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Tristan Gooley (born 1973) is a British writer on natural navigation. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Gooley was born in 1973; his father is Sir Michael Gooley, the founder of Trailfinders, who was knighted in 2021 for services to business and charity. [6]
Gooley has a BA in history and politics (1996) from Newcastle University. [7] [8] He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro while in his teens, [2] and, aged 19, he spent three days lost on the slopes of Gunung Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia. [9]
Gooley has walked with the Dayak in Borneo, [10] and in 2009 studied and practiced natural navigation methods with the Tuareg in the Libyan Sahara. [11] In 2012 he led a short-handed small boat voyage, from the Orkney Islands into the Arctic Circle, to test Viking methods and determine whether nature can help a navigator estimate their distance from land. [12] He has walked from Glasgow to London and parachuted off a building in Australia. After years of extreme journeys, aged 36 he turned towards smaller journeys and studying nature. [13]
In 2008, he became the second person, after Steve Fossett (1944-2007), to have both sailed solo and flown solo across the Atlantic; as of 2023 [update], he is the only living person to have done so. [14] [15]
Gooley specialises in interpreting nature's signs, [16] and has been referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Nature". [17] [18]
He has identified a type of path, which has been recognised by the Royal Institute of Navigation. The "smile path" is a ( smile-shaped) curve, formed when walkers avoid an obstacle or, during Covid, seek to preserve safe distance from other people. [19] [20]
Gooley has written for the New York Times, the Sunday Times, the Wall Street Journal and the BBC. [21] He is the author of books [22] which have been translated into 19 languages, [23] and have been referenced by artists including David Hockney. [24]
Gooley is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and of the Royal Geographical Society. [14]
In 2020 was awarded the Harold Spencer-Jones Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of Navigation in recognition of an outstanding contribution to navigation. [25]
Gooley is married to Sophie and they have two sons. They live in Eartham, West Sussex. [3]
Gooley is vice-chairman of Trailfinders, the travel agency founded in 1970 by his father. [21]
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Tristan Gooley (born 1973) is a British writer on natural navigation. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Gooley was born in 1973; his father is Sir Michael Gooley, the founder of Trailfinders, who was knighted in 2021 for services to business and charity. [6]
Gooley has a BA in history and politics (1996) from Newcastle University. [7] [8] He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro while in his teens, [2] and, aged 19, he spent three days lost on the slopes of Gunung Rinjani, an active volcano in Indonesia. [9]
Gooley has walked with the Dayak in Borneo, [10] and in 2009 studied and practiced natural navigation methods with the Tuareg in the Libyan Sahara. [11] In 2012 he led a short-handed small boat voyage, from the Orkney Islands into the Arctic Circle, to test Viking methods and determine whether nature can help a navigator estimate their distance from land. [12] He has walked from Glasgow to London and parachuted off a building in Australia. After years of extreme journeys, aged 36 he turned towards smaller journeys and studying nature. [13]
In 2008, he became the second person, after Steve Fossett (1944-2007), to have both sailed solo and flown solo across the Atlantic; as of 2023 [update], he is the only living person to have done so. [14] [15]
Gooley specialises in interpreting nature's signs, [16] and has been referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Nature". [17] [18]
He has identified a type of path, which has been recognised by the Royal Institute of Navigation. The "smile path" is a ( smile-shaped) curve, formed when walkers avoid an obstacle or, during Covid, seek to preserve safe distance from other people. [19] [20]
Gooley has written for the New York Times, the Sunday Times, the Wall Street Journal and the BBC. [21] He is the author of books [22] which have been translated into 19 languages, [23] and have been referenced by artists including David Hockney. [24]
Gooley is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and of the Royal Geographical Society. [14]
In 2020 was awarded the Harold Spencer-Jones Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of Navigation in recognition of an outstanding contribution to navigation. [25]
Gooley is married to Sophie and they have two sons. They live in Eartham, West Sussex. [3]
Gooley is vice-chairman of Trailfinders, the travel agency founded in 1970 by his father. [21]
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