Thanks for stopping by! My name is George Kashouh, and I have some serious passions for travel and adventure. For more than 20 years, I’ve been doing my best to climb the highest peak on each continent as well as visit every country in the world. It’s a slow process, but I’ve never looked back on my goal, and each year I find myself going on a new adventure.
I do my best to share my travels through my own experiences and photos. My website has more than 9,000 photos taken from places all over the world, but due to time constraints, parts of the site are still behind in being modernized. It’s a work in progress and might take me a few more years to catch up. To put things in perspective, if you read a single page a day on my site, it would take you nearly two years to read everything!
I started my adventures when I was young, with a trip to Costa Rica followed by Peru a year later. Instead of satisfying me, those trips only made me want to see and do more in life.
Immediately after graduating high school, I essentially used what was my life savings at the time to travel to Africa and climb Kilimanjaro, beginning my quest to climb the highest mountain on every continent. After five years in the Marines, I once again used most of my life savings to travel around the world, completing one of my first major travel goals: visiting all seven continents.
More than 20 years later, I’ve traveled to over 100 countries and climbed six of the Seven Summits, including
Mt. Everest.
About My Mission
For most of my life, I’ve dreamed of some unique adventure of a lifetime or special challenge I could overcome. It seemed that nearly everything in the world had already been done thousands of times over. There were no new countries or uncharted islands left to discover, the highest mountains had all been climbed, and the first people to reach the North and South Poles had done so more than a century ago.
One day in November 2006, while I was hiking in Ecuador, I realized just how much traveling had become my passion. Ecuador was amazing, but it was only one place in a much larger world. Traveling to every country on Earth wasn’t a new idea, yet it still appealed to me.
It was clearly a lifelong goal and, at first, seemed overwhelming. Even visiting a new country every few months would take decades. There were also the obvious challenges of money, time away from work, remote destinations, war-torn regions, and the effect constant travel could have on my personal life.
Despite all of that, I suddenly felt like this was something I had to pursue. I also wanted to take the goal a step further: not simply crossing borders to say I had been somewhere, but visiting the most interesting places I could in each country, climbing the highest mountains on every continent, and documenting the journey through my photographs and stories.
Since returning from Ecuador in 2006, I’ve never given up on that goal.
About Photography
During my early travels, I was fairly indifferent to photography and figured a few random shots from a wind-up camera would do the job. That worked for a few years, but as I kept coming home and telling family and friends, “It’s so much more amazing in person,” I finally invested in a real camera.
Every photo on this website was taken by me with no exceptions—unless, of course, I’m actually in the photo myself.
I’ve stuck with Nikon for more than a decade and currently shoot with a Nikon D800, while occasionally using a GoPro for video. As I became more dedicated to photography, my photos began appearing in advertisements, textbooks, television, and even the Smithsonian.
I’ve listed some of my photographs for sale as a way to help fund future adventures.
Click here to see prints that are available.
Nearly all of my photographs are available. If you would like more information, contact me at
George@travelthewholeworld.com.
Website Goals
There was a time when I tried to actively market this website to help fund goals such as returning to Antarctica. As it turns out, doing that seriously requires almost daily updates and far more time than I have.
I’ve certainly enjoyed the people I’ve met and the coverage the site has received, and I’ll continue looking forward to whatever comes next. Ultimately, though, Travel The Whole World has always been something I do because I enjoy it—and I intend to keep it that way.
