ABOUT US
ABOUT US
SPECIALIZING IN ADVENTURE TRAVEL
CARDOZO: Worked eight years for major
metropolitan newspapers; has done freelance
travel and outdoors articles and photography
since 1974.
HIRSCH: Worked at a variety of research
and writing jobs in government and private
industry and has been doing freelance articles
since 1982.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Society of American Travel Writers, Travel
Journalists' Guild, North American Snowsports
Journalists Assn., NW Outdoor Writers' Assn.
AWARDS
Lowell Thomas awards: 1st (foreign magazine
story) 1988, 1st (adventure travel) 1995,
2nd (ecotourism) 1995, 1st (self illustrated)
1996, 3rd (cultural tourism) 1996, 3rd (adventure
travel) 1997; 25+ awards in SATW photo and
writing contests; various NOWA newspaper
and magazine awards 1988 - 2003; Canada's
Northern Lights awards 1998 - 2003; several
awards from Society of Professional Journalists.
PUBLISHED IN:
MAGAZINES: Up Here, Sport Diver,
Group Travel Leader, Doctors Review, Physicians
Money Digest, Diver (UK), Studio Classroom
(Taiwan), Cathay Pacific Discovery and Dragonair's
Silk Road (Hong Kong), Hemispheres and The
Peak (Singapore).
NEWSPAPERS: New York Post, Chicago
Tribune, Daily Herald, Portland Oregonian,
Spokane Spokesman Review, Puget Sound Business
Journal, Kansas City Star, Dallas Morning
News, St. Petersburg Times, Canwest newspapers.
Travel assignments have included: Sea
kayaking in Irian Jaya; snorkeling with beluga
whales in northern Canada; cruising the Bering
Sea to the Russian Far East; scuba diving
in Antarctica; skiing in North and South
America, Europe and India; scuba diving in
Florida, the Pacific Northwest, the Caribbean,
the South Pacific and under ice in the Canadian
high arctic; bicycling in Tahiti; island
hopping in Greece; dogsled camping in Alaska;
camping among Polar Bears in Canada; thrill
sports in New Zealand; visiting baby seals
off Canada; traveling Inner Mongolia; snowmobiling
in Labrador; living with Eskimos in igloos
in the Canadian arctic plus many other far
north stories in summer and winter.
Our series of stories on Alaska has been
printed by more than two dozen publications.
Various trips to China have appeared
in over 20 publications. Our article
on Antarctic Tourism was chosen by Grolier
Inc. to appear in its Yearbook of Science.
Other Antarctic stories have appeared
15 times.
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