<p>After a 65-day Instagram/Internet/shower vacation I am back from the expedition! We had the trip of a lifetime and traveled more than 1,000 kilometers across Baffin Island. Here we’re testing out our handmade kayaks near Pangnirtung, Baffin.</p> <p><i>—<a href="https://www.instagram.com/eboomer/">@EBoomer</a></i></p> <p><a href="http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventurers-of-the-year/2012/jon-turk-erik-boomer/">Read Erik Boomer’s Adventurer of the Year profile.</a></p>

Kayaker Erik Boomer

After a 65-day Instagram/Internet/shower vacation I am back from the expedition! We had the trip of a lifetime and traveled more than 1,000 kilometers across Baffin Island. Here we’re testing out our handmade kayaks near Pangnirtung, Baffin.

@EBoomer

Read Erik Boomer’s Adventurer of the Year profile.

Photograph by Erik Boomer

Pictures: Adventurers on Instagram

Where Are They Now? What do you do after being named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year? Plenty. See what many of our honored Adventurers are up to today with these photos from Instagram (then follow them!).

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