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Best of Adventure Video: Rob Gauntlett & James Hooper

July 14th, 2009 National Geographic Adventure Magazine Comments off
Rob Gauntlett & James Hooper

Imagine this. You climb Mount Everest by the time you're 19. And that's tame. You want to try something outrageous, something never before attempted. How about traveling from geomagnetic pole to geomagnetic pole in one frantic dash?

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Best of Adventure Video: Rick Ridgeway

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Rick Ridgeway

From mountaineer to environmental advocate.

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Best of Adventure Video: Maroy Correa Estenos & Sam Stime

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Maroy Estenos & Sam Stime

Field Science Award: Going long on the Amazon
The Amazon River is the largest and arguably most important waterway on the planet. It is also one of the most neglected. Maroy Correa Estenos, 26, and Sam Stime, 29, want to change that.

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Best of Adventure Video: Emma Stokes

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Emma Stokes

Discovery Award: The new Jane Goodall
By most standards, 2008 was not a banner year for wildlife conservation—unless you talk to Emma Stokes. In August, she dropped the equivalent of a neutron bomb on the scientific community: the existence of 125,000 lowland gorillas in a nearly untouched region of northern Congo.

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Best of Adventure Video: Ashley Clements

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Ashley Clements

Humanitarian Works Award: Dynamo in the disaster zone
The cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar. Iraqi refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. Georgia after the Russian invasion. These are not destinations most people seek out. But Ashley Clements is not like most people.

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