When Don Starkell and his teenaged son Dana put their 21-foot canoe in the water they had a simple plan: they would paddle south into the Mississippi system and keep going until they reached the mouth of the Amazon. Two years and 12,000 miles later Don and Dana had each paddled nearly 20 million strokes, and had lost and gained travelling companions. They had survived hurricanes, floods, and gigantic seas that all but drowned them. Read more...
When Don Starkell decided to travel by kayak the 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) from Churchill, on the Hudson Bay coast, all the way to Tuktoyaktuk, on the western Arctic coast near Alaska, he knew it would be tough. He would paddle his kayak across the bitter seas, and when they froze he would drag the kayak by sled across the ice, all the way through the Nortwest Passage. Read more...