A travelling
teenager with a passion for geography is hanging up his walking boots to embark
on a written adventure about an exploratory trip of a lifetime.
Daniel Evans
left his home in Filby to embark on a four-month trip through Alaska, America
and Canada at the end of last year after winning a gap year scholarship with
the Royal Geographical Society.
And after
touching back down on Norfolk soil, the 19-year-old, who has a passion for
travel writing and has documented his love of the planet in his online blog, is
now penning a book about his adventures.
The former
Flegg High School student said: “I’ve always enjoyed travel writing, but on my
American trip I only really used my blog to publish my work. I hope that this
book will set the foundations for potentially more books, as I embark upon
future trips.”
Daniel was
among thousands of students who applied for a scholarship. Keen to live the
American dream, while exploring some of the world’s most stunning landscapes,
Daniel used his £4,000 to jet off to Alaska, the USA’s west coast and Canada.
He spent most of his time in Alaska, where he studied the effects of global
warming on permafrost, and spent time with some of the world’s leading
professors on field trips and excursions.
He said:“The
other project I worked on was a pioneering investigation into trying to
calculate how much methane is bubbling from our world’s lakes. It meant very
cold work out on frozen lakes but the investigation has just featured in the
National Geographic and to have worked on a project, which has made it to those
glossy pages, is incredibly enriching.”
He is now
preparing for his next adventure – studying physical geography at the University
of London.
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