Adventurers Club Of Los Angeles

Journey deep into the dense jungles of Siberut Island with Emily Harriss as she recounts her expedition to live among the Mentawai people of West Sumatra, one of Indonesia’s most remote Indigenous communities. Her talk explores the responsibility that comes with documenting remote cultures as a traveler, creator, and anthropology student.

Deep in the mountains of Yunnan Province near the Myanmar border lies Wengding, widely recognized as China’s last primitive tribe. In early 2026, seasoned explorer and 2019 Adventurer of the Year Paul Wong set out to document this isolated enclave.

During a nomadic upbringing, Gene Rogers had opportunities to explore several major caves and tunnel systems across America as a spelunker- an amateur cave explorer.