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2016 Presentation: Sarah Marquis

Sarah Marquis likes to walk. And walk and walk. She stopped counting the miles after circumnavigating the globe on foot once — when she walked through the Andes, the Australian outback and the Pacific Crest of the U.S., among other places. Still, she kept walking. In 2010, the National Geographic Explorer of the Year embarked on a three-year solo walk from Siberia to the southern Australian coast, a journey of almost 12,500 miles that entailed walking through the arid Gobi desert and the jungles of Laos and Thailand before boarding a cargo boat to Australia, where she walked across the forbidding continent. Along the way, she starved, overheated, froze, was held hostage and explored her own limits of self-reliance. As she explains, “After six months of an expedition, the noise stops in my head. I just go back to a basic animal connection. I’m hunting sometimes. I’m surviving, basically. Being with nature for 1,000 days in a tent, with no water, no wash — my idea in doing this is to be a voice for nature.” Marquis documented the journey in her international bestseller Wild By Nature. At Mountainfilm, she’ll talk about the rewards, and drawbacks, of her incurable wanderlust. “For me, walking is more than walking. I’m like a little bridge between humans and nature. I’m just there to try to communicate this connection that we’ve all got. It takes determination, a lot of courage and a lot of perseverance. It takes a lot, but anybody can do it,” she says.

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