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WeGotNext amplifies individual stories of adventure and activism from communities that have been underrepresented in outdoor and environmental spaces.

Through our Ambassadorship Program and in-community partnerships, we showcase the full spectrum of the environmental movement.

1,000 MILES TO TUK

For over a decade, Niki Choo dreamed of a big canoe trip—and when she finally meets the right partner, they take on a 1,000+ mile journey from the Pacific to the Arctic testing their endurance, their bond and the limits of what's possible. 

“Its important for the world to see that there’s also a different way to interact within the environment and the landscape. I wanna live in harmony with this thing and not abuse it and I want it to be here for a long time. The land is really important but the people are equally important and that relationship is . . . tender.”

- Niki Choo

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Seeking Judhuri

In SEEKING JUDHURI, Ahmed returns to the mountains of Lebanon with his father, retracing the paths of his childhood to confront a legacy of displacement, family trauma, and cultural distance. What begins as a physical journey becomes a profound act of healing across generations.

Their route follows the Lebanon Mountain Trail, a 600-kilometer journey climbing and descending a staggering 72,000 vertical feet across Lebanon’s mountains, weaving through more than 75 towns and villages. But this trail is more than geography—it’s a bridge between past and present, memory and identity.

“Walking around these Lebanese Mountains at a young age implanted this idea and this perspective in my brain that this is how we reconnect not only with our land, and our heritage, and our roots but with ourselves.”

- Ahmad Hijazi

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Inspired by visual and written artist Roni Horn, Everett sets out on an overland bike expedition route that physically links many of Iceland's major glaciers with arts spaces and coastal communities that have themselves been impacted by the ever-changing socio-economic landscape created by industry and extraction.

I’ve also always felt a visceral connection to the dramatic landscape of Iceland. It is volatile, constantly changing. Growing. Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. I empathize with this heaving earth, the landscape of my own body cracked open and reshaped. There is comfort to be found in seeing the broken earth of my being mirrored in the land around me. To recognize that while the terrain seems hostile, it can also be delicate.

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“People only protect those things they love and you can’t love something unless you inherently identify with that”

Kris Tompkins



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