His images have been featured in publications such as Outside, Canadian Geographic, the Globe and Mail, Boston Herald, and London Times. In 2007, Derek won the prestigious Northern Lights Award in Travel Photography for his coverage of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, a 1,600-kilometer endurance event. In 2010, he was awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s longest Arctic unsupported snowkiting expedition. He traveled for 67 days, using the wind to ski from Greenland’s southern Atlantic coast to the Arctic coast, then back across to the Thule region. A lifelong cyclist, Derek founded Singletrack to Success, a mentoring organization for aboriginal youth in the Yukon.