Conversations with Explorers
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Now that travelling to the farthest reaches of the world is often as easy as booking a ticket, exploration has become more than just planting a flag on a mountaintop. enRoute gathered a group of maverick Canadian adventurers to discuss how exploration has changed and why it’s more important now than ever.
By Craille Maguire Gillies
Illustrations by Paul Willoughby
 Colin Angus
Angus wrote about his 43,000-kilometre human-powered circumnavigation of the world in his book Beyond the Horizon. Currently, he and his wife, Julie, are on a 6,500-kilometre self-propelled boat and bike expedition from his ancestral Scotland to her homeland of Syria. (Look for their story in an upcoming issue of enRoute.)
rowedtrip.com
 Julie Angus
A molecular biologist and filmmaker, Angus is also the only woman to row across the
Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland. Rowboat in a Hurricane, her book recounting that 145-day trip and looking at the future of our oceans, is due out this fall.
angusadventures.com
 Bruce Kirkby
This engineer-turned-photographer-and-writer has ridden a camel through Arabia’s southern desert, motorbiked across Mongolia, and hiked across Patagonia with his seven-month-old son. Kirkby, who hosted CBC Television’s No Opportunity Wasted, is the author of The Dolphin’s Tooth: A Decade in Search of Adventure.
brucekirkby.com
 Wade Davis
Ethnographer, writer and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence Wade Davis appeared with Robert Kennedy Jr. in the recent documentary Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk. Just back from Colombia, Davis is currently making a film about that country’s Arhuaco tribe. He is also editorial director of the online magazine Cultures on the Edge.
culturesontheedge.com
 Meagan McGrath
An aerospace engineer with the Canadian Air Force, this mountaineer is the youngest Canadian woman to climb all Seven Summits. Just back from the Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert, McGrath will be leading a bush camping safari and climb of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania this August.
meaganmcgrathadventurer.com
 Jean Lemire
Filmmaker and marine biologist Jean Lemire spent 15 months in Antarctica for his film The Last Continent. (Look for his three-part series "Antarctic Mission" on The Nature of Things, June 28, July 5 and July 12 on CBC Television.) Lemire won a Canadian Environment Awards Citation of Lifetime Achievement in 2007. His next mission: promoting global access to safe drinking water.
sedna.tv, lederniercontinentlefilm.com
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