Alpacka Raft’s blog featured photographer Pete McBride’s new book, The Colorado River: Chasing Water. Published by Rizzoli in 2024, it draws together two decades of following the Colorado River, combining photography, personal narrative, and environmental advocacy.
What’s interesting here is that the book isn’t about a packraft at all — it’s about the Colorado River as a watershed in its own right. This is a book that points readers toward the river as a water resource, not a river defined by the gear used to run it.
20 Years, 1,500 Miles
McBride is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker from Colorado. After years working with National Geographic, he spent four years documenting 1,500 miles of the Colorado River, and has covered stories in more than 75 countries.
750 Miles on Foot Through the Grand Canyon
In 2016, McBride and writer Kevin Fedarko walked 750 miles through the Grand Canyon, earning McBride a spot as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. His book Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim won a National Outdoor Book Award, and Seeing Silence was named one of the best photo books of 2021 by Smithsonian magazine. His work documenting the Ganges River also earned him the title of Freshwater Hero from the National Geographic Society.
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