David Anderson: The Long Walk Expedition 2004
David Anderson, a National Outdoor Leadership School instructor, professional photographer and mountain guide, will be giving a multimedia presentation about his most recent adventure, a trek from Siberia to the Himalayas.
David Anderson and three friends spent past fall retracing the amazing journey of Slavomir Rawicz, chronicled in the book "The Long Walk."
The Long Walk is a true story of a remarkable trek to freedom. In 1941 Rawicz escaped from a Soviet labor camp in Siberia with six fellow prisoners. They spent a year walking over 4,000 miles of the most forbidding terrain on Earth, through the desolate Siberian tundra, the great Gobi desert, and over the Himalayas. Rawicz and his compatriots had no map, no compass or supplies, only a fierce determination to survive.
Mr. Anderson and his friends retraced Rawicz's route while providing medical supplies to remote communities and documenting the changes that have occured to the environment and local peoples over the past 60 years.
Come see Mr. Anderson's presentation about this amazing adventure. Brought to you by the University of Massachusetts Outing Club, and made possible in part by a grant from The Student Affairs Cultural Enrichment Fund.