An Invitation to the Origins
Step into the world's highest, wildest, and most vital landscapes with filmmaker Dirk Collins.
These are not tours. They are professional expeditions. Helicopters to remote base camps, research vessels through glacier channels, camel treks across ancient trade routes.
Each journey funds and documents active preservation projects, proving that exploration can be the most powerful form of mountain stewardship.
Limited to 12 participants per expedition, Origin Expeditions offers private access to landscapes and communities few will ever experience.
Extraordinary Encounters
Meet the people your participation supports. Coffee farmers beneath Everest, Alpine innovators, Patagonian gauchos, and Kenyan rangers.
Extraordinary Photography
Capture untold stories alongside professional filmmakers and photographers. Document the communities and landscapes you help protect.
Extraordinary Legacy
Leave more than footprints. Each expedition funds long-term preservation work in the very landscapes you explore.
First Light
Dawn breaking across mountain ranges worldwide. Every elevation begins with illumination, capturing moments when darkness gives way to possibility.
Explore First Light
Into the Unknown
Expeditions beginning across seven continents. The courage required to step into uncertainty, finding meaning in wild spaces.
View the Journey
Essential Majesty
Timeless peaks in monochrome. Black and white photography revealing form, texture, and permanence stripped to essential elements.
Discover Majesty
Forces of Nature
Storm systems, dramatic weather, atmospheric intensity. Nature revealing its overwhelming power and dominance.
Witness the Power
The Human Element
Mountains and people thriving together. The invisible threads connecting alpine communities to your daily life worldwide.
See the ConnectionOrigin Expeditions 2026-27
By invitation only. Limited to 12 participants per journey.
What Makes Origin Expeditions Unique
Professional Expeditions
Led by filmmaker Dirk Collins and elite field teams trusted by National Geographic, Disney, and Rolex. These aren't tours; they're cinematic, preservation-driven expeditions guided by the same experts who document the world's most remote environments.
Access Few Will Ever Know
Helicopters, research vessels, and off-road convoys take you deep into regions closed to tourism. From high-altitude coffee farms in Nepal to glaciers of Patagonia, you'll stand where few humans have ever set foot.
Transparent Preservation Impact
Your expedition investment directly funds measurable preservation. From elephant corridors in Kenya to coffee farming in Nepal to glacier research in Chile, you'll witness where your contribution goes and meet the people it empowers.
Photography & Purpose Combined
Every expedition blends professional mentorship with real preservation storytelling. Learn alongside leading photographers and filmmakers, creating imagery that fuels awareness and long-term protection.
Four continents. Four expeditions. One movement.
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Dirk Collins
Filmmaker. Explorer. Preservation Photographer.
Few have seen the world's extremes through both a camera lens and a preservation lens like Dirk Collins. As co-founder of Teton Gravity Research, Dirk helped pioneer expedition filmmaking before leading environmental storytelling projects across all seven continents.
His work with National Geographic, Disney, Rolex, and Oscar-winning filmmakers has captured humanity's relationship with the planet's most fragile frontiers, from Antarctica's ice shelves to Everest's summit.
With Origin Expeditions, Dirk brings that legacy full circle, merging storytelling, science, and preservation into one unparalleled experience.
"Dirk is always my first call for the world's most complex and remote expeditions."
Expedition Gallery
A visual journey through the landscapes, communities, and preservation work that define Origin Expeditions.
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Be among the select few invited to join filmmaker Dirk Collins and the Planet 5 team on the world's most exclusive preservation expeditions.
No payment or commitment required. Invitations are limited to 12 participants per expedition.