Chris B received his Adventure Scholarship award back in 2019 and we’re excited to share this update from him!

Its been quite the adventure, that’s for sure!

The gliding I did with the grant certainly set me on the course for success thru my career. I ended up getting my commercial license and flying for work, starting out as a float pilot in Northern Ontario. Eventually I began flying out on the coast in British Columbia, an absolutely gorgeous area of the country and a challenging area to fly. Most recently, I began flying old turboprop airplanes in the Arctic and Antarctica. I flew a NASA reconnaissance looking at a lidar survey of the ellesmere glacier in the high arctic to track the level of ice change as a result of climate change.

This past winter, I did a research mission for 2 months in Antarctica. Some of it, I was living in a tent. I did 4 trips to the south pole. While I was down there, I managed to run a full marathon…. It was my first time running more than 8 miles. I’ve been picking up mountaineering as a skill as part of my work for an adventurous part tome on my days off in these field locations.

I can’t thank you enough for giving me the start I needed!

Learn more about Chris at Chris B – Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation