This website illuminates my life and adventures. My longing for freedom has led me to over 2600 of the world’s 3978 provinces, to every country on earth and to the summit of the highest peak on each continent (thank heaven for good weather!). In my travels, I learned to respect the intelligence and ingenuity of people of all races and callings both past and present. Come see the world as I see it: as a peaceful place, full of nature and beauty. With the right spirit and intent, we can make our world a virtual Garden of Eden.
DISTINCTIONS: BBC 2017 Travel Pioneer • Journal Articles • Explorer’s Club Flag Expeditions
World Parks Project • Walk Across South America • Jeff Shea Travel Map
Slovenia, Nova Gorica Prov, Town
Java, Borobudur, 1983 - In 1983, after my epic New Guinea adventure, I took a ship from Jayapura, Irian Jaya, New Guinea to Jakarta, Java. Kelly Soma and I traveled to Borobudur on the way to Bali. Borobudur is one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world, famed for the high quality of its stone reliefs. It is over 1000 years old.
Myanmar, Kachin Prov, Girl With Long Hair
Naxi Kitchen, 1993
China, Yunnan province - 8x10 film
UK, Barnett (London) Prov, Church
Greenland, Warming Island, off coast of Liverpool Land, Cross Fox Rolls In Snow, 2006 - This white fox came to our camp the first afternoon we arrived, no doubt curious and attracted to the smell of food. Here, it rolls in the snow.
Slovenia, Lukovica Prov, Horse Eye
UK, Tower Hamlets (London) Prov, Imam Who Knows The Koran By Heart
Slovenia, Kostel Prov, Burning Leaves
Tibet, Everest, North Face From Rongbuk Base Camp, Fall, 1998 -
This photograph was taken from Rongbuk base camp in the Fall of 1998. It shows the mountain after the monsoons. See other photo on this site in the spring, when the same view is much more rocky. In the center foreground is Changtze. The North Ridge route begins from Rongbuk, winds left around Changtze, then up the North Col. In this scene, the route is hidden from view until it emerges in the left middle of the photograph at about 8000 meters.