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Pete McBride & Kevin Fedarko<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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“INTO THE CANYON: Between River and Rim”<\/p>\n

Free tickets available for graduate students starting (TBD) through the UB Ticket Office<\/a>.\u00a0 1 per UB ID.<\/div>\n
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Tues., Nov. 11, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.
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More About Pete McBride<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Native Coloradan\u00a0Pete McBride\u00a0has spent two decades studying the world with a camera. An award-winning photographer, filmmaker, author and public speaker, he is a Sony Artisan of Light and has traveled on assignment to more than 75 countries for the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Google, The Nature Conservancy, and many others. He has spoken on stages for TEDx, The World Economic Forum, Pixar, Nat Geo Live, and more. His feature documentary,\u00a0\u201cInto the Canyon,\u201d was nominated for an Emmy in 2020, and his books\u00a0\u201cBetween River and Rim,\u201d \u201cSeeing Silence\u201d and \u201cChasing Water\u201d\u00a0have all won National Outdoor Book Awards.<\/p>\n

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Pete McBride |\u00a0<\/b><\/i>Photographer and Filmmaker<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Ashley Mosher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More About Kevin Fedarko<\/h2>\n
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Kevin Fedarko | Adventure Writer<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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Kevin Fedarko has spent the better part of the past twenty years writing about adventure, conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He studied Russian history at Oxford before joining the staff at TIME, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk, then later moved to Outside Magazine, where he was a senior editor. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times and Esquire, among other publications, and a trio of his stories from the Himalayas, the Horn of Africa and the Colorado River are anthologized in \u201cThe Best American Travel Writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fedarko, who lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona, is the author of \u201cThe Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon,\u201d which recounts the true story of a small wooden dory and three river guides who in the summer of 1983 pitted her against the largest flood to sweep the Colorado River in generations with the aim of setting an unbreakable speed record. The book, lauded as \u201ca masterpiece of literary nonfiction\u201d by the Oklahoman and \u201ca work of jaw-dropping scope and page-turning action\u201d by Southwest Books of the Year, won the National Outdoor Book Award and the Reading the West Award, was a finalist for a PEN Literary Sports Writing Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award and became a New York Times bestseller. It is regarded as an essential text for those who revere the Grand Canyon. Fedarko\u2019s latest book, \u201cA Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon,\u201d about his 14-month death defying odyssey through the Canyon with National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, also was listed as a New York Times bestseller, also won the National Outdoor Book Award, and received the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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