A Silent Rebellion is the latest chapter of the Project Zero Earth expedition led by Australian adventurers Dr. Geoff Wilson and his son Kitalé Wilson—a multi-year odyssey to the extremities of the planet in support of climate awareness.
A Silent Rebellion captures a horse-powered north-south crossing of Iceland—a journey marked by extreme weather, epic landscapes and the undeniable evidence of a warming planet. It is the fourth expedition Kitalé has undertaken alongside his father, reflecting their shared dedication to Earth’s future.
Everyone has seen the stats and doom-scrolled the headlines. But numbers and stats don’t stomp the tundra beneath your boots or burn your cheeks with glacier-chilled wind. That’s where Geoff and Kitalé Wilson come in. Their bold, remote routes and gritty, wide-reaching footage hit you like frostbite. These adventurers aren’t just reporting on climate change. They’re living through the crux of it, one perspective-shifting story at a time.
“AS A YOUNG PERSON YOU’RE COGNITIVELY AWARE CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING. WE’VE NEVER KNOWN ANY DIFFERENT. BUT DAD HAS. HE’S SEEN WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEFORE. KNOWING A ONCE MIGHTY GLACIER HAS BEEN REDUCED TO SUCH FRAGILITY IN JUST A FRACTION OF HIS LIFETIME – THAT REALLY AFFECTS YOU.” –Kitalé Wilson
The father and son started the way travellers of yore once did—on horseback—moving slowly through the mossy folds and hidden gullies of northern Iceland, just inside the Arctic Circle. Geoff and Kitalé rode deep into a country where pavement vanishes and the land speaks wordlessly in wind and stone. As they pressed southward, the green fell away behind them, swallowed by the vastness of the Highlands. It’s a place pared down to its elements—cold, rock, sky—where silence is absolute.
At a lonely farmstead tucked into the shoulder of a ridge, they stepped off the horses and into a harsher rhythm. Ahead lay Vatnajökull—the largest ice cap in Europe, and one of the fastest shrinking. They stepped into skis, hauled up kites, and let the Arctic wind take them across the glacier’s spine. It’s a place both beautiful and brutal, stretched over countless crevasses and a nest of sleepy volcanoes.
At the glacier’s highest reaches, where the wind howls and the ice groans, they paused long enough to feel the deep pull of a world that is slipping away. Then, leaning into the wind, they carried on.
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The southern descent brought them into another Iceland—one born of fire and water. Black sand beaches met the sea in wide arcs. Fishing villages, hunkered low against the relentless weather, dotted the coast as if they’d grown from the black basalt itself.
In this second chapter Geoff and Kitalé trace a landscape shifting under unprecedented pressure. Their ultimate goal? To travel light on the Earth, and bring back something far heavier than statistics: truth, told in the language of lived experience.
Film tour dates will be announced here. In the meantime, you can follow the Wilsons’ progress on Project Zero Earth’s live feed.
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