Freelance Journalist & Editor - www.karenkefauver.com
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Karen Kefauver’s Summary
Karen Kefauver spent a night high in the Andes Mountains with a Peruvian family that spoke Quechua. Seven guinea pigs ran around the dirt-floored kitchen as she sipped mushroom soup and huddled next to the fire for warmth on a freezing October night. She didn't mind the smell of burning alpaca guano. Her hosts offered her the best seat - a tiny, wooden stool covered with alpaca skin...She returned to the town of Ollantaytambo (near Cusco) 48 hours later with a different outlook on life. Read more about her Peru experiences at www.karenkefauver.com.
Karen is a freelance journalist who thrives on off-the-beaten track adventures, like staying with a family in Patacancha, Peru. She is passionate about her explorations and captures her experiences in multimedia format - through words, photos and video.
She has specialized in feature stories on adventure travel and endurance sports since 1996, after she left her editor position at a weekly newspaper in Santa Cruz.
Her feature stories have appeared in dozens of publications including:
The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
(including a cover story)
The San Jose Mercury News
(Outside section and magazine)
Triathlete
Yogi Times
South Bay Accent
Velo News Cycling
She is an expert outdoors writer for the travel website Away.com and contributes to Her Sports, Adventure Travel and Singletrack.
Roadside trapezes, backcountry kayaking, mountain biking, cenote-swimming and other adventure travels are subjects of her stories and digital photos. Her photos have been published with her stories in The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and The San Jose Mercury News, among others.
Based in Santa Cruz, California, Karen enjoys yoga and cross-country mountain biking and cyclocross bike racing.
Contact her with story and or photography assingments or questions: www.karenkefauver.com
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Karen Kefauver’s Interests:
Cyclo-cross bike racing, yoga, mountain bike cross country racing, Banff Mountain Film Festival, travel, ethnic food
