Kike Arnal: Ironworks Artist of the Month Kike Arnal, a long time climber whose photography career has stemmed from his climbing adventures and excursions in his native Nenezuela, has joien with Tarek Milleron, an ecologist who specialized in tropical tree seeds and and seedlings. The two worked together to photograph, encourage, and teach indigenous people of the Caura River Basin, a section of Venezuela's Amazon Basin, to use traditional and sustainable methods in harvesting native forest palm fruit trees. Arnal, a regular contributor to The New York Times, Outside, Newsweek, and Mother Jones, has his photographs displayed at the Ironworks Gym.



Check out an article by Tarek Milleron on building a dugout in the Amazon.

Labels: Kike Arnal, New York Times, Tarek Milleron

  ¶ Thursday, August 13, 2009