Jon Bowermaster has chronicled numerous adventures (his own and others’) for many popular magazines and is the author of six books, including three collaborations with polar explorer Will Steger.
His explorations include dogsled travels in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and the Northwest Territories and first-ever raft descents of the Futaleufu River in Chile and the Shuiluo River in China (read his story in the November 1996 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC).
An ardent sea kayaker, Bowermaster has paddled the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian oceans—braving icebergs off the Labrador coast, Pacific gales along Patagonia, breaching eight-ton whales in Alaska, and—near Corsica—the “odd pot-shot from a bored mini-Mafiosa.”
Splitting his time between New York State and Paris, Bowermaster relies on the Web “perhaps more than most” to research writing projects and plan trips. “I’ve pretty much eliminated going to the library—which I used to do a lot.”
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