Bruce Barron

Barron began guiding backpacking and mountaineering trips at the age of 15, and has since led explorations to the remote jungles, mountains, forests and deserts around the globe. He has explored uncharted areas in the Andes, Himalayas, Amazon Basin, and West Papua New Guinea.

Most notable is the Barron Pickard Heath River Expedition[http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/sonene.htm 1996 Rio Heath-Sonene Expedition, Great Web of Percy Fawcett][http://www.barronpickardheathexpedition.com Barron Pickard Heath River Expedition 1996, page 1] in 1996, which discovered the source of the Heath River[http://sonene.wixsite.com/heath-river-amazon/1996-heath-river-expedition Discovery of the Heath River Source]. in the Peru/Bolivia Amazon Basin. The Heath River delineates the border of Peru and Bolivia for 350 kilometers from the Amazon basin lowlands into the Amazon cloud forest. The expedition's objective was to follow South American explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett's 1910 Expedition[http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/fawfourt.htm Colonel Fawcett's 1910 Heath River Survey Expedition, The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett], route and then continue on to discover the unknown sourceFawcett did not find the source of the Heath River. [https://www.barronpickardheathexpedition.com/the-source-of-the-river-heath The Source of the River Heath, The Geographical Journal, Royal Geographical Society, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Apr., 1916), p. 317] of the Heath River and make the first river descent. Barron worked with the Royal Geographical Society in London researching Fawcett’s original maps[http://www.barronpickardheathexpedition.com/#!maps/crkt Royal Geographic Fawcett 1910 Heath River Map compared to Barron’s 1996 Heath River Map] and journals and in Peru with biologists, anthropologists and the Ese Ejja native tribe.[http://www.barronpickardheathexpedition.com/#!ese-ejja/crbg paragraph 12, line 3]

Following a lifelong interest with the lives of indigenous peoples and their connection with the natural world, Barron spent time or lived with the Huaorani,[http://huaorani21stcentury.homestead.com HUAORANI An Amazon Tribe in the 21st Century Bruce Barron, 2013] and Quijos-Quichua of Ecuador’s Amazon over many years and with the Dani,[https://vimeo.com/118146554 Dani Expedition, West Papua Highlands, New Guinea Bruce Barron, 2014, New Guinea] Lani, Sentani and Korowai[https://vimeo.com/118373107 West Papua Korowai Expedition, Barron, 2014] tribes of West Papua, New Guinea, Gurung, Tamang, Newar and Sherpa of Nepal, Ngalop of Bhutan, Ladakhi and Tibetan of Northern India, Maasai of Tanzania and Kenya, Berber of Morocco, Quechua and Ese Ejja of Peru and Bolivia, Maya and Lacandon of Central America.

He established Barron Adventures, an expedition, adventure travel guiding and adventure leadership training[http://greatexploration.wix.com/bruce-barron#!the-team-thats-on-the-beam/c1b3v Shape Magazine, July 1991, pp 36, 118-119, Patricia Loverock, The Team That’s on the Beam] company in 1985. He has guided ascents to many peaks, including Denali, Aconcagua, Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Kilimanjaro etc.. Along with expedition guiding, Barron developed and implemented leadership and team training programs for organizations in the United States and internationally, including a leadership program in the early 1990s for the Russian Federation Education Committee with Dr. Evgeny Velikhov, chief science advisor for the Russian Federation, providing leadership training to leaders and educators throughout the country.[http://greatexploration.wix.com/bruce-barron#!velikhov-letter-to-barron/c1gp5 Letter from Dr. Evegeny Velikhov, 1993 to Bruce Barron]

Barron’s adventure photography has been published in Esquire[http://greatexploration.wix.com/bruce-barron#!conquest-of-aconcagua/c1et8 "Esquire" June, 1987, pp 72-91 The Passions of Men, Pushing the Mid-life Envelope] [https://classic.esquire.com/article/1987/6/1/pushing-the-mid-life-envelope (alternate link)] by William Broyles Jr. Climbing Aconcagua (guide and photography by Bruce Barron) and Reader’s Digest.[https://www.brucebarronexplorer.com/reader-s-digest Reader’s Digest, November 1987, pp 144-150 Conquest of Aconcagua, by William Broyles Jr., photos: Bruce Barron] Barron's photo documentary book, HUAORANI: An Amazon Tribe in the 21st Century,[http://huaorani21stcentury.homestead.com HUAORANI An Amazon Tribe in the 21st Century Bruce Barron, 2013] about the Huaorani tribal people of Ecuador’s Amazon Basin was published in 2013. A 2012 documentary, Amazonia: A Perilous Journey,[https://www.amazon.com/Amazonia-Perilous-Journey-Mike-DePrez/dp/B01HYF05F8/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1490305780&sr=1-1&keywords=amazonia+a+perilous+journey Amazonia: A Perilous Journey, documentary] Mike DePrez / Karon Aghotte, 2012 was produced about the Barron Pickard Heath River Expedition.

• HUAORANI: An Amazon Tribe in the 21st Century Bruce Barron, 2013.

• Amazonia: A Perilous Journey Mike DePrez / Karon Aghotte, 2012.

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• [http://brucebarron.com Bruce Barron home page]
• [http://brucebarronexplorer.com/ Bruce Barron explorer website]
• [http://barronadventures.com Barron Adventures website]

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