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PLACES - Expedition Organiser, Fixer and Leader

Leading scientific and adventurous expeditions and combining them with community projects all over the planet, Andie has inspired many people and communities around the world.  As the jungle Technical Advisor for British Exploring and Deputy Chief Leader for BE Amazon expeditions in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017, Andie has previously been honoured as the mayor of a local Cocoma-Cocomilla village in the Pacaya-Samiria National Park for the work he has done in that community as Chief Leader on previous BE Amazon expeditions.

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Currently embarking on a new project, Andie is one of the primary leads in setting up a national charity that will be focusing on the development and well being of people wth learning and physical disabilities, mental health issues with young people, veterans and service men and woman, to enable, engage and riase performance through interventions, projects and overseas expeditions. Linking organisations such as community groups, Combat Stress, the NHS and more, the charity has developed a programme designed to empower and sometomes re-integrate individuals back into their communities and family life through the use of overseas and UK projects.

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He has recently returned from Morocco, where he helped complete a recce for an expedition for 2021, linking sub-sahara communities and projects to UK groups for mutual growth and benefit.

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Whether it is in the heart of the Amazon, deepest Africa, the harshest desert or wildest Mongolia, Andie advises, develops and leads incredible expeditions to remote and amazing places for a number of organisations.

 

Current projects:

  • Morocco - Anti-Atlas and Sahara Desert - community projects and adventure - completed.

 

Previous projects include:

  • BES Amazon 2017 - Deputy Chief Leader, Manu National Park, Peru

  • BES Amazon 2015 - Chief Leader, Manu National Park, Peru

  • Chesterfield College - Adviser for Rwanda 2015

  • Mission Nepal - Co-ordinator

  • Outlook Expeditions Rwanda 2014 - Chief Leader

  • Outlook Expeditions Mongolia and China 2014 - Chief Leader

  • BES Amazon 2012 - Chief Leader, Pacaya-Samiria NP, Peru

  • BES Amazon 2011 - Deputy Chief Leader, Pacaya-Samiria NP, Peru

  • DYEG / YSES Mongolia 2008 - Chief Leader

  • YSES Grand Canyon 2000 / 2005 - Chief Leader

  • Earthquest Programme - Belize, Svalbard, Australia, Mozambique, Oceanquest - Director of Training

 

The Amazon
Peru

BES Amazon 2015-2017

Working alongside the CREES Foundation to capture scientific data and explore new areas of primary forest in Manu National Reserve in the foothills of the Andes.

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This work involves setting up of science camps, jungle adventure and community projects that support the CREES health and wealth programme. Exped video can be seen here.

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BES Amazon 2011-2012

Working with the local Cocama tribe and reserve scientists to help manage the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve in Loreto Region of Peru.

 

This involved science research within the reserve at two science camps, community projects within San Martin de Tapishca, Nuevo Arica and Bolivar, as well as adventurous journeying through the rainforest by canoe and on foot.

Mongolia

Land of the Big Blue Sky

Whether working with orphans in the capital, Ulaan Bataar, riding the wild horses across the Steppes, linking to the Reindeer herding Tsataan communiy in the Ulaan Taiga, or the Camel sanctuary in the Gobi desert, you will not find a more rewarding experience.

 

Linking to the Mongolian people and living in their gers or tipis (urtz) is a once in a lifetime experience that will not be forgotten.

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Andie has led many expeditions to this land of buddhist and shamanic people, at one with their landscape, environment and animals; outstanding adventures that will enthrall, excite and leave you wanting more, Mongolia is that special place to provide it...the land of the big blue sky.

Grand Canyon

River of life...adventure of a lifetime

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I have visited some amazing places in my lifetime.

As I take in the vistas and minute detail of the places I visit, music sometimes comes to me.

 

I remember in Turkey, as day turned to dusk, Pink Floyd were playing Wish You Were Here in my head, from a natural amphitheatre. The changing colours of the evening sky formed a light show as spectacular as the music and the surroundings. In East Africa, I looked south from Loshoto in the Usumbara Mountains to the Uluguru Mountains where I lived two thousand kilometres away. The vastness of the Southern Masai Mara filled with Wagner. A whole orchestra lay in front of me as I watched the stories unfold.

Now I am in the Canyon. The music comes to me but not from within, from without.

 

The gentle swirling of the great Colorado River as it eddies it’s way downstream. The unmistakable sound of the Canyon Wren as it seems to fall from another cliff top. The deep and solid sound of thunder as it rebounds from rock wall to rock wall of sandstone, limestone and schist. It seems to stay in the Canyon forever echoing – ‘you can’t move me.’

 

The artwork of the sculptor who created this landscape comes alive as it’s maker trickles, falls and tumbles over the walls.

 

The warm wind brings stories of unimaginable feats and unpalatable sadness. The Indians who carved a life out of the Canyons vastness, the canyoneers who lost their lives because of it’s ferociousness.

 

Normally the symbol of everything, the double rainbow bridging the canyon from rim to rim, is overshadowed by it’s presence, strength and beauty.

The blue of the sky never touches the Colorado, except to reflect in it’s silence.

 

I was clothed by the warm waters of the Little Colorado, tossed by Horn Creek Rapids like a toy, refreshed to my soul in Deer Creek, overwhelmed by the floods of Havasupai Canyon and sang to the tune of my companions.

The fish, snake, lizard, mouse, squirrel, eagle and vulture, all play this timeless song in the presence of momentary migrants…

and we are in awe of it’s symphony.

 

I left,

knowing some of me was still there.

I awake,

knowing the river is not far away.

I walk,

with the singing within.

I dream,

to the memory of every note.

 

 

Andie Brazewell

 

Seventeen days after leaving the canyon

 

Rwanda - Land of 1000 Hills.

Rwanda is an incredible country, rich in wildlife, growing tourism, forward thinking without forgetting the past. Easy to get around and with many diverse National Parks, Rwanda makes an ideal destination for a varied experience.

 

Linking with L' Esperance Orphanage on Lake Kivu can be a very rewarding experience. Whether helping with the children, linking to complete a project or spending time with Victor who runs the centre, I am sure you will find it inspirational.

 

In 2013, I led an expedition to explore Rwandan life post genocide, understand the current culture of the country, develop revenue streams for L'Esperance Orphanage and take time to jungle trek through the Nyungwe Rainforest and go on safari through Akagera National Park.

 

I linked Chesterfield College to L'Esperance in 2015 as part of their building and construction course.

 

 

 

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