2012
Khumbu Final Update: GPR on Imja Glacier
So I’m skipping around a little bit here temporally, but I need a day to process my underwater footage, and I never finished the Khumbu story, so here it is! Backdated to 9-27-2012 So here we were, day 5. I’m … Continue reading
High Tech Piracy – Sonar Wreck and Reef Mapping in Kosrae
Two days of airplane island hopping from Hong Kong to Kosrae and I thought I would probably die of exhaustion – if you’ve ever flown Micronesia, you know what I’m talking about. Takeoff, fly an hour, land, get up, pull … Continue reading
The Last Khampa Warriors: Tales of Atrocity, Revenge, Escape, and Magic
One of the last surviving Khampa rebels displays his most prized possession: the protective charms given him and other Tibetan rebel fighters by the Dhalai and Penchen Lamas to protect them from Chinese bullets. I spent the day being regaled … Continue reading
Pema Ts’al Revisited!
Hey so, my mac charger broke and I don’t have the right images available to do my last khumbu update, but I wanted to write a little about my time here in Pokhara. Tomorrow I’m going to interview some of … Continue reading
Khumbu Update II: Getting Astral
Chris Rainier, in his last day with us at Imja, gave me a piece of wisdom. “Sleep is optional,” he said with a grin. The conversation was about night timelapses, or starlapses, and over the next four days I took … Continue reading
Haydom Hospital Funding Drive Successful
Amazing! We exceeded our goal on kickstarter, which means the haydom Hospital film is actually happening! The tentative dates for the shoot are mid November – mid December, so unfortunately it’s going to be awhile before we’ll have something to … Continue reading
About Daniel Byers
Daniel Byers is an expedition photographer and filmmaker, as well as an experienced climber, mountaineer, and diver. He has worked for National Geographic, the BBC, and USAID, crossing many of the world's extreme landscapes in an effort to tell stories that need to be told.