Your favorite proverb or quotation: "We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others." -Will Rogers
Tell us about your project: In the Summer of 2011, I will set out from the Indian Ocean coastal town of Nacala, Mozambique, and walk west until I reach the Atlantic Ocean coastal town of Lobito, Angola. The route I will take across the landscape comprises the territories of the African countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, DRC Congo and Angola. 'The 2011 Walk Across Africa Expedition solo walk is believed to be the first ever attempted unsupported expedition along this specific route.
The primary objective of 'The 2011 Walk Across Africa Expedition' will be to bring global awareness to the inherit rights of all humans regardless of where they live on the planet. Those inherent rights should include the right to: Fresh Food, Clean water, Clean air, Shelter, Education, Healthcare, Safety, Freedom of speech, religion, travel and assembly. The secondary objective of 'The 2011 Walk Across Africa Expedition' will be to bring global awareness to those countries that have agreed to 'The Ottawa Land Mine Treaty of 2009'. The Ottawa Treaty or the Mine Ban Treaty, formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, bans completely all anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines). There were originally 855,000 signatories of the petition launched by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1997; when the Convention was opened for signature, it was signed by 133 countries; as of 10 May 2009, there were 156 States Parties to the Treaty. Thirty-seven countries have not signed the treaty. The hope is to convince countries that have to date not signed the treaties, to finally, for all of humanity, ‘do the right thing’. Lastly, well in advance of my departure I plan to send out personal invitations to global leaders of economics, politics, environmental initiatives, medicine, science, arts, music, academics and ordinary people to invite them all to come join me for a mile or two along my walk to discuss how we can collectively make a lasting difference for the future of humanity.

Dan Travers (USA) - The Rivers Ran East
Daniel Travers (M), 43 years / Tammy Leland (F), 43 years
Address: 2115 E. Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98112 USA
Phone: 206-898-0078
Email: dtravers@seanet.com / tammy@crookedtrails.com
Education: Dan: BA Psychology from Cornell University and MBA from University of Washington / Tammy: BS Geology from University of Washington and Masters in Environmental Education from Western Washington University
Reference contact: Lane Wilkinson, ExOfficio, 206-553-9299. Jorge Riveros Cayo, Peruvian Journalist. 011-51-993300823 Lima
Your favorite proverb or quotation: "Life shouldn't be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly shouting.......Wow! What a ride!"
Tell us about your project: RE-DISCOVERING THE 7 LOST CITIES OF GOLD! In 1947, former OSS agent, retired US Army Colonel, and explorer Leonard Clark, came into possession of a secret map that led him to 7 ancient cities of gold deep in the Amazon jungle of Peru. Despite being chronicled in his book, The Rivers Ran East, has anyone tried to confirm this historical discovery? Our Quest: To retrace Leonard Clark's route along the Maranon River in Northern Peru, confirm his claims, and find these ancient ruins. It all started with a dusty old book we found on a shelf of the great Powell's bookstore in Portland, Oregon. The River’s Ran East, written in 1952, recounts the incredible adventure of legendary explorer and US secret agent, Leonard Clark. He received a tattered and incomplete 500 year old map from a Lima family of the sole survivor of a jungle massacre in the early 1500s. Clark goes on to describe how he used this map to discover 7 legendary cities of gold deep in the hostile, unexplored, Peruvian Amazon. Clark set out from Lima with $1000 in his pocket and struggled against lethal snakes, jaguars, boiling rapids, legendary Campa slave traders, and arrows from the Aguaruna headshrinkers that killed some of his compatriots. When he emerged from the jungle over the high Andes, 9 months later, he was leading a mule with $16,000 in gold dust strapped to it’s back. dtravers@seanet.com

Mount Everest Expedition (USA) - Everest 2010
The Foundation sponsored an expedition to summit Mount Everest in April and May 2010. The objective was to summit the mountain and this was achieved successfully on 17 May 2010.

Roger Chao (Australia) - Eurasian Steppe by Quike
On the 4th of May, 2009, Roger and Megan set off from Astana, Kazakhstan, into the Eurasian steppe on their four-wheeled Quike; Traversing the steppes at the heart of the Asian continent - whilst facing a continual battle of both the physical elements and the psychological forces within... They will venture throughout Central Asia, Western China, Mongolia, and Russia, away from cities and roads, living with local rural families to experience the unique cultures and lifestyles of the region, documenting their lifestyles and traditions before their stories are lost forever. Their 15-month journey will take them through all types of terrain - from the vast and endless Kazakh steppe to the relentless heat of the Uzbek summer, to the high altitude mountain passes of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic, to the frozen wastelands of the Taklamakan desert in winter, and then coming full circle to the origins of the Turkic peoples in the Altai range, and the birthplace of Chinggiz Khan in the central Mongolian steppe...

2009

Rick Gunn - www.rickgunnphotography.com/project.php (Dec 2006)