Congratulations to Trip Jennings – and Thank You to All of the AMK Fans that Voted for Him! AMK is proud to support Trip and his team on their next expedition.  Check out the Press Release below ….

For Immediate Release:
PRESS RELEASE
Nov. 23, 2009

Explorer Trip Jennings Wins National Geographic Channel Grant to Stop Record Levels of Elephant Poaching

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the National Geographic Channel named Explorer Trip Jennings the winner of their Expedition Granted contest and awarded him a $10,000 grant to help save elephants from illegal poaching in Africa.

Check out the letter below from Trip Jennings, an AMK sponsored athlete and  National Geographic Young Explorer.  Trip needs votes in order to be the recipient of a Nat Geo grant that will help fund an expedition to the Democratic Republic of Congo to collect elephant DNA that can help protect these animals from the ivory trade.  Trip is an amazing filmmaker, explorer and also just happens to be a great guy. Please support him by voting – plus you area entered to win an adventure of your own!

Letter From Trip:
Hello friends,

AMK Athletes Trip Jennings and the Epicocity Project crew will be featured on the National Geographic Channel on Feb 10th at 7pm and 10pm. The show “Monster Fish of the Congo” features their Congo River expedition from last summer – the first descent of the Lower Congo Rapids.  Check them out!

The show documents the adventure and scientific elements of the first descent of the Lower Congo Rapids and features Trip and friends heavily.

What would more water than the Mississippi at flood, raging between cliffs only 1000 feet apart look like? What would paddling huge whitewater in a country at war with only a few hundred miles of paved road feel like?