National Geographic Live's Extreme Planet with photographer Carsten Peter in OMAHA!

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER TO SPEAK, SHOW PICTURES FEBRUARY 10 AT HOLLAND CENTER

From Volcanos To Tornados, Carsten Peter Captures Stunning Images

           Omaha Performing Arts presents National Geographic Live’s Extreme Planetwith photographer Carsten Peter in the Kiewit Hall at the Holland Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, February 10, at 7:30 p.m. He is the first speaker in the 2014/15 Speaker Series. Tickets start at $10, and are available atTicketOmaha.com, 402.345.0606 or at the Ticket Omaha Office inside the Holland Center, 1200 Douglas St.

Peter, a World Press Photo award winner and regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, specializes in going to extremes: Scuba diving in a glacier on Mont Blanc, crossing the Sahara on a camel, caving in Borneo. He is enthusiastically obsessed with devising innovative photographic techniques to capture never-before-seen images from some of the scariest environments on the planet.

            His many adventures include braving toxic caverns and acid waterfalls to shoot within the deepest ice shafts on earth, rappelling into active volcanoes with turbulent lava lakes and superheated thermal caves, and breaking altitude records while flying his motorized paraglider. 

             In addition to his World Press award – for his coverage of tornadoes while storm chasing in the American West – he has received an Emmy Award® for his videography from inside an active volcano in the South Pacific. 

            National Geographic Live’s Extreme Planet with photographer Carsten Peter is at the Holland Center, 1200 Douglas St., February 10, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $10, and are available at TicketOmaha.com, 402.345.0606 or at the Ticket Omaha Office inside the Holland Center, 1200 Douglas St.