Ben Kozel (born 1973) is an adventurer, author, film maker and teacher, born in

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

.Ben Kozel's website
/ref> With friends Colin Angus and Scott Borthwick of South Africa, Kozel journeyed the length of the Amazon River in 1999–2000. In 2001, Kozel, Colin Angus, and Remy Quinter became the first team to travel the entire length of the

Yenisey River The Yenisey or Yenisei ( ; , ) is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean. Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course through Lake Baikal and the Krasnoyarsk Dam b ...

Publications

*''Three Men in a Raft'', 2002, *''Five Months in a Leaky Boat'', 2003,

Film career

Kozel's films are co-produced for

National Geographic ''National Geographic'' (formerly ''The National Geographic Magazine'', sometimes branded as ''Nat Geo'') is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. The magazine was founded in 1888 as a scholarly journal, nine ...

Television. They have collectively won ten awards including Best Adventure Film at

Mountainfilm in Telluride Mountainfilm is a documentary film festival that showcases nonfiction stories about environmental, cultural, climbing, political and social justice issues in Telluride, Colorado. It has been held every Memorial Day weekend since 1979. In 2000, M ...

References

Living people Australian travel writers Australian documentary filmmakers Australian explorers 1973 births {{australia-writer-stub