Kira Salak

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kira Salak
Occupation	Explorer
Date Of Birth	Sep 4, 1971(1971-09-04)
Age	53
Birthplace	Illinois
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Virgo

Kira Salak Biography

Kira Salak is one of the most popular and richest Explorer who was born on September 4, 1971 in Illinois, Illinois, United States. Reputed National Geographic journalist who wrote travelogues about New Guinea.

David Livingstone, who was among the first Europeans to explore Africa, also published popular travelogues.

Kira Salak (born September 4, 1971) is an American writer, adventurer, and journalist known for her travels in Mali and Papua New Guinea. She has written two books of nonfiction and a book of fiction based on her travels and is a contributing editor at National Geographic magazine.

Salak now writes regularly for National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic, and other magazines about her travels to places which include Iran, Rwanda, Libya, Burma, Borneo, Uganda and Peru. In 2003, she convinced some Ukrainian gun-runners to fly her to the Democratic Republic of the Congo so she could report on the war. Salak stayed in the Congolese town of Bunia, which was taken over by child soldiers, an experience she described as “an endless stream of the worst, most inconceivable acts of inhumanity”. She received a PEN literary award for her article about that experience. Her articles have also appeared in publications that include the New York Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, The Washington Post, and Backpacker, and her work has appeared five times in Best American Travel Writing. Her fiction was selected for Best New American Voices (judged by Charles Baxter). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various anthologies, including Adrenaline 2002: The Year’s Best Stories of Adventure and Survival, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction.

Her parents sent her off to boarding school when she was 14, which may have instilled in her the streak of self-reliance that characterizes her life path.

Kira Salak Net Worth

Kira Salak is one of the richest Explorer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kira Salak 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She earned a Ph.D. in English, specializing in travel writing.

In the middle of graduate school, she decided to spend a year backpacking around Papua New Guinea, which became the basis of her first book.

Kira Salak was born on September 4, 1971 in a western suburb of Chicago. Her mother was a waitress and her father repaired mainframe computers. When Salak was 13, her parents sent her to Wayland Academy, a boarding school in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, where she participated in cross-country activities and set a state level track record when she was 14. Though she began training for National and Olympic trials, she dropped out of the sport and decided to travel instead. Kira Salak received her B.F.A. in writing, literature and publishing from Emerson College. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing (fiction) from the University of Arizona. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Missouri, with a PhD in English; her two areas of specialization were 20th century American prose literature and travel literature.

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Facts & Trivia

Kira Ranked on the list of most popular Explorer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kira Salak celebrates birthday on September 4 of every year.

Why is Kira Salak famous?

Accomplishments. Kira Salak is described by the National Geographic Society’s website as being the “ first documented person to kayak solo 966 kilometres (600 mi) down the Niger river ” and by the New York Times as “a real-life Lara Croft”.

Where did Kira Salak go?

Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone 600 miles on the Niger River of Mali to Timbuktu , retracing the fatal journey of the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park.