Posted By Dan Travers on October 23, 2011
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.”
Ernest Shackleton ran this ad in 1914 to recruit men for his expedition to the Antarctic. We, too, are explorers who are still willing to take the adventure in order to make discoveries that will change our world forever. What about you?
The Rivers Ran East Team is recruiting indviduals who have read Leonard Clark’s book and still want to take an adventure in Spetember of 2013 that might just change you life.
Contact Dan and Tammy at tammy@crookedtrails.com and dtravers@seanet.com
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Posted By Dan Travers on December 3, 2010
As we work on our next grant, plan the next visit and research the details in the book, an interesting this is happening. We are starting to receive emails from people related to the story in different ways, all asking for help connecting to others we are in touch with. Relatives of Leonard Clark’s friends, book publishers, gold prospectors and so forth. We appear to have created a small internet hub that brings together far flung pieces of Leonard Clark’s world.
Once we complete our latest grant application, which involves a fun video skit, we’ll be back at work on the following:
-Pinpointing the three most viable sites to look for Spanish ruins and the evidence of Clark’s passage.
-creating a fly-over in Google Earth so website visitors can see exactly where this is all happening.
-researching people mentioned in the book to see who may have descendants that might provide more information.
-trying to answer some of our biggest questions:
Where are Clark’s diaries?
Where is the fabled leather map he used to discover the ruins?
Where did Clark learn all his statistics about the Spanish gold operations along the Maranon River?
Why does it take us so long to make any measurable progress on this project?
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Posted By Tammy on September 15, 2010
“El Dorado (Land of the Golden Man) is a fabulous country of immeasurable treasure…..” thus wrote home the Imperial Spaniards of Castile and Leon. Yet, in spite of all the gold pilfered from Peru (estimated to be in the billions) the Spaniards became obsessed with finding the source where all the gold originated—EL Dorado. And many a man followed in their footsteps……
Sir Walter Raleigh, Ordaz, emissary of Cortes, Von Huten, Orellana, Quesada, Coronado, Montejo, Grijalva, Cabeza de Vaca and Leonard Clark!
Fueled by his belief that the Atauhuallpa (Inca Emperor when the Spanish invaded Peru), himself, the incarnation of the Sun, was the owner of El Dorado, Clark set out for Northern Peru.
And like Clark before us “There, too, I must and will search.” As Dan and I head out to Peru next year our quest is not to find the gold but to find what Clark described in his book as the foundations of these 7 ancient cities.
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Posted By Dan Travers on August 17, 2010
Welcome to our website, where the continuation of our crazy adventure in the jungles of Peru will take shape. We will soon… (“soon” as in Geologically speaking)…. be adding more team pictures, a Map link, and if we’re lucky, maybe even a cool Google Satellite Map Flyover! So stay tuned and let us know if you want to be emailed when we update this website with further progress. To catch up on what we’ve been working on so far, read on down below here, starting from the bottom. Send us your comments and if appropriate, we’ll publish them here!
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Posted By Dan Travers on June 22, 2010
Today we are proud to announce
that the Timmissartok Foundation has approved our project for funding. They’ve also agreed to help market the project. In addition, we are in the middle of negotiations with an equipment sponsor and others who’ve expressed interest in supporting our adventure. Thanks to all who have helped us out so far.
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Posted By Tammy on June 22, 2010
I feel another adven
ture brewing. Melinda Clark, Leonard Clark’s daughter, informed us that the Venezuelan newspapers reported that her father was buried in the “cemetery of San Pedro de Las Bocas, a small government post on the edge of the jungle” after a rafting accident during a mining expedition. She adds that no one has confirmed this. Anyone up for an expedition to Venezuela? This could be another search for more foundations lost in the jungle.
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Posted By Dan Travers on June 3, 2010
It takes about the same amount of time to research the history of an obscure culture as it does to figure out how to install a “widget” in this website. We are wasting too much valuable time doing this. Its time to go live…. even if it means a boring website. Its time to get back to work on Clark’s legacy, the mysterious Aguarunas Indians, the legends of El Dorado and the search for ruins in the Amazon!
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Posted By Dan Travers on May 4, 2010
We have been in contact with Leonard Clark’s niece and his 2 nephews. They told us no one else has really done much research on this incredible adventure but are eager to help us on our quest to return and learn more. Although they were all quite young when he died, they do remember hanging out in his California log cabin listening to his tales of his adventures around the world. One of his nephews told us they had some items of Clark’s in their attic. We are crossing our fingers that the stash contains his journals, the map and/or other information that Clark may have kept about his journey in the Amazon.
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Posted By Dan Travers on March 30, 2010
In 1947, an OSS agent, US Army Col. Leonard Clark, bought a secret map from the descendants of the sole surviving soldier of an Amazonian army outpost massacre by Jivaro Indians almost 500 years ago. This map identified seven “Cities of Gold” in the northern Amazon jungle that Clark believed to be the legendary “El Dorado”.
Clark set out from Lima with a Peruvian university student as his jungle guide and $1000 in cash to emerge 9 months later from the northern Andes with $16,000 in gold strapped to the back of a mule. However, some of his friends were now dead and he had barely been lucky and resourceful enough to escape his own demise from lethal snakes, jaguars, boiling rapids and arrows from the legendary Campa slvetraders and Aguarunas headshrinkers that inhabited the upper Maranon River valley.
Nearly sixty years have passed since his legendary journey into the uncharted Amazon, but has anyone really investigated his findings? Was he telling the truth about the gold and the hostile conditions he encountered? What really did he find?
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Equally at home in Peru, the mountains, or Seattle, Washington, Tammy Leland has spent the last 18 years exploring every nook and cranny of Peru’s Amazon, its Andes mountains, Southern desert and ancient history. Earning a reputation as a passionate adventurer and explorer, Tammy had wandered over 5 continents, spending her time learning from different indigenous cultures, gleaning important lessons about sustainable tourism and now offers practical guidance as a tourism consultant and environmental educator.
Living on the edge explorer, traveler and climber, Dan Travers has traversed, climbed, scaled, scrambled, skied, trudged, trekked, hiked, biked and kayaked in 6 different continents and over 40 countries. Wilderness First Responder trained and a jungle veteran, lacrosse player, beer drinker, trekker and traveler, diver and climber, but not dancer nor singer. "I want to experience all I can, because if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space."
