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"Staff from EAD have played a key role in the development of inclusive expedition practices which involve disabled people in expeditions and fieldwork in a meaningful way."

Nigel Winser
Deputy Director
Royal Geographical Society
(with IBG)
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Our staff regularly participate in and support inclusive expeditions which involve disabled and non-disabled people. The internationally based research and adventure expeditions have focused on expanding opportunities and horizons whilst demonstrating best practice, sustainability and partnership.

The staff are also regular attendees and workshop facilitators at 'EXPLORE', the RGS-IBG’s expedition planners conference. We are currently developing a range of training for a training course on inclusive expedition practice to be hosted at the Royal Geographic Society – IBG in 2004. For more information please contact equal@equaladventure.co.uk

JUNE 2003
Canada to Alaska  TOP

In the summer of 2003, a group of sea kayakers will be the first inclusive paddling team to embark on a 1000 mile, 3 month journey through the fjords and glacier-draped mountains of Alaska and British Columbia’s coastline, following the Inside Passage. The team consists of a highly motivated group of 8 disabled and able-bodied paddlers.

The teams journey will follow "The Inside Passage", an intricate and exposed waterway used for generations to link First Nation fishing and whaling communities of the northern stretches of the Pacific to the icy waters of the north.

28 August – 9 October 2002

Wheel the World  TOP

A four person inclusive team undertook an overland expedition through East Africa, crossing Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, driving 4662 miles in a specifically equipped Land Rover 110.

Further Information

JUNE 2002
Burnside  TOP

The Burnside Expedition aimed to raise finance for the Heart of Kent Hospice. The fundraising challenge was to travel the length of the Burnside River in the barren beauty of Canada’s North West Territories. The two person team used one open canoe to travel the Burnside River. The two hundred mile challenge took team approximately three weeks to travel the class 4 river.

Further Information

MAY 2001
Iceland  TOP

A ten person team of able bodied and disabled adventurers. Using the natural resources of Iceland’s rivers and coast line to evaluate a rage of equipment whilst at the same time look at the development process.

Further Information

DECEMBER 1999/2000
Ganges  TOP

A team of five men and one woman able-bodied and disabled. During the team’s four months in India it managed to complete the majority of the proposed journey down the River Ganges, experiencing Indian life both on and off the river. The team however was not able to travel the whole length of the river for two main reasons; logistical problems involving getting medical supplies into India for day to day use by the disabled member of the team slowed progress, in addition security problems in Behair during the team’s journey made travelling through that region impossible.

Further Information and report

FEBRUARY 1998
Israel  TOP

The project focused on the development of kayak equipment for disabled people. The project involved disabled and non-disabled people from both the UK and Israel. The research involved user trials of postural support systems for people with spinal cord injury and for amputees. Safety equipment was also trialled.

Further Information and report

JUNE 1997
Coppermine River   TOP

An unsupported, canoe based expedition on a wilderness river, by a team of three disabled and three able bodied people. A 340-mile journey over eighteen days from Point Lake to the Arctic Ocean at the settlement of Kugluktuk.

Further Information and report

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