When you travel to remote destinations, you have to be vigilant to stay safe and healthy. Those who travel smart and hope to stay healthy and safe will follow these traveling tips from Jeff Blumenfeld.
Jeff Blumenfeld
Jeff Blumenfeld is the editor and publisher of Expedition News, a newsletter, blog and website he founded in 1994 to cover news about the adventure marketing field. A Fellow of The Explorers Club based in New York, he is the organization’s former director of communications and is currently chairman of its Rocky Mountain chapter and member of its Flags & Honors Committee. He is the author of You Want to Go Where?: How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams (2009), and Get Sponsored: A Funding Guide for Explorers, Adventurers and Would-be World Travelers (2014). Blumenfeld also belongs to the American Alpine Club, based in Golden, Colorado, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London, where he has presented two talks on adventure marketing. In May 2013 he served as communications director for Dooley Intermed International’s “Gift of Sight” Expedition to Nepal ¬– an effort to deliver badly needed quality eye care to 700 impoverished villagers. He returned to Nepal in December 2017 to continue his work there. The latter trip was the subject of a documentary that can be seen at https://vimeo.com/256732590
