Press Releases & Clips
I've had a lot of fun reading your Lonely Planet work and website and really admire what the two of you have been doing over your whole lives. S. Bradley, Australia, February 2008Thanks for the inspirational website. I hoped to travel into Wakhan in 1973 but the King was deposed and that was that; we were repeatedly turned back. Thirty-five years later and retired, I am inspired by your website to thinking about it again…
Mark, UK, October 2007
I have read your informative and very interesting report from August 2004. Congratulations on a fine achievement and in particular on having the confidence to proceed beyond the ice cave area to the Dilisang Pass, when you remained uncertain exactly where it was.
Bill, Surrey, UK, March 2007
Your website is great - you have led amazing lives!
Kristin, Ohio, March 2007
I visited your website, which is very useful for tourists in general and the Wakhis in particular. The Wakhi educated younger generation is appreciative and indebted for your intellectual contributions to pay attention to this race and their culture.
Ahmed Jami Sakhi, Gilgit, Pakistan, February 2007
I visited your web site and I found it very interesting, my best compliments for your trips and for the pictures. Reading your report about the traverse from Wakhan to [Pakistan] made me want to visit Wakhan and cross Irshad Uween.
Pietro, Italy, June 2006
What a nice web site you have! And what an example you can be for a young 20-year-old traveller like me! There is nothing more important in life than having the courage to live our dream … Wow!
Olivier, Montréal, April 2006
Shipton Tilman Grants
2004 Mock & O'Neil Wakhan Expedition
Read the expedition report or read it on W.L. Gore's Shipton/Tilman Adventure Diaries.
- W.L. Gore & Associates
- Outdoor Industry Association
- Climbing.com
- Expedition News
- University of California, Santa Cruz Currents
2000 Mock & O'Neil Oprang Expedition
Read the expedition report.
Lonely Planet Publications
- 'Til Travel Do Us Part, Budget Travel magazine Feburary 2008 issue
- Lonely Planet
- University of California, Santa Cruz Currents
Lonely Planet's Grand Canyon National Park Guidebook
- Roadtrip America's book review says it's "the best guide we have ever seen about the Grand Canyon."
Lonely Planet's Hiking in the Sierra Nevada Guidebook
Winner of 2002 National Outdoor Book Award
"Hiking in the Sierra Nevada is a user friendly, rock-solid guidebook with clear writing, useful topographic maps, inviting photos and it's conveniently sized to fit in the side pocket of your pack."
University of California, Santa Cruz
- John Mock awarded grant to document traditions in Afghanistan (2007-2009).
- John Mock elected to Executive Council of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (2007-2011).
- John Mock elected to Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (2007-2010).
- UCSC Receives $75,000 Gift to Fund Hindi/Urdu Language Program, University of California, Santa Cruz Currents, 5/15/2006
- "Inside Pakistan" presented at a symposium titled "The Current Crisis: Focus on South Asia," sponsored by the South Asian Studies Initiative, the Center for Global International & Regional Studies, and the Office of the Chancellor, University of California at Santa Cruz, November 8, 2001.
Wildlife Conservation in Central Asia & South Asia
- Read (page 1 of 2, and page 2 of 2) the March 6, 2007 New York Times article "Preserving land and Wildlife, to Restore the Afghan Identity" about the Wildlife Conservation Society's Afghanistan Biodiversity Project whose Community Conservation component in Wakhan is managed by John Mock.
- IUCN SSC Caprinae Specialist Group Blue sheep in Pakistan, 2000
