Thursday 7 March 2013

PRESS RELEASES

 
 
 
 
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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