National Geographic named Pete McBride and Kevin Fedarko as 2017 Adventurers of the Year.
Pete McBride and Kevin Fedarko gave a keynote at Mountain Story in Jackson, WY called “The Grandest Journey” about their trek through the length of the Grand Canyon. Pete also conducted a photography workshop, “Chasing Light.”
Pete McBride and Jake Norton’s Film, Holy (un)Holy River, won Best Adventure and Exploration Film at the Banff Mountain Film Festival 2016 and Best Mountain Culture at the Torello Mountain Film Festival 2016.
Check out the film’s trailer:
See the progression of Pete and Kevin Fedarko’s entire journey through the Grand Canyon by checking out this interactive map on National Geographic. National Geographic also published Pete and Kevin Fedarko’s story, Are We Losing the Grand Canyon?, and their three part video series documenting their 650-mile Grand Canyon journey was published on National Geographic.
Pete was a podcast guest for the The Fresh Water Trust, talking about his recent 600-mile plus walk through the Grand Canyon and what inspires him to chase rivers.
Pete appeared as a co-host on the PBS show Water/Earth: A New Wild.
Winner of:
Banff Mountain Film Festival — Best Feature
Lookout Film Festival — Best Documentary & Audience Favorite
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival — Director’s Award
Nature Tracks Film Festival— Best Adventure Feature & Audience Choice Awards
Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival— Best Director
5 Point Film Festival— Honorable Mention
Winner: Public Lands Book of 2019
The New Yorker: “The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation”
National Geographic: “Protecting the silence in America’s most iconic landscape”
Smithsonian Magazine: “The Last Quiet Places”
National Geographic: “‘You are the only passenger’: How I returned to an empty world”
American Airlines | American Way: “Going Deep: 750 miles of the Grand Canyon”
Sierra Club: “Into the Grand Canyon—and Beyond”
Mountain & Prairie:
The Dirtbag Diaries: “Mileposts — Greater than the Sum of its Parts”
with Kevin Fedarko
