Biografía

Has taught at Newcastle University and Mountview Academy of the Theatre Arts.

Formulated a media strategy for the British Exploring Society based at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Has led on two of their expeditions to the Himalayas and Oman.

While on a photographic assignment in Afghanistan was stopped by the Taliban and spent the afternoon in a police station being 'interviewed'.

While a student at Oxford, having watched David Attenborough's Life on Earth, he was inspired to visit the Parc de Virunga to see the mountain gorillas. On route he was arrested by the secret police in Uganda and then almost beaten up by the army in the Congo.