ATTA Team

Shannon Stowell ~ President

 “There is a fine line between calculated risk and craziness. I occasionally find myself squarely on either side of that line in adventure travel, outdoor pursuits and even in my work. There is reassurance, though, in Soren Kierkegaard’s quote: To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
~ Shannon Stowell

Shannon’s personal and professional background is well suited for the adventure travel industry. He’s lived in Fiji, trekked Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and China, and has spent time in many places around the world including Taiwan, South Africa, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Brazil, Qatar, Norway, Mexico and Canada. Among the diverse adventures he’s enjoyed: summiting Mount Rainier & Mount Hood, diving in Mexico, sitting out a riot in Jakarta, being involved in Fijian kava ceremonies, caving in Thailand, and many more. Shannon is an active traveler, trail runner, swimmer, mountaineer, skier and fly-fisher. He brings a special passion to this industry borne of experience and a desire to see others experience the world in a richer way. His 17+ years of business experience, connections, marketing insight, environmental science, vision and passion for adventure travel have prepared him well to serve and lead as the president of the Adventure Travel Trade Association. Early in his career, with a B.S. Biology from Seattle Pacific University, Shannon worked as a fisheries observer on ships in Alaska for the National Marine Fisheries Service. After a stint on the Bering Sea, and work with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, he spent eight years at an environmental testing laboratory as a biologist/chemist. He was promoted into management to develop and spearhead the company’s international vision and Asian presence with the President of North Creek Analytical International.

Shannon then engaged in the dot-com revolution as a co-founder of Altrec.com, a successful outdoor and adventure travel gear retailer (www.altrec.com). He directed the company’s business development, affiliate marketing and non-profit relations for six years. Despite the dotcom boom and bust, Altrec survived, then thrived. During his time at Altrec.com, he struck deals with Amazon.com, CBS Sportsline, National Geographic and National Geographic Adventure, Backpacker Magazine, Virtuoso, Nike, Gore-Tex, Outward Bound, Virtuoso and Mountain Travel Sobek among many others. He wore many other hats during his tenure, overseeing aspects of marketing, PR, affiliate programs, ad sales, advertising program development and development of Altrec’s sister site, www.Greatoutdoors.com.

Under his leadership as president of the ATTA, the organization has grown into the largest international association of adventure travel companies with nearly 500 members and dozens of tourism boards, major corporations and influential individuals helping propel industry initiatives forward.  The ATTA also hosts the Adventure Travel World Summits.  Shannon also co-authored a book in 2008, published by National Geographic: Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean- A guide to 50 Extraordinary Adventures.

Committed to non-profit endeavors, Shannon served for four years on the Board of the American Hiking Society. He has also directed several community plays, been the vice-chairman in a community political group, serves with his local church and served on the Library Board at his local library. Raised on the Arkansas River in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Shannon today lives with his wife, Shelly, and two children in the Seattle area. 

Feel free to contact Shannon at any time to discuss the Adventure Travel industry or the Association.

Chris Doyle ~ Vice President, Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) & Editor, AdventureTravelNews™

“My traveling mantra goes something like this: Carry adventure in your soul. Allow your imagination to run wild, always. Let ‘it’ come to you. Keep an open mind and heart. Imbue yourself in and embrace the ways of the peoples and cultures you visit. Empathize. Understand. Learn. Grow. Give back.”
~Chris Doyle

Active in road and mountain trail marathons, Chris Doyle is a long-time enthusiast of adventure travel, with first-hand whitewater rafting, fly-fishing, backpacking, sea kayaking, mountain biking and mountaineering experience on five continents.

Since 2004, Doyle has played a key role in the organization’s strategic direction and development and continues to drive its research, marketing, public relations and communications, and directs the content and execution of ATTA’s annual Adventure Travel World Summit and Webinar programs.

For nearly 20 years, he’s offered an array of strategic public relations and business expertise in the retail, technology, sports and outdoors, adventure travel, fashion, home furnishings and non-profit sectors. He’s managed corporate reputations and developed extensive national awareness campaigns for retailers and manufacturers, supported the launch of six Internet concerns, worked extensively with trade organizations and industry analysts, launched numerous private-label product campaigns and managed consumer affairs crises.

As principal of Doyle Public Relations (2001-2006), he handled media relations for Eagle Creek (www.eaglecreek.com), ExOfficio (www.exofficio.com), Converse (www.converse.com), Gateway (www.gateway.com), Altrec.com, MariSafe.com, American Alpine Club, and numerous others. Doyle also led public relations efforts at Eddie Bauer (www.eddiebauer.com), and handled corporate media and community relations for Recreational Equipment, Inc., (www.rei.com) and its adventure travel business, REI Adventures (www.reiadventures.com). An award-winning public relations professional, Doyle has actively maintained his Public Relations Society of America accreditation (APR) status since 1996.

Chris Chesak ~ Vice President, Business Development

"Adventure, naturally, involves some risk. Risk is, inherently, a challenge. And challenge, ultimately, creates exhilaration.”
~Chris Chesak

Chris Chesak has more than 11 years experience forging corporate partnerships and in organizational development. His past partnerships focused on the outdoor industry, bringing apparel, gear, and footwear companies like The North Face, REI, and Gore-Tex together with grassroots partners The American Alpine Club, American Hiking Society, and Winter Wildlands Alliance.

As a boy, Chris always dreamt of leaving his hardscrabble, blue-collar Massachusetts hometown for parts unknown. He dreamt of great adventures, wrote stories about exotic lands, and devoured books about both.

But practicalities (and a lot of hard work) first took him to Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) were he garnered four varsity letters in football, attended the Wesleyan Writer's Workshop and an intensive International Relations semester at The American University in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. in English and International Politics.

While his childhood dreams were of other continents, he realized that he first needed to know his own nation. After a year of skimping and saving his paltry salary as a reporter and photographer for a regional newspaper, he took off in a battered VW Golf for two months of solo travel across the U.S., sleeping in state parks, National Parks, youth hostels, and a few times in the Golf itself. In the hostels and on the back roads, he met more Germans, Kiwis, and Aussies than he could count, further inflaming his desire to travel farther, outside his nation's borders.

But work took him to Washington, D.C., and a year long stint at the U.S. Supreme Court, followed by three years working in marketing, conferences and trade shows, and on international subsidiary rights for an environmental book publisher. From there, Chris gravitated to the outdoor industry and began work for the American Hiking Society where he managed the National Trails Day program with such partners as Vasque boots, Thorlos socks, Vibram soles, Backpacker magazine, REI, EMS, and Altrec.com. He also participated in trail-building 'vacations' in Kentucky and California, backpacked through Shenandoah National Park, and attended a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) trip leader course.

His next stop was Golden, Colo., where he ran the development program for the venerable organization The American Alpine Club and achieved triple-digit growth in his programs. With the AAC, Chris retooled their membership development, appeal, and branding programs and built partnerships with The North Face, Gore-Tex, Helly Hansen, and numerous mountaineering guide services. In his spare time, he climbed mixed routes and ice in Rocky Mountain National Park and made a wind-blown winter attempt on Mount Rainier. His national tour then took him to settle in Boise, Idaho, where he became a grant writer and consultant to outdoor associations, most notably Winter Wildlands Alliance.

His most recent adventure was, regrettably, being deployed to Iraq for a year with the Idaho National Guard, but he still managed to have some fun along the way (including writing a blog and 'Letters from Iraq' articles for the Idaho Statesman). He looks forward to someday returning to the city of Kirkuk to explore the ancient ruins, distribute yet more candy and toys to the children, and to see the city through anything but night vision goggles. Currently he spends one weekend a month attending Officer Candidate School.

Chris is an avid climber, skier, backpacker, and writer, having published fictional works in several literary quarterlies and non-fiction in national outdoor publications. He is also a devoted husband to his wife Sally and father to his daughter Lillian.

Jason Reckers ~ Director of Online Strategies

“Adventure, for me, begins with seeing cultures worldwide come together, and, initially, all through the eyes of my laptop. Every day is a new experience filled with the education of new people, cultures, and the power the Internet has in connecting us all. Most importantly, the adventure lies in the future where we just might have the chance one day to meet those on the other side of the globe face-to-face.”
~Jason Reckers

Jason Reckers, President and CEO of PixelMill, has more than 10 years of experience providing web strategy guidance and training to professional services firms, trade associations, business and web consulting companies, and a host of industry sectors. Under his direction, PixelMill has contributed to the development of more than 65,000 web sites. Jason connects daily with diverse customers on topics ranging from web site development and web site marketing strategies to search engine optimization and web site standards. As a strategic partner of the Adventure Travel Trade Association, he provides ATTA with consultation on web site strategies and features, web-based products and services, and manages .travel authentication.

Murray Bartholomew ~ Membership Administration

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
~Helen Keller

Murray has been hard wired for the world of travel and outdoor recreation since childhood. He, along with his family, has explored many parts of the world. He has gained indelible impressions of diverse cultures drawn in part from an extended journey to Indonesia – hearing people worship in a foreign tongue, smelling the scents of tea plantations, and observing vast economic inequities. Spending time in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bali, he realized further that the world’s culture is far broader than he could have imagined. Nothing like a little first-hand experience to awaken the mind.

In college, he leapt at opportunities to leave America’s borders. Though not a Literature Major, he studied South African Literature at its source. During a month’s stay along the southern coast of Africa, he read novels depicting the Apartheid and then saw its lingering effects and an optimistic country in recovery. For his International Business Degree at Seattle Pacific University, he studied for a time at Oxford University in England, and then headed to Barcelona to study at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In Barcelona, he immersed himself in Spanish culture; he lived with a Spanish family, ate their food, spoke their language, and gradually learned how to fit in well enough to be confused as a Spaniard.

In joining the ATTA, Murray is carrying out his dream to be intimately involved in international business. In 2004, he worked for Agros International, a non-profit organization that empowers indigenous people in Central America through land loans and training. The locals use the new land to cultivate to become self-sustaining, and to establish productive and economically viable communities. He rigorously analyzed the company’s operations in Central America, and then reported to the company’s president how Agros could be more helpful during their frequent service trips and provide the maximum value to the new village and its inhabitants.

Being raised in a family of outdoor enthusiasts, including his father who served as an executive in the outdoor recreation and manufacturing industry, adventure was never far away. Even as young as two months old, Murray, a native of Washington State, could be seen in the mountains. Active in the Scouts, he learned to appreciate hiking. In his teens, he pursued more serious endeavors, including 50 mile hiking trips in the rugged North Cascades. After earning his Eagle Scout, he did what America’s forefathers did, stepped out a little further and went on to explore the “last” American frontier — Alaska. There, Murray boned up on his glacial ice climbing and white water rafting skills throughout the 24/7 summer sun of Denali National Park. He even chose to attend Seattle Pacific University in a large part for its proximity to adventure. After he and his brother got their first set of climbing gear, he started what really should have been his Major; nearly every sunny day (i.e. every non-rainy day in Seattle) he rock climbed at Washington State’s premier locations: Index Town Wall, Peshastin Pinnacles, or Castle Rock.

Murray joined the Adventure Travel Trade Association in August 2005 in support of the Adventure Travel World Summit. After contributing to this event’s success, he has shifted roles and now coordinates the ATTA membership program.

Lisa K. Alley ~ Business Development

“In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved…”
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Believing sustainable adventure tourism creates experiences for travelers, entrepreneurs and communities around the world that will inspire poverty alleviation, environmental conservation and cultural preservation within destinations otherwise negatively impacted by the globalizing world, Lisa’s work has consistently focused in developing economies. Recently, prior to her work in India with Xola Consulting and joining the ATTA, she consulted on and managed development projects around the world for Nathan Associates Inc.

During her tenure at Nathan Associates, Lisa managed the communications and public relations strategy for Nathan’s project with the Association of South East Asian Nations. She designed the strategy while residing in Indonesia home to the ASEAN Secretariat. Also, as a member of the Trade and Investment Group at Nathan, Lisa spent nearly 3-years as a Trade Specialist in El Salvador on the Export Promotion for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises project. The project assisted and trained 1,500 small and medium sized enterprises, 370 of which have exported products leading to the generation of 3,000 new Salvadoran jobs. She provided assistance in commercial design, product and brand development, product marketing, association building, tourism competitiveness and the fostering of international strategic business alliances.

Lisa’s talents were also showcased while working for the Sustainable Tourism Editor at National Geographic Traveler Magazine and on the Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Growth Project aimed at developing ecotourism destinations throughout Bulgaria.

Lisa has always sought to link her personal and professional life through travel and tourism.  On the move ever since her first annual family ski trip - an Alley family tradition since she was five-years old – Lisa has in recent years enjoyed photographing “decisive moments” in several nations, trekking through the Peruvian Andes, scaling Salvadoran volcanoes, exploring the underwater world of Indonesia, and discovering new trails in the Grand Canyon and on the slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

Happily based now in the United States, Lisa splits her time between Northern Arizona and the San Francisco Bay Area after several years in Washington, D.C, Indonesia and El Salvador. She has a BA in Hospitality from Northern Arizona University and MBA from The George Washington University with a focus on Environmental Management and Sustainable Tourism.

ATTA Associates

Moe Carrick ~ Strategic Partner, Consultant

Moementum (www.moementum.com) Founder and Principal Moe Carrick has woven a cohesive and provocative tapestry of personal leadership experiences, Fortune 100 consulting, academic and institutional learning, keynote addresses, authorship, strategic partnering, and masterful facilitation. Her diverse background, which spans more than two decades, makes Moe an ideal partner for those who possess the power and desire to achieve concrete and lasting change for themselves and their organizations.

Moe grounds her approach in a unifying and undeniable truth: successful work is dependent upon human relationships. Moe believes that people and human relationships can stand between our successes and failures when not managed well. Her work begins and ends at the critical juncture where people and organizations must solve root issues while simultaneously sustaining the motivation to become better.

Counted as one of the nation’s foremost leaders in adventure learning, one of Moe’s on-river forays with senior executives on the nation’s most threatening white-water rapid were recorded in Fast Company’s, “Extreme Off-Site” feature story (1999). Straddling mainstream organizational consulting with best-of-the-best wilderness education as faculty for the National Outdoor Leadership School, Outward Bound, and Project Adventure, Moe’s varied contributions to people and organizations have consistently stimulated positive ripple effects with direct and favorable impact to the bottom line.

Her lifelong adventurous spirit and story-telling prowess coupled with her inspirational, witty, and humorous style, earn Moe rave reviews following keynote addresses, training events, and consulting experiences. Her visionary mind allows her to translate her experiences into engaging and interactive presentations, which both predict and reflect emerging trends.

Moe holds a BA from the University of New Hampshire, an MS in Organizational Development from Antioch University, and numerous relevant certifications.

Christina Heyniger ~ Associate

“Adventure travel has given me something I treasure more than the physical: a sense of purpose, clarity, energy and inspiration.”
~Christina Heyniger

Christina is the president of Xola Consulting, Inc and an associate with the Adventure Travel Trade Association. Christina has ten years experience in business management consulting, specializing since 2004 in marketing and development work in the adventure tourism industry. In cooperation with ATTA and the rest of the Xola team, Christina's current focus is on supporting public and private sector initiatives which seek to create adventure tourism markets as a means of driving human and environmental development.

Christina's work has supported adventure travel tour operators and governments around the world including Africa, Asia (particularly SE Asia), South America and North America. She speaks regularly at industry and academic conferences on topics ranging from small business management to humanitarian aid and international development through responsible tourism.

Christina earned her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1993; her Master of Arts from Georgetown University in its Communication, Culture and Technology program; and her Master of Business Administration from American University specializing in Entrepreneurship in 2004.

Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Christina now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Paula Mendes ~ Business Development

“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
~Steven Jobs

Fun, quirky, passionate, curious and adventurous, Paula has been  seeing the world from many different perspectives.

Travel is the cornerstone of her existence, bringing new and exciting foods, people, music and culture to enrich her life and challenge her understanding of the world around us.

Born to Portuguese parents, Paula grew up in Timor, Macao and finally Australia where her parents still maintain there little outpost of the Portuguese empire. Fueled from a childhood experience with her mother in the Middle East, Paula has gone from the Australian outback to the most storied places in the world. Highlights include Machu Picchu, the orangutans of Borneo, diving with stingrays in the Caribbean, and  surfing the world from Australia to Costa Rica to Portugal... And even the frozen waters of Tofino, BC.

Adventure is what you make it, and Paula is happy just being "out  there", no matter if it's pedaling around Napa looking for the perfect $10 shiraz, visiting relatives in Portugal, or a Pacific Northwest road trip with her loving family.

But the world has slowly become Paula's home away from home. A devoted snowboarder, she fell in love with the Whistler area where she and her partner have "settled" into their biggest adventure yet, a 10-month old son who shares there strong spirit, inquisitive nature, and pursuit of laughter. She enjoys gardening around her home, snowboarding and mountain biking in her backyard, and the local farmers markets in search of the perfect tomatoe.

Paula has been a standout within the tourism industry ever since she first set foot in Whistler, BC, over a decade ago.  She is a well loved local for her strong character, friendly personality and welcoming charm. Having built a successful career with companies like Intrawest and Tourism Whistler, first as a snowboard instructor and recently as a corporate sales manager, she truly emanates her mantra, "love what you do".

Hong Zhao ~ Associate

"Travel around the world, adventure travel in particular, is a wonderful experience that enriches and creates powerful memories you carry for life"
~Hong Zhao

Hong has been in senior management positions over the past 15 years and has been responsible for international technical and engineering management, business development, and venture operation management for several large US and Canadian companies, including AT&T Wireless and Nortel Networks. In those international management roles, he has traveled the world, from Asia to Europe, from North America to Central America. Travel has been an integral part of his business life. In his most recent duty at AT&T Wireless where he served as a senior director of engineering and a senior director of business development, he led his engineering team and implementation team developed and deployed cellular networks in the whole Caribbean region from Bermuda to Curacao, from Cayman to Barbados, explored the mountains and jungles (using machetes from time to time to create paths) for cellsite location selection. He has accumulated rich experiences in government relations, business development and operation management, which he brought in with him to the ATTA. Born and raised in Beijing, Hong speaks Mandarin and English fluently.

Hong's rich international business experience, bi-lingual capabilities and knowledge of technology and travel make him an ideal team member as the ATTA works with many international governments, NGOs and companies.

When he is at home in the beautiful emerald city of Washington, he enjoys hiking, camping and biking with the family and friends. Hong received his PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Victoria, British Columbia in 1993 and owns many US patents.

Paige Schneider ~ Associate

Paige P. Schneider is a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University. She holds an M.A. in Recreation and Tourism from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. Paige’s research has focused on marketing, communication, and consumer behavior related to tourism, with a special interest in adventure tourism. She believes adventure travel offers experiences that promote cultural understanding, fulfill personal dreams, and encourage environmental sustainability.

Paige has 15 years of experience as a travel consultant and manager of a Virtuoso member agency in Perrysburg, Ohio. She is a Certified Travel Consultant (CTC), an Adventure Travel Specialist (ATS), and has completed four Destination Specialist (DS) certificates during her career. Viewing travel as “a life-changing experience,” Paige has been passionate about adventure since her first adventure in the San Juan Island of Washington State. Since then she has actively participated in adventure travel, hiking, biking, and kayaking throughout the world. Her latest favorite places include the beautiful islands of Croatia and the breathtaking Pacific Lowlands of Nicaragua.

Paige is an active member in The Travel Institute (formerly ICTA), the Communication Majors Association (CMA) at Michigan State University, and the Travel and Tourism Research Association (TTRA), at whose June 2006 conference in Dublin she won Best Illustrated Paper Presentation.

Paige also volunteers for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northwest Ohio and, since 2004, has been a research associate with the Adventure Travel Trade Association and a member of the advisory council for the startup of Green Travel Magazine, which is to launch in 2007.

Paige Stringer ~ Associate

“Adventure travel offers inspiration for the soul and reflection for the mind. The world’s countries and cultures are waiting to share with you. Strap on the boots, open yourself to new opportunities, and get outside yourself. You will return a changed person, a wiser person, for the experience.”
~Paige Stringer

Paige Stringer has 10 years of marketing and business development experience from Amazon.com, the Clorox Company, The Wilkinson Group cause marketing agency, and various professional and collegiate sports entities.  Her desire to combine her professional skills with her interests in writing, travel, and altruism led her to the Adventure Travel Trade Association where she contributes to marketing and communications efforts.

Paige’s travel odyssey began when her family moved to England from the United States when she was a mere two months old.  She spent the first three years of her life exploring Europe from atop her father’s shoulders.  That early experience instilled an innate passion for adventure, and she has kept her passport at the ready ever since.  Her success as a Division I collegiate tennis player offered opportunities to play tennis and travel throughout Europe and Scandinavia.  She has since returned to Europe several times (from a lower vantage point) and has seen parts of South America and Mexico.  In our own country, she has trekked Alaska’s glaciers, cat-skied the Rockies, and stopped just short of her goal to visit 30 states in her 30th year.  Her travels and adventures have given her an appreciation of foreign cultures, and an awareness of environmental stewardship that remains a large part of who she is today.

Paige has a Bachelor’s degree in Forest Resource Management and a certificate in Public Relations, both from the University of Washington. She also holds a Master’s degree in Sports and Recreation Management from the University of San Francisco.

Paige lives in Seattle where she has embraced the Northwest outdoor lifestyle (although she still cannot stomach the taste of coffee). She enjoys hiking, skiing, trail running, cycling, and racing duathlons.  She serves as board Vice President for Listen & Talk, and is a member of the Washington Environmental Council.

Natasha Martin ~ Associate

"For me, the best travel pushes my personal limits and helps me discover what I'm capable of."
~Natasha Martin

Natasha has been traveling her entire life. She was lucky to be born into a family of wanderlusters and has had the good fortune to learn about the world by visiting it. She is very proudly Canadian, and currently lives in Vancouver. However, as the child of a Foreign Service officer, she grew up around the world and has lived in Barbados, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Palestinian Territories, the US, Japan, and Scotland. She travels at every available opportunity and her favorite trips have been diving in Malta, trekking in Ladakh and hiking in Quebec, especially in the Fall.

After graduating with a degree in African History from Concordia University in Montreal, Natasha began to pursue a career in development by interning at the United Nations in Nairobi, working at a Canadian NGO and at the Canadian Senate. It did not take her long to realize she could not sit behind a desk. She had the good fortune to meet Christina Heyniger in India – and has been working for Xola Consulting ever since.

At Xola, Natasha's research supports Xola ATDI Feature Adventure Destination assessments. Her adventure tourism market research also includes primary and secondary research into industry trends; in 2008 Xola and ATTA will release her work studying the adventure tourism preferences of "GenY" travelers. In addition, she edits and manages day-to-day operations for Off the Radar. Natasha supports ATTA business development, especially in Spanish speaking countries.

Advisory Board

The ATTA would like to thank the following individuals for their participation with our Advisory Board. Follow the link to learn more about these incredible people....

Mike Adams, Travel Footwear, W. L. Gore and Associates

Richard Bangs, adventurer, entrepreneur, author, producer and director

Francis X. Farrell Publisher, National Geographic Adventure Magazine

Urs Eberhard Executive VP Markets & MICE, Switzerland Tourism

Nicky Fitzgerald Sales & Marketing Director, CC Africa

Rick Hemmerling Vice President Business Development – Buzz Off Insect Shield LLC

John Hogan Director – Qatar Airways

Kurt Kutay Founding Director and President of Wildland Adventures, Inc. and non-profit Travelers Conservation Trust

Perry Lungmus Director of Marketing, Cruise West

Thornton May Contributing Futurist - World Bank

Helen Nodland Traveler - Founder, Nodland Travel Enterprises

Everett Potter Author, Journalist

Gustavo Timo co-founder of ABETA (Brazilian Adventure Travel Trade Association)

Steve Trautman Principal, Solution Strategies; former Expedia manager

Russell Walters President, Northern Outdoors; former GM of O.A.R.S.

ATTA Advisory Board – Emeritus Members

Megan McCormick TV Show host for Globetrekkers

John Poimiroo Principal, Poimiroo & Partners; former Director of Tourism, California

Ed Viesturs Adventurer, Author and America’s Leading High-Altitude Mountaineer

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