A blog in conjunction with our amazing sponsor Osprey Packs. Four days from today, I meet my international team of scientists, conservation workers, climbers, filmmakers, students, and volunteers at the airport in Blantyre, Malawi. We’re heading to Mozambique; we’re heading to the Lost Mountain. All totaled, 19 people varying in age from 19 to 55, from Brazilians to South Africans, … Read More
Skipping College Graduation for The Lost Mountain: Our Positive Tracks Youth Ambassador Grant Bemis
Grant Bemis is supposed to be donning his cap and gown for his college graduation next week. He’s going to put on his rock climbing harness and use a microscope with us up on the flanks of Mt Namuli instead. Grant is one of the Lost Mountain’s Positive Tracks Youth Ambassadors* and we asked him to share his thoughts as he … Read More
One Month Out– Exactly: New Team Members, New Plane Tickets, and Vice Grips
When we postponed our trip in October, I suppose you could say I had a hard time letting go. One morning this winter, my husband, Peter, needed to fix one of his crampons. “Have you seen the vice grips?” he asked. I was making coffee. I offered a somewhat cagey “mmmmhmm” in response. He sighed, “Mozambique quarantine?”
Positive Tracks and Next Gen Power For The Lost Mountain
Want to Double Your Donation to the Lost Mountain? Our partner, Positive Tracks, is a national, youth-centric nonprofit that helps young people get active and give back using the power of sport and adventure AND matches your fundraising dollars up to $20,000.* (By clicking above you’ll be taken to a PayPal site to make your tax-deductible contribution to the Lost Mountain via our fiscal … Read More
Lost Mountain Announces Partnership with 1% for the Planet
The Lost Mountain is honored to share that as of November, 25, 2013 we are a new nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet, an alliance of over 1,100 member companies in 48 countries that give one percent of revenues to environmental causes. The Lost Mountain is now eligible to receive donations from 1% member companies, placing them among a … Read More
Lost Mountain Return Date Set for May 10th, 2014
We are excited to share that we’ve set our new date for The Lost Mountain: May 10th 2014. We made our decision based on several factors, chief among them that the elections in Mozambique were last Wednesday and thus far everything has gone relatively well with both the election day and the immediate aftermath. Much of the violence that was … Read More
Re-Packing, More on Postonement, and What Spring Provides
It’s November 6th. I should be travelling overland from Malawi to Mozambique. I should be squished in a long base truck with my team alongside duffels of climbing gear, insect specimen nets, and enough food for fourteen people for twenty-one days. I should have my face pressed against the window with my eyes open wide saying oooh! See that? and … Read More
Civil Unrest in Mozambique: Lost Mountain Project Postponed to Spring 2013
Due to recent outbreaks of violence against civilians in Mozambique and indications of increasing tensions leading up to the country’s November 20th elections, we are postponing the Lost Mountain expedition. We had been scheduled to travel this Oct-Nov. We’ve been monitoring the news closely and communicating with contacts on the ground in multiple corners of Mozambique and surrounding countries. We … Read More
Going Camping: AKA, Climbing a Granite Big Wall, Discovering New Species for Science, and Starting a New Conservation Area.
Blog Post in Conjunction with: In seven days I will fly across the Atlantic, over the Sahara, toward Mozambique, and to the Lost Mountain. It has taken three years to get here—ie to be about to go there. Right now I am supposed to tell you I am ready and that I know what I am doing. I’m neither. Projects … Read More
Kickstarter Success and Gratitude
At 8:45 on August 29th we had our Kickstarter grand finale. You made this possible. Thank you for your support, encouragement, backing, sharing and more. We toast you with our success! For now, we wanted to say: