Adventurer, explorer, writer, radio correspondent and filmmaker, Bernice Notenboom used to work 60 hours a week for one of the world's leading software corporations. In 1995, she abandoned the stress of her corporate career to create Moki Treks ( mokitreks.com ), a travel company that aims to raise awareness of indigenous cultures. Moki Treks began in the Southwest, employing Native Americans as travel guides and cultural emissaries, and has since expanded to include the aboriginal cultures of Australia and Canada. Moki Treks won the prestigious World Legacy Award in 2004.

Bernice wrote her first story for National Geographic Traveler in 2001 about a camel voyage with Bedouins in Saudi Arabia. "I was ecstatic to ride camels with this nomadic tribe. It was inspiring to be in a culture that doesn't really need possessions for survival or comfort, but definitely needs to be in close relationship with the land, the animals, and the weather in order to survive" says Bernice.

Bernice's passion to explore nomadic tribes in remote places in the world, has brought her to visit 70 countries and numerable indigenous cultures in the most far-flung places in the world. She traveled the Empty Quarter searching for the Queen of Sheba, migrated with the Reindeer People of Mongolia, learned to herd camels in Pakistan, attended a coming of age ceremony in Ethiopia, and descended in a Maelstrom. Bernice participated in and lead numerous climbing and ski expeditions including to the Himalayas, Greenland, Baffin Island, the Alps, and New Zealand. Her adventures have appeared in the book, "A women alone-travel tales from around the world," in National Geographic; she is contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Natural Health magazine, Washington Post, and on the National Geographic Web. In 2006 she was runner up in two categories for "Arabian Nights" for the North American Travel Journalists Awards.

Bernice has produced over 25 radio documentaries for NPR's Savvy Traveler, Living On Earth, Marketplace, and All things Considered. She has appeared on National Geographic Today show, BBC, Explorer and CNN and you can listen to her experiences on I-tunes National Geographic World Talk. Bernice is a talent and sponsored athlete for Sierra Designs, Patagonia, Deuter Packs, Mammut, Black Diamond and NRS.

Currently, Bernice is preparing a ski-expedition to the coldest place in the world, Siberia. She is going to ski the journey of Kate Marsden who in 1891 traveled solo in Siberia to find a herb - guarded by Yakut shamans to cure leprosy. In 1892 Kate published the book On Horseback to Outcast Siberia. In April Bernice will ski to the North Pole and in December to the South Pole. If not traveling, Bernice lives in Fernie, Canada where she is currently working on her book.