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Bernice Notenboom (born June 2, 1962 ) is a Dutch journalist , film producer , director and professional adventurer , best known for her documentaries on global warming .

Life

In his mid-twenties, Notenboom left the Netherlands, did a Master of Business Administration and worked at Wall Street and at Microsoft . She gave up this job to move to rural Utah and founded Moki Treks , a company specializing in rafting and traveling to indigenous cultures . In this context, she reported for National Geographic magazine , for example, on the Andaman and Nicobar island chains that were particularly hard hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the subsequent tsunami .

After receiving awards from Conservation International and National Geographic Traveler, she sold her company and pursued her career as a professional adventurer. She visited over 70 countries and numerous indigenous cultures. She visited the Arctic on behalf of National Geographic Traveler and reported on climate change for the next five years. In 2008 she was the first woman to visit the North Pole , the South Pole , and the Cold Pole (in Siberia ) in one year , as well as cross the Greenland Ice Sheet on skis. In 2009 she climbed the summit of Mount Everest , and made the documentary Himalaya Alert about it , in which she also pointed out the dangers of the Atmospheric Brown Cloud . At the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 she was a member of the official Dutch delegation.

Notenboom is involved in the six-part television series Tipping Points as presenter and co-producer, which was commissioned by the American broadcaster The Weather Channel and which deals with the tipping elements in the context of global warming. Her documentary On the Trail of the Climate was broadcast on Arte at the end of August 2014 .

It publishes articles in National Geographic Traveler , National Geographic (Dutch edition), the Outside Magazine, the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant and the Financial Times , and radio correspondent for the travel magazine Savvy Traveler of NPR . She also gives seminars, advises companies and gives lectures on sustainability .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Did Island Tribes Use Ancient Lore to Evade Tsunami? ( English ) National Geographic . January 24, 2005. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Meet Bernice - profile page on thetippingpoints.com
personal data
SURNAME Notes boom, Bernice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch journalist and adventurer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1962