UPCOMING TRIPS

Everest Basecamp
Machu Picchu
Kilimanjaro
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Upcoming Treks & Expeditions

Everest Base Camp Trek
Super Inca Trail/Machu Picchu Trek
Kilimanjaro Expedition
Mt Aconcagua Expedition



MountainVision Associates


Didrik Johnck is a professional photographer and videographer who regularly travels to the farthest corners of the Earth documenting modern day adventures, while creating and producing original editorial content for some of the most well-known sites in the world, including MSNBC.com, MSN.com, and Yahoo.com.  His assignments have taken him across the Himalayas and to the top of Mount Everest, into the jungles of Colombia and Rwanda, and through the city streets of places like Bangkok, Sarajevo, Kathmandu, and Marrakesh. Didrik's imagery has been featured on the cover of Time magazine and Life's "Year in Pictures."

Didrik is happy to offer his services to MountainVision clients at special rates. Upon request and a minimum number of participating clients, Didrik will accompany any MountainVision expedition or trek and document the ascent using video and stills. Then, upon returning home you will receive an edited compilation of CDs and DVDs, exquisitely capturing your adventure of a lifetime, forever.

 

Michael Brown has been making adventure related films for fifteen years. His early experience in film was as a production assistant and sound man and then as an assistant cameraman usually with his father Roger and his brothers Gordon and Nicolas. Now he usually finds himself producing, directing, shooting or editing his own films for his company Serac Films.

Michael's films have received over thirty international film festival awards as well as many industry awards including three national Sports Emmy awards from five nominations. He is known for tenacity and a ‘can do’ attitude about film production. This attitude and love of adventure has brought him, camera in hand, to the summit of Mount Everest three times from different routes.  He has also been a part of several fist kayak descents of white water rivers and exploration of unclimbed summits.

 

With the help of Sherpas and a great team, Michael brought the first high definition (HD) video camera to the summit of Mount Everest in 2001. He was there to direct and shoot the historic National Federation of the Blind Expedition with blind climber Erik Weihenmayer. Michael later edited the award winning film “Farther Than the Eye Can See” about this amazing adventure.

 

Chieko Maruyama (Tokyo, Japan) is the co-founder of Workshop Land, Tokyo, Japan. She has organized 400+ workshops and seminars since 2002 to explore human potentials in diverse areas with different international workshop leaders. As CEO of Open Sense Co, Ltd, she publishes multi-media materials for leadership education and personal growth from her experience as a business trainer who has traveled all over Japan to speak at seminars.

Chieko has been seeking to be a bridge between two different worlds especially the East and the West. She loves travel and cross-cultural exchanges, and has visited 42 countries in the world. She speaks English, Japanese, and some French.
She holds a B, A. in French studies, and M.A. in Sociology, and is currently studying Gestalt Awareness Practice.  

Chieko has been acting as an organizer and interpreter at seminars and workshops that Jeff Evans and MountainVision have led in Japan since Sept. 2005. Chieko and Jeff have also collaborated to lead Japanese groups to the country's highest and holiest mountain, Mt Fuji in 2005 and 2006 as well as on a successful Mt Kilimanjaro Expedition in 2006.

 

Dr. Phil Arnold has been a friend of Jeff Evans and MountainVision since 2001 where he joined the trekking group on the NFB Everest Expedition with Erik Weihenmayer. Outdoor activities have always been a consistent part of his personal and professional life. After college he attended two NOLS mountaineering courses and became a certified sea kayak instructor. For the next four years he spent his summers on the great lakes and his winters playing in the mountains around Bozeman, MT.  There in the mid 1990's his love of mountain culture and exploration grew and grew.  Dr Arnold completed a residency in Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a fellowship in Sports Medicine at Virginia Tech University. He currently practices in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin and gets away as often as possible to travel and attend expeditions and seminars in wilderness medicine.

Dr Phil will be the primary medical officer on many MountainVision trips, primarily when Jeff is not on the trip.

 

Adam Clark, (Tokyo, Japan) is an outdoor enthusiast most prominently featured as a columnist with Outdoor Japan magazine. He has 16 years in the field of experiential training and development as both an educator and consultant. To that end, Adam is on the faculty of the Yokohama International School as an advisor to students where he uses outdoor experience and creative classroom lessons to help students learn important life skills. He is also a consultant with Project Adventure Inc./Japan and works with companies to implement strategic value changes both in Asia and North America.

“It has been a great pleasure to work with Jeff and MountainVision to help clients connect the lessons their experiences there offer their daily lives whether they are company employees, managers, students, parents, or simply individuals seeking a more fulfilling future.”

Adam is one of our main colleagues in the Japanese markets and will be joining many MountainVision trips in the future.

Adam can be reached through www.outdoorjapan.com or  www.yis.ac.jp

 

Dana Welch (Travel Society, Denver CO) has been traveling the world for several decades now and has developed a vast knowledge in the business of travel. She has been associated with Jeff and MountainVision for close to a decade now and has assisted MountainVision clients travel smoothly around the globe in a kind and thorough manner time and again.

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