Editor and Gear Reviewer Holly Edelson was awarded the Shipton - Tilman Grant for a solo winter unsupported sea kayak expedition through 1600 km of the Inside Passage. She is an elected Fellow of The Explorer's Club for her graduate research on arctic wolves, caribou, moose and bear at the institute of Arctic Biology. Holly's solo kayak expedition along some of the roughest areas of the Alaskan coast were firsts or rarely done solo, at a pace of 65 - 100 km per day. She is an ice and alpine climber having climbed around the Antarctic peninsula, the Alaska and Hayes Ranges (including Denali), the Alps, Himalayas, and soloed mountains in eastern Alaska. She began exploring on many 800 - 1600 km solo bike expeditions across Alaska and the Yukon , summer and winter, covering 130 - 290 km a day, camping in her bivy sack in the snow. She has biked through the tundra in winter (-45 F ) and raced canoes 1000km in 4 days in the Yukon. Holly has given lectures and workshops in New York City on winter kayaking, winter survival strategies, solo expeditions, navigation, tides and currents, and expedition planning.
January 30, 2008
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Holly Edelson
Editor and Gear Reviewer Holly Edelson was awarded the Shipton - Tilman Grant for a solo winter unsupported sea kayak expedition through 1600 km of the Inside Passage. She is an elected Fellow of The Explorer's Club for her graduate research on arctic wolves, caribou, moose and bear at the institute of Arctic Biology. Holly's solo kayak expedition along some of the roughest areas of the Alaskan coast were firsts or rarely done solo, at a pace of 65 - 100 km per day. She is an ice and alpine climber having climbed around the Antarctic peninsula, the Alaska and Hayes Ranges (including Denali), the Alps, Himalayas, and soloed mountains in eastern Alaska. She began exploring on many 800 - 1600 km solo bike expeditions across Alaska and the Yukon , summer and winter, covering 130 - 290 km a day, camping in her bivy sack in the snow. She has biked through the tundra in winter (-45 F ) and raced canoes 1000km in 4 days in the Yukon. Holly has given lectures and workshops in New York City on winter kayaking, winter survival strategies, solo expeditions, navigation, tides and currents, and expedition planning.
Editor and Gear Reviewer Holly Edelson was awarded the Shipton - Tilman Grant for a solo winter unsupported sea kayak expedition through 1600 km of the Inside Passage. She is an elected Fellow of The Explorer's Club for her graduate research on arctic wolves, caribou, moose and bear at the institute of Arctic Biology. Holly's solo kayak expedition along some of the roughest areas of the Alaskan coast were firsts or rarely done solo, at a pace of 65 - 100 km per day. She is an ice and alpine climber having climbed around the Antarctic peninsula, the Alaska and Hayes Ranges (including Denali), the Alps, Himalayas, and soloed mountains in eastern Alaska. She began exploring on many 800 - 1600 km solo bike expeditions across Alaska and the Yukon , summer and winter, covering 130 - 290 km a day, camping in her bivy sack in the snow. She has biked through the tundra in winter (-45 F ) and raced canoes 1000km in 4 days in the Yukon. Holly has given lectures and workshops in New York City on winter kayaking, winter survival strategies, solo expeditions, navigation, tides and currents, and expedition planning.
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Moonlight Mission
We decided to go on a Moonlight Marathon. We climbed 800 meters from 8 pm to 9 am. It was a lot of fun climbing under full moon. We did a photo shoot as well. Al got really creative and pulled out some really wicked shots. most of them are long exposures.
Gravity's Test was the third climb we did and was by far the wildest night climb we'd done. It took me a while to motivate myself to get on this icicle. I'm glad I did though.
Moonlight Mission
We decided to go on a Moonlight Marathon. We climbed 800 meters from 8 pm to 9 am. It was a lot of fun climbing under full moon. We did a photo shoot as well. Al got really creative and pulled out some really wicked shots. most of them are long exposures. 
Gravity's Test was the third climb we did and was by far the wildest night climb we'd done. It took me a while to motivate myself to get on this icicle. I'm glad I did though.
At this moment in time I'm about to place my last screw and head for the finish. The only problem was that I accidently dropped my screw and was left with no other screw about 2 meters from my last placement and about 8 meters from the top. I had no choice but to keep going and run it out. I remember getting in a certain zone that I don't see to often. If I were to fall from the top it wouldn't of been good. Luckily I held it together and made it safely. I'll always remember that 10 minutes of my life.
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