PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES
Gordon is well known for captivating listeners with his images and tales of far-flung expeditions. His talks are tightly crafted, including musical interludes, but they are also energetic, spontaneous and light-hearted. A few of his past venues have included the National Geographic Lecture Series, The Explorer’s Club, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, The American Museum of Natural History, Telluride MountainFilm, the Banff Book and Film Festival and the Hague, as well as keynote presentations for scores of events and conferences.
TESTIMONIALS:
“Gordon Wiltsie possesses the gift of being able to captivate audiences with thrilling tales of adventure and exploration. His presentations always offer listeners that rare opportunity to step behind the camera with someone who is truly a master of photography---something that is always a winner with audiences at National Geographic.”
Greg McGruder
VP, National Geographic Live! and Museum
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To The Ends of the Earth – The Adventures of an Expedition Photographer
After many requests to assemble a retrospective of his work, Gordon has put together a program that focuses on his long quest to become a National Geographic photographer. This presentation, which loosely follows the flow of his book with the same title, begins with his high school dreams (and promising early photography) and follows some of the more notable ups and downs of the journey towards that goal. This is an inspirational talk, featuring some of his favorite images and stories, and he has given it to a wide variety of audiences and age groups. It also can be reshaped for specific groups or motivational purposes. |
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Scaling the Razor - Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
As documented in a cover story for National Geographic, this presentation follows some of the world’s best mountaineers (including Alex Lowe, Conrad Anker and Jon Krakauer) up the first big wall climb ever accomplished in Antarctica. Beyond simply showing this single adventure, Gordon – who has visited the continent more than a dozen times - leads viewers through a decade aviation history that made the expedition possible, showing us, en route, an unearthly landscape, heretofore unknown to the outside world. |
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Mongolia - In The Footsteps Of Genghis Khan
Join Gordon as he follows an epic migration of nomadic herders over perilous mountain trails between their summer and winter grazing areas. Together with hundreds of families and vast herds of cattle, yaks, camels, and other animals, he takes us centuries back in time and shows us an intriguing peek at this ancient, but increasingly threatened civilization on the move. (His pictures of this journey first appeared in National Geographic magazine.) |
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Arctic Big Wall Climbing
In the spring of 1998 Gordon joined a team of America's best big wall climbers, including Alex Lowe, Greg Child, Jared Ogden and Mark Synnott for a National Geographic-sponsored ascent of Great Sail Peak, one of the most difficult and beautiful cliffs in the world. The expedition began in a lonely Inuit hamlet and lasted almost two months as they struggled to reach the 4,000-foot cliff and then spent over thirty days climbing it. With this epic climb as a focus, Gordon’s shows both the terror and exhilaration of a frigid, vertical world, as well as a glimpse of his other widely varied Arctic expeditions – many to places few have traveled before. |
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