Josef Urban

Biography

Josef Urban is a graduate of Charles University, Faculty of Science, where he studied engineering geology and hydrogeology. The former national white-water kayak team member began writing after finishing the "Czech Rafting"an exploratory project mapping the deepest canyons on earth. The successful travelog, The Deepest Valley of the World, came into being in 1998. In the same year, Urban's first authorial film The Testament was made, which won one of the main awards at the IFF of Mountaineering …