Kristin Gates

Kristin Gates is a filmmaker who uses documentary film to tell stories that pertain to environmental and human rights issues.  Her most recent work has been with the World Land Trust in Kenya and Mexico, the Wild Tomorrow Fund in South Africa, and around the world on a pole to pole expedition with the Citizen of the World Team.   Much of her documentary work has also focused on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.     

Kristin has lived in Alaska for the last ten years and has become an expert in expedition travel.  She has traveled hundreds of miles by dog team across the Arctic and Subarctic.  She is best known for becoming the first known woman to trek solo across Alaska's Arctic on a 1,000-mile route through the Brooks Range that she mapped out herself.  She then followed up her Arctic Refuge thru-hike by kayaking 2,000 miles down the Yukon River from the Chilkoot Trail to the Bering Sea.    She was also the youngest woman to complete thru-hiking's 7,000+ mile Triple Crown.  She has completed numerous other thru-hikes in the US, Sweden, and Greenland.