I had been capturing BASE jumping in Australia for a couple years when I started to yearn for new territories and new landscapes to shoot. With my friend Jim Mitchell in mind to join me, I brainstormed a trip to Tasmania. But after months of pestering him, he told me to “piss off” (Australianism), admitting that his knee was not in great shape. I shrugged it off and he soon asked me if I would be interested in going to Baffin Island, instead, for another BASE jumping expedition.
Baffin Island holds a special place in my heart — it was my very first expedition. Even though I love hotter regions having grown up on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, I constantly find myself in -20 degree Celsius temperatures. Before, when I was a child, I always thought anything under +20 degree Celsius was cold. But here I am, drawn to the coldest corners of the Earth.
For two seasons, I worked as a guide for an Antarctic Tourism company. This offered me the ideal opportunity to photograph landscapes and wildlife. And in 2011, I documented a five-week expedition to northern Pakistan with three Red Bull pilots — Horacio Llorens, Tom De Dorlodot and Hernan Pitocco — as they attempted to break the world altitude record. Soon, I headed back to Alaska with an all female crew to ski big lines in the Wrangell St. Elias Range. Thus, it is probably easy to see that there is an undeniable magnetism between me and these frozen corners; and I expect to keep visiting them.
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