Jere van dyk biography of christopher

Jere Van Dyk is a journalist and author who has focused much of his writing on far-away, mostly dangerous places, particularly Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In college, he was on the U.S.

Pan American Track and Field Team, in the 800 meters.

Jere van dyk biography of christopher

In 1970, while in the U.S. Army, he won the world military track and field championships in the 1500 meters, and later was on the U.S. National Team and carried the American flag in the closing ceremonies of the U.S. vs. Russia Track and Field Meet in Leningrad, today St.

Petersburg, during the Cold War. In 1972, he was a finalist in the 1500 meters in the U.S. Olympic Trials.

In the early 1980s, he lived, as a correspondent for The New York Times, with the Mujahideen (holy warriors) in Afghanistan as they fought against the Soviet Red Army, an experience that was recapped in his Pulitzer Prize-nominated articles.

In 1987, National Geographic Magazine asked him to travel the length of the Brahmaputra River and to find its source. H