About the curator / chief guide:
I’m Chris, a former Captain in the British Royal Marines, I was a risk advisor on the BBC’s Safety, Security, and Resilience team, worked for Sir Elton John’s Rocket Entertainment and founded Haus of Hiatus digital design studio. I’m a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Geographic Society (FRGS), have a Master’s degree in Business Management, and have travelled in over 60 countries on 6 different continents.
I grew up in the UK, and from an early age, resolved to live a vibrant life, and show that you can do incredible things through perseverance, grit, sweat, tears, some broken bones, and a lot of hard work!
I love interesting travel, innovative new ideas, physically, socially, and mentally challenging myself, and have:
- rowed across the Atlantic Ocean (where I achieved my second world record)
- completed the infamous Marathon des Sables,
- ran marathons and climbed mountains in really remote places (such as Afghanistan & Kyrgyzstan),
- finished the Devizes to Westminster canoe race,
- fully traversed the Aonach Eagach ridgeline,
- summited Mont Blanc,
- built earthquake shelters in remote Nepal,
- ‘crossed the line’ with King Neptune at the centre of the world (aka ‘Null Island’),
- Planned and co-ordinated a live TV stunt in central London involving Bear Grylls,
- got an IMDB credit from performing alongside Hollywood actor, Corey Stoll
- helocasted,
- ridden my motorbike on 1000-mile trips across Europe and the US,
- successfully finished 2 x Ironman triathlons,
- regrown bones 5 centimetres of shin bone (aka tibula) after a mountaineering accident in a process known as ‘Osteogenesis’
- attended a Buckingham Palace garden party
- set world records,
and now have my sights set on completing the Silk Road Mountain (bikepacking) race in the coming years.
As I enter my forties, I want to make the benefits of well-planned, challenging, safe yet adventurous experiences known to more people in the coming years, so that others can live more vibrantly through uncertain times also.
