Bruce Barron facts for kids
Bruce Barron is an amazing explorer, guide, and photographer. He was born in Long Beach, California. He has traveled to many wild and remote places around the world.
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Exploring the World
Bruce Barron started leading trips into the wilderness when he was just 15 years old. He has guided expeditions to faraway jungles, tall mountains, thick forests, and dry deserts. He has explored places no one had mapped before. These include the Andes mountains, the Himalayas, the vast Amazon Basin, and West Papua in New Guinea.
The Heath River Adventure
One of his most famous trips was the Barron Pickard Heath River Expedition in 1996. On this journey, they found where the Heath River begins. This river forms part of the border between Peru and Bolivia for about 350 kilometers. It flows from the Amazon lowlands into the Amazon cloud forest.
The team wanted to follow the path of an old explorer named Colonel Percy Fawcett from his 1910 trip. Then, they planned to keep going to find the river's unknown source and be the first to travel down the entire river. Bruce Barron worked with the Royal Geographical Society in London. He studied Fawcett’s old maps and journals. In Peru, he worked with scientists and the Ese Ejja native tribe.
Connecting with Native Cultures
Bruce Barron has always been interested in how native people live and how they connect with nature. He has spent time with many different tribes. These include the Huaorani and Quijos-Quichua in Ecuador's Amazon. He also visited the Dani, Lani, Sentani, and Korowai tribes in West Papua, New Guinea.
He has also spent time with the Gurung, Tamang, Newar, and Sherpa people of Nepal. Other groups he has met include the Ngalop of Bhutan, the Ladakhi and Tibetan of Northern India, and the Maasai of Tanzania and Kenya. He also connected with the Berber of Morocco, the Quechua and Ese Ejja of Peru and Bolivia, and the Maya and Lacandon of Central America.
Leading Adventures and Training
In 1985, Bruce Barron started his own company called Barron Adventures. This company leads expeditions, organizes adventure travel, and teaches leadership skills. He has guided climbers up many famous mountains. These include Denali, Aconcagua, Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, and Kilimanjaro.
Besides guiding, Barron also created leadership programs. In the early 1990s, he helped the Russian Federation Education Committee. He worked with Dr. Evgeny Velikhov, who was a top science advisor for the Russian Federation. Barron provided leadership training to many leaders and teachers across Russia.
Photography and Films
Bruce Barron is also a talented photographer. His adventure photos have been shown in magazines like Esquire and Reader’s Digest. In 2013, he published a photo book called HUAORANI: An Amazon Tribe in the 21st Century. This book is about the Huaorani tribe in Ecuador’s Amazon Basin.
A documentary film was made in 2012 about his Heath River Expedition. It is called Amazonia: A Perilous Journey.
Works
Books
- HUAORANI: An Amazon Tribe in the 21st Century by Bruce Barron, published in 2013.
Film
- Amazonia: A Perilous Journey by Mike DePrez and Karon Aghotte, released in 2012.
