Julian Monroe Fisher
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 Julian Monroe Fisher in 2007 on the beach in Swakopmund, Namibia, upon completion of the Colorado African Expedition of 2007
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| Born | February 22, 1955 Greenwood, South Carolina, USA |
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| Occupation | Explorer, Adventurer, Writer |
| Website Julian Monroe Fisher Homepage |
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Julian Monroe Fisher F.R.G.S. (born February 22, 1955) is an explorer and an adventurer. He is a documentary filmmaker, a published author, a Fellow with the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in London and an elected international member Fellow with the Explorers Club in New York City. He is married and the father of two children.
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[edit] Early Life
Julian Monroe Fisher F.R.G.S. is the son of Myrtle Fellers Brooks Fisher and Julian Monroe Fisher, Junior. He was born in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina, USA. He grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina where he attended Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Philosophy in 1978. After a twenty year career in hotel and ski resort management, following the death of his father, Julian decidedly turned to a life of adventure and exploration .
[edit] 'Monroe’s Talkabout The World' Adventures
Between 1996 and 2003 Julian filed reports to the John Boy and Billy Big Show Radio Network based in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. His reports were broadcast ‘live’ bi-weekly from locations around the world under the title ‘Monroe’s Talkabout the World’. In the seven years that the reports were aired, Julian traveled the globe overland on public transport, logging over 345,000 miles. From Tierra Del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay to Bangkok to Shanghai to Ulan Bator to Moscow to Vienna to Greenwood, exploring the world at large.
He interviewed a wide variety of personalities. He tracked down the United Kingdom’s great train robber Ronnie Biggs in Rio de Janeiro, interviewed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare as well as the local journalist Mark Chavanduka of The Standard newspaper. Mark had been tortured by Zimbabwean military troops only days before. Julian also met: Nicaraguan Sandinista revolutionary and President Daniel Ortega who was once referred to by US President Ronald Reagan as the most dangerous person in Latin America; Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman that is now in prison for corruption; Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the son of assassinated editor of La Prensa (Managua) Pedro Chamorro; famed Austrian actionist artist Hermann Nitsch; the Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and many more.
During that period Julian also filed articles for a features column to 'The Index Journal' newspaper in Greenwood, South Carolina. He also wrote and published two books: 'Tales From On The Surface' and 'Tales From On The Surface - And The Road Goes On'.
Julian Fisher was nominated to become an elected member of The Explorers Club in New York City in the year 2000. He was nominated by polar explorer Colonel Norman D. Vaughan of the 1928-29 Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Antarctica Expedition, the first flight over the South Pole. Fisher was nominated to become a Fellow with the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in London in the year 2000 by Nigel Winser. Mr. Winser was then the Deputy Director of the Royal Geographical Society, he later became Executive Director of Earthwatch Institute.
[edit] Present
Between January and March 2007, Julian lead the Colorado African Expedition of 2007. Inspired by the late Paul Louis Hoefler, an explorer and Hollywood filmmaker and author of 'Africa Speaks: A Story of Adventure', the Colorado African Expedition of 2007 traveled overland from the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa, Kenya, to the Atlantic Ocean town of Swakopmund, Namibia. The journey took Julia Fisher and the Canadian Keith Hellyer through the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, down the length of Lake Tanganyika, across Zambia and Namibia. The expedition carried Flag # 89 of the Explorers Club.
In October 2007 a photography exhibit entitled 'Life On Earth' opened at the Zeitbrücke Museum in the village of Gars am Kamp, Austria. The exhibit presented images collected by Julian Fisher during his expeditions around the globe.
From film footage and still photographs gathered during The Colorado African Expedition of 2007, the documentary film 'Primate Questions of Conservation' was produced. Julian Monroe Fisher F.R.G.S. is the co-director, executive producer, cinematographer and script writer of the documentary film. The film focuses upon the plight to conserve and protect a secure habitat for the central African gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda at the expense of the habitat and culture of the Twa (Batwa) pygmies. The two groups of primates, gorillas (great ape) and Batwa pygmies, lived together harmoniously for thousands of years. However, now the Batwa people have been forced off their ancestral lands and are diminishing, along with it, their hunter-gatherer culture. A film by Fisher, Hellyer, Koller and Leonhardt - All Rights Reserved. The film will be released in 2008.
Julian plans to return to the African continent in 2008. He will be trekking with a small team into the remote Ruwenzori Range also known as the Mountains of the Moon (Africa), located on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda to climb Mount Stanley. The 2008 Mount Stanley Expedition will record temperatures at altitude on Rwenzori’s glaciers and trek down the water flows from the glaciers to the Semliki river. The Semliki river feeds Lake Albert and in turn the Nile River. It has been theorized that this is one of the main sources of the Nile, but that has never been proven.
[edit] Expeditions
Monroe's Talkabout the World: 1996 - 2002, around the world, filing weekly reports to the JohnBoy & Billy Radio Network out of Charlotte, N.C.
From the Pacific to the Atlantic: 2001, traveling across Nicaragua in the footsteps of Mark Twain.
The Colorado African Expedition: 2007, across Africa from the Indian Ocean (Mombasa,Kenya) to the Atlantic (Swakopmund, Namibia), gathering material for the documentary film 'Primate Questions of Conservation'.
Countries visited in chronological order:
[edit] References
'Honduras This Week' Newspaper Article
Explorer's Club Western European Chapter
Explorers Club Flag #89 Report
[edit] External Links
The Colorado African Expedition 2007
The Mount Stanley Expedition 2008
