"We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and by the very nature of their enterprises leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated.......We take this as a given for it is the foundation of our system, the way commerce extracts value and profit in a resource-driven economy. But if you think about it, especially from the perspective of so many other cultures, touched and inspired by quite different visions of life and land, it appears to be a very odd and highly anomalous human behavior."
-Wade Davis in The Wayfinders

May 23, 2009

More Outdated Pictures......

Well it seems that new photos attract more viewers. So, here are a handful of photos from a kayak trip a few years back. We were working on a documentary with filmaker Angus Yates in Russia. That site is http://www.boofingtheironcurtain.blogspot.com/. After helping Angus with the film, John, Jules, and I stayed another month and travelled to the Altai Mountains to do some great paddling with the Russians. What a wild bunch they are! I hope one day I can return and shoot some rapids and some vodka with Vasia, Oleg, The Doctor, Victor, Alex, Masha, Misha, and Antonio.

P.S. Remember we are trying to raise some cash money. Thankyou to our latest contributor of $5. That's all it it takes, a dollar here a dollar there!!


Chulycha River in Altai. Notice Vasia and Antonio in the bottom left.

Doctor on one of the many difficult rapids of the Chulycha.

Grace on the Khurkuria, a tributary of the amazing Chulyshman River.

Doctor showing how to do it Russian style. Hui-yaaaaak!

Vasia had the 1st descent on this gorge not long before he took us here. It was awesome.

Driving to the Karagem. We weren't following any roads, but some how made it to the river.

Argut and Karagem confluence. After 2 days we still had 4 more to go and some sweet action.

Of course we saw catarafters in the middle of nowhere. It is the Russian national past time.

Oleg navigating one of the more complex rapids on the Argut.

Victor "the man who forged us work visas so we could stay for three months" hiking into the Chulyshman. A true Altai classic.

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