Wallace Watson Award

The Wallace Watson Award is a travel scholarship associated with the University of Oxford. Established in 2001 in memory of a student who died during his studies there, the honour is granted annually to a student or group of graduate or undergraduate students by St. Catherine's College, Oxford.[1] Each winner undertakes an expedition or travel of a challenging nature in a remote region of the world and gives a lecture on his or her experiences.[2]

Winners

2017

  • George Todd & Alexander Langedijk - Lake Malawi: An Adventure From Tip to Toe
  • Katarina Martinovic & Guillermo Pascual Pérez - Revolutionary Cuba: A Path Through its History

2016

  • Angus Young[3] - The Mechanical Nomad: A cycle across the central Asian Steppe
  • William Hartz[3] - Spitsbergen Retraced: In the footsteps of Sandy Irvine

2015

  • Thomas Joy[3] - A Pyrenean Odyssey: The Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea

2014

  • Dylan Lynch & Jack Hampton - A Scandinavian Odyssey: from Finland to Norway by kayak
  • Tom Gaisford - Mountains, Mist and condensed Milk: a trek through Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands

2013

  • Myles Karp - In Search of Big Mike: Central America and the Gros Michel Banana[4]

2012

  • James Black - But It's Only Scotland: A Month in Britain's Little-Know Wilderness and 50 Munros

2011

  • Thomas Mallon - A Poem for Oppenheimer: A Journey Through America's Military Campaigns in Asia

2010

  • Wills Cannell-Smith - 2,284 Miles, 62 Cols, 7 Weeks, 0 Punctures: Vienna to the Atlantic

2009

  • Laura Nellums - "Why do Your Feet Dance When No One Sings?" The Mountain Women of Nepal
  • Tim Motz - Beyond Assam, Before Tibet: Melodies of the Old Frontier

2008

  • Dúnlaith Bird - From Tokyo to Shiretko: Retracing Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan'

2007

  • Witold Czartoryski - West Africa Run: The Hard Way Down… by Motorbike
  • Tim Motz - Central Asian Encounters: Silk Road Splendours to Pamiri Shepherds

2006

  • Rachel Brettell - The Long Journey Home: Mongols, Mountains, Mare’s Milk and More
  • Christian Toennesen - Ice Capades: Mountaineering and Living on a Glacier in East Greenland

2005

  • Sallie Burrough - In Search of Peaks and Porcupines: Kili, Kenya and the Kalahari

2004

  • Peter Hesketh and Daniel Kondziela - Two Men and a Tent
  • Una Galahi - Slowly Down the Ganges

2003

  • Nicholas Green - The Camino de Santiago: A Tale of Two Cycles

2002

  • Helen Prentice - My Travels and Mountaineering

References

  1. ↑ "Undergraduate Awards and Prizes". stcatz.ox.ac.uk website. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Wallace Watson Award". Wallace Watson Website. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "2016 Wallace Watson Award winners announced | www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk". www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  4. ↑ "Wallace Watson Award winner visits EARTH in quest to taste long-lost banana variety". EARTH News. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
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