Holly Edelson was awarded the Shipton-Tilman Grant for a solo winter unsupported sea kayak expedition through 1600km of the Inside Passage. She was an elected Fellow of The Explorer's Club for her graduate research on arctic wolves, caribou, moose and bear at the Institute of Arctic Biology. Holly's solo sea kayak expeditions along some of the roughest areas of the Alaskan coast were firsts or rarely done solo, at a pace of 65-100 km per day. She is an ice and alpine climber having climbed around the Antarctic peninsula, the Alaska and Hayes Ranges (including Denali), the Alps, Himalayas, and soloed mountains in eastern Alaska. She began exploring on many 800 - 1600+ km solo bike expeditions across Alaska and the Yukon, summer and winter, covering 130-290 km a day, camping in her bivy sack in the snow. She has biked through the tundra in winter (-45 F) and raced canoes 1000 km in 4 days in the Yukon. Holly has given lectures and workshops in New York City on winter kayaking, winter survival strategies, solo expeditions, navigation, tides and currents, and expedition planning.She heads back to the Himalaya this fall, then Vinson Massif in '09/'10. Holly joins us from all over.