CSM(R) Eric Fies, FRGS - Founder and President
Eric is a retired United States Army Command Sergeant Major with over 22 years of extensive field leadership experience culminating in promotion to the highest Noncommissioned Officer rank possible. Eric is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of The Explorers Club: humanity’s two most renowned exploring organizations. He and his wife, Amber, own North Star Adventure Consulting, aimed at assisting expeditions in their planning, organization, and preparation and helping individuals escape traditional tour groups to explore the globe independently, safely, and responsibly. They are fervent conservationists, appalled by the continual destruction of our natural world and needless killing of so many magnificent species. Eric collaborated with President Obama’s Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking and INTERPOL’s Environmental Security Unit, and has shared his concepts for strategic global wildlife conservation and the protection of endangered species with the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Panthera, World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic, Freeland Foundation, and African Wildlife Foundation.
Eric is a retired United States Army Command Sergeant Major with over 22 years of extensive field leadership experience culminating in promotion to the highest Noncommissioned Officer rank possible. Eric is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Member of The Explorers Club: humanity’s two most renowned exploring organizations. He and his wife, Amber, own North Star Adventure Consulting, aimed at assisting expeditions in their planning, organization, and preparation and helping individuals escape traditional tour groups to explore the globe independently, safely, and responsibly. They are fervent conservationists, appalled by the continual destruction of our natural world and needless killing of so many magnificent species. Eric collaborated with President Obama’s Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking and INTERPOL’s Environmental Security Unit, and has shared his concepts for strategic global wildlife conservation and the protection of endangered species with the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Panthera, World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic, Freeland Foundation, and African Wildlife Foundation.
Amber Fies - Co-Founder and Photographer
Amber is the co-founder of North Star Adventure Consulting, a talented photographer, avid backcountry adventurer, and passionate conservationist. She attended photography workshops with National Geographic and had her portfolio reviewed by one of the photography editors for National Geographic Magazine. Amber possesses a tremendous backcountry resume and has backpacked hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Trail, trekked through Glacier National Park, explored above the Arctic Circle on the Lofoten Archipelago of Norway, snowshoed through the John Muir Wilderness in a multi-day Winter trek, and braved the still smoldering lava fields of Eyjafjallajökull volcano caldera in Iceland. Her love of wildlife and lifelong dedication to stewardship of our natural world led her to support a variety of environmental causes, including her current work with Resolute. In addition to her considerable outdoor resume, Amber is an accomplished Equestrian, upper level Dressage rider and trainer, and the owner of Elite Power Stables in Purcellville, Virginia.
Amber is the co-founder of North Star Adventure Consulting, a talented photographer, avid backcountry adventurer, and passionate conservationist. She attended photography workshops with National Geographic and had her portfolio reviewed by one of the photography editors for National Geographic Magazine. Amber possesses a tremendous backcountry resume and has backpacked hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Trail, trekked through Glacier National Park, explored above the Arctic Circle on the Lofoten Archipelago of Norway, snowshoed through the John Muir Wilderness in a multi-day Winter trek, and braved the still smoldering lava fields of Eyjafjallajökull volcano caldera in Iceland. Her love of wildlife and lifelong dedication to stewardship of our natural world led her to support a variety of environmental causes, including her current work with Resolute. In addition to her considerable outdoor resume, Amber is an accomplished Equestrian, upper level Dressage rider and trainer, and the owner of Elite Power Stables in Purcellville, Virginia.