Circumnavigating Ellesmere Island, Canoeing Cape Horn & a Shaman in Western Siberia: Jon Turk Part 1

Jon grew up on the shores of a wooded lake in Connecticut, and he
attended Phillips Academy, Andover and then Brown University. Jon
earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Colorado,
in 1971. The same year, in honor of Earth Day 1, Jon co-authored
the first environmental science textbook in the United States. It
sold 100,000 copies and speaheaded the development of environmental
science curricula in North America. Jon Turk has written over 27
books in his lifetime. Jon began wandering the globe, visiting
people and places that were so far from my childhood upbringing.
Over the decades, Jon has kayaked across the North Pacific and
around Cape Horn, mountain biked through the Gobi desert, made
first climbing ascents of big walls on Baffin Island, and first ski
descents in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzia. In the summer of
2011, Jon Turk and Erik Boomer circumnavigated Ellesmere Island:
1,485 miles in 104 days. Jon is 67 years old, and still blessed
with fantastic health. Jon's body and he have an agreement. Jon
will take it to places where they have fun; it takes Jon to places
where they have fun. They're a team, Jon's body and he.

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