Inspired by Chris Bonnington’s Quest for Adventure, a regular Canadian kid became an Adventurer.
Kirkby hooked up with Jamie Clarke, Calgary’s most famous adventurer for:
His greatest claim to fame (or greatest sufferfest) was what he called The Grande Cirque — the first circumnavigation of British Columbia’s southern Coast Range.
His best destination so far — the Mergui Archipelago of Burma, off-limits to everyone for the past 50 years.