Shane is the Expeditions Adviser at the Royal Geographical Society, where she provides advice, information and training to hundreds of scientific, educational and adventurous field projects every year.
A zoology graduate with a postgraduate diploma in Information Science, she assisted in the planning and organisation of the Society's own research programmes to the tropical forests of Sarawak and Brunei, the mountains of the Karakoram, and the drylands of western Australia, Kenya and Oman.
She is the chair of BSI’s technical panel for BS 8848: the British Standard that specifies operational requirements for organisers of a wide variety of ventures. These include adventurous and educational activities abroad including university and academic fieldwork, gap year experiences, adventure holidays, charity challenges and research expeditions.
- Communicating your discoveries
Zoe Salt
Zoe is a photographer based in London. Last year she was part of the High Level Route expedition in the Alps.
- School and youth expeditions
Will Close-Ash
Will runs Mountain Energy with his wife, Naomi.
- Art of exploration
Tony Foster
Travelling slowly, on foot or by canoe or raft, and carrying his painting and camping equipment he makes his paintings in response to what he finds on his journeys.
