Jon is a General Practitioner and part-time staff doctor in the Emergency Department of Bristol Royal Infirmary. Jon's expedition experience varies from the Deserts of Namibia, Sinai and Northern Kenya to the Jungles of Sulawesi, Belize, Thailand and Ecuador, and high altitude climbs and treks to Nepal, Greenland, Pakistan, Iceland, Morocco, East Africa and the Andes. Jon is an International Mountain Leader, a member of the Alpine Club and a member of faculty on the UIAA Diploma in Mountain Medicine.
Jon is our expedition medical consultant. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (published September 2008). He co-founded 'Wilderness Medical Training' in 1991 and runs courses for doctors on expedition medicine in Chamonix and Morocco.
Izzy first discovered the Jungle on a conservation expedition to Belize and Guatemala. The bug bit and she has never looked back. Since then she has graduated in Environmental Biology (1st class) and conducted postgraduate ecological research in the high altitude Páramo of Ecuador. Izzy has operated in several diverse environments around the world, including Borneo, Central and South America, Nepal and Continental Europe. She is well versed in dealing with extreme conditions whilst on expedition and has planned several independant expeditions herself. In her free time she is seen climbing, skiing and hiking around Scotland.
Charles Montier
Expedition Consultant
A mountaineering season in the Peruvian Andes gave Charles his first taste of expedition life. He subsequently undertook a variety of expeditions, whilst completing his Economics degree at Bristol University. He travelled to Nepal, where he lived with yak herders and trekked the high altitude Ganja La Pass. He then set off on a spontaneous solo journey from Kathmandu to Calcutta, on a one-speed Indian bicycle. The following summer, he completed a survival course in the Guyanese jungle, which provided the foundation for executing two further expeditions in Guyana’s untouched interior. The first of these was a journey by dugout canoe with members of Guyana’s most isolated tribe, the Wai Wai. The second involved the very first descent of the Potaro River, from source to mouth, with two Patamona Indians. This was his most challenging expedition to date, taking 17 months to organise and finance, and counted the Guyanese army amongst its primary sponsors.
Charles lives in London, where he combines his work for S2S with his work for private tuition companies. He’s our newest expedition consultant and offers an additional exciting dynamic to our experienced team.
Will has been involved in expeditions for over 5 years to such places as Ghana, Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and USA, working his way from volunteer to logistics staff to construction management. He has since become an expert on African toilets...
When not on expedition he is responsible for web design and other technical aspects of Sky2Sea.
An Exercise Physiologist by trade Iain is based primarily in North Wales. His love of travel started when he was just 17 and has seen him return to Africa on many expeditions, working with Sightsavers International and the Ghanain Wildlife Department, as well as working as a kayak guide on both the White Nile and the Zambezi rivers.
As an experienced snowboarder and kayaker, he spent his university years working as a climbing instructor in Snowdonia, and is currently in New Zealand training to become a pilot. Originally conceptualising the logo and underlying ethos of S2Si, Iain works to ensure that S2Si provides only the highest quality of operations, expeditions and projects.
