Photographs by Jan Gurley-Broudo
Todd Balf, a former senior editor of Outside
magazine and a contributing editor of Men's Journal,
is the author of The
Last River,
the account of a fatal 1998 whitewater river trip in Tibet. He
first traveled to Panama’s Darién Gap in 1991—a
memorably flawed crossing in which he and his companions traveled
by foot, burro, and dugout canoe yet managed to see neither the
Pacific nor the Atlantic.
Email Balf at toddbalf@darkestjungle.net
The author as caricatured by his father,
Oliver Balf (left); entering the jungle in 2001
Photograph by Rob Mackinlay
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