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A Day in the Life...
Petzl Sport On screen guiding and mountain safety in winter conditions for a Petzl promotional film.
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News feature
ITV Border 
Provided winter mountain safety and porterage for a news crew
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APEX Everest
Provided onscreen guiding and mountain safety for a crew filming promotional material for an events company.
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The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power (Season 2)
GSR Productions & Amazon Prime Video 
Health & safety manager for a large scale production shooting in the mountains and around water margins
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Planets (Series 2) w/ Brian Cox
BBC Studios: Science 
Pre-deployment briefing & training for a film crew prior to a cold weather and extreme environment shoot
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GSDS - Above the Earth, Below the Stars
Walk the Plank & BBC Countryfile The final edit following a months filming on Scafell Pike, Ben Nevis, Snowdon & Slieve Donard. A safety team of 38 worked a total of 144 days on the mountains while the 55 members of the porter team carried nearly 3.5 tons of equipment in all weathers
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Green Space Dark Skies - Slieve Donard
Walk The Plank & BBC Countryfile 
Mountain safety team for a large scale arts / filming project at the Mourne Wall Col on Slieve Donard involving 500+ performers at dusk. We also provided a large porter team.
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Green Space Dark Skies - Snowdon
Walk The Plank & BBC Countryfile 
Mountain safety team for a large scale arts / filming project at Llyn Llydaw below Snowdon involving 50 performers at dusk. We also provided a large porter team.
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Green Space Dark Skies - Ben Nevis
Walk The Plank & BBC Countryfile 
Mountain safety team for a large scale arts / filming project at the Half Way Lochan on Ben Nevis involving 100+ performers at dusk. We also provided a large porter team.
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Green Space Dark Skies - Scafell Pike
Walk The Plank & BBC Countryfile 
Mountain safety for a large scale arts / filming project on the flanks of Scafell PIke involving 400+ performers at dusk. We also provided a large porter team.
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Green Space Dark Skies - Parys Mountain
Walk the Plank Health & Safety Manager and location safety for a large scale arts / filming project at dusk on Parys Mountain, Anglesey. 400 crew and cast members
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Green Space Dark Skies - Three Cliffs Bay
Walk the Plank Water safety team for a large scale arts / filming project on a tidal river at the Gower, South Wales
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The Landscape Project - JHP Visuals & The British Mountaineering Council
Mountain contributor for a series bringing climbing & natural history together
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The Americas
BBC Studios: Natural History Unit 
Designed and facilitated a bespoke UK based mountain & high altitude training course, including practical and online elements, for the production crew prior to the start of filming
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Event 5 - Sea Kayaking
Live + Wild (5G) 
RAMS, location consultancy, safety boat, safety kayakers & film safety for a sea kayaking live stream & documentary shoot around Holy Island, Northumberland using experimental 5G technology
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Event 4 - Night Skies
Live + Wild (5G) 
RAMS, location consultancy & safety for a live broadcast from Kielder Observatory using experimental 5G technology
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Earthsounds
Offspring Films / Apple TV Designed and facilitated a bespoke online cold weather & mountain training course for the production crew prior to the start of filming
Location consultancy for a high altitude mountain shoot |
Our Changing Planet
BBC Studios: Natural History Unit 
Designed a bespoke mountain & polar cold weather training course in Scotland for the production crew prior to filming.
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Event 3 - Caving
Live + Wild (5G) 
RAMS, 4x4 support, tech innovation, rigging & location consultancy / safety for a live broadcast from Alum Pot, Yorkshire using experimental 5G technology
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The Pennines: Backbone of Britain
True North Productions for Channel 4 
Film & location safety, rigging & risk assessments for a rock climbing sequence with visually impaired climber Jesse Dufton
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Event 2 - Helvellyn Triathlon
Live + Wild (5G) 
Mountain cameraman, water safety, location consultancy and film safety for a live broadcast from an extreme triathlon in the Lake District utilising experimental 5G technology
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Event 1 - Sea Cliff Climbing
Live + Wild (5G) 
Location consultancy, management and safety for a live broadcast from the sea cliffs of Gogarth using experimental 5G technology. Extensive rigging for film crew and technology.
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Live + Wild (5G)
Candour Productions & aql 
MTN Safety partnered with Candour Productions and aql to test the capacity of 5G to support the needs of film production in the UK in a variety of extreme remote locations, terrains and weather conditions. Projects include sea cliff climbing, caving, wild swimming, road biking, mountain running & sea kayaking.
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Epic Wales - Valleys, Mountains & Coasts
True North Productions for Channel 4 
Location & safety consultancy and risk assessment for a rock climbing sequence in Llanberis Pass, Snowdonia.
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Mammals
BBC Studios: Natural History Unit 
Designed and facilitated a bespoke UK based cold weather training course, including practical and online elements, for the production crew prior to the start of filming.
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Britain's Most Beautiful Landscapes
Emporium Productions for More 4 
Contributor, film safety and mountain cameraman for a winter mountaineering sequence
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Asia
BBC Studios: Natural History Unit 
Designed a bespoke mountain & polar cold weather training course in Norway & Scotland for the production crew prior to filming.
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The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes - Seasons
True North Productions for More 4 
Location consultancy, film & location safety, communications & porterage for a winter climbing & ski mountaineering sequence on Helvellyn, Lake District
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The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes - Seasons
True North Productions for More 4 
Swift water & location safety and porterage for a white water kayaking sequence in the Keld Gorge, Swaledale
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The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes - Seasons
True North Productions for More 4 
Rigging & location safety for a rock climbing shoot at Goredale Scar, Yorkshire
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The Great Mountain Sheep Gather
Windfall Films for BBC 4 
Location consultancy & scouting, mountain safety, communications provision & porterage for an ambitious 3 day, multiple drone shoot on the Lake District Fells. 6 x safety guides.
2021 BAFTA for Photography: Factual
Windfall Films |
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Frozen Planet 2
BBC Studios: Natural History Unit 
Bespoke mountain & polar cold weather training course for the production crew prior to filming.
Location and safety consultant for a shoot in Siberia, Russia. |
Countryfile Diaries
BBC 1 
Risk assessment and technical advice for a winter shoot on Helvellyn, Lake District.
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Life of a Mountain - Helvellyn
Terry Abraham 
Contributor for Terry Abraham's final mountain film working as one of the Lake District National Park's Fell Top Assessors. Various winter mountaineering film shoots.
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The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes - Series I True North Productions for More 4
Location consultancy, film safety, rigging & porterage for a rock climbing sequence
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The World at One
BBC Radio 4 
Location safety and contributor for a historical program on rock climbing in the Lake District with Emma Jane Kirby
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BBC Breakfast & Inside Out NW
BBC 1 
Mountain film safety and on camera guiding for a winter ascent of Helvellyn with the Lake District National Park Fell Top Assessors & Peter Marshall. Sequence also used on BBC North West Tonight & Inside Out NE & Cumbria.
Additional sequence for ITV Border News |
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Devon & Cornwall
More 4 & True North Productions 
RAMS, rigging and location safety for a rock climbing sequence on the Devon coast.
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North West Tonight - Sport Relief 2018
BBC 1 
Challenge design, mountain safety, on-camera guiding & equipment hire for a winter ascent of Scafell Pike for a Sport Relief challenge. One participant was visually impaired.
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The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes - Series II
True North Productions for More 4 
Film & location safety for a skiing sequence on Fleetworth Pike.
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The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes - Series II True North Productions for More 4
Location safety for an ascent of a Lakeland fell in a motorised wheelchair.
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The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes - Series II
True North Productions for More 4 
On camera guiding & location safety for an ascent of Napes Needle.
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Sachtler & Vinten Tripods
Ember Films 
Technical advice & provision of high altitude climbing kit for a Ember Films marketing campaign for Sachtler and Vinten tripods.
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World Extreme Medicine
Polar Training Course 
Location safety, instruction, stills photography and filming in Arctic Norway. Polar training course for Expedition Medics in 2017 & 18
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Grough Online Magazine
www.grough.co.uk 
Mountain guiding, instruction and safety on a winter ascent of Helvellyn as a Lake District National Park Fell Top Assessor for an article on Winter Mountain Safety.
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Wild Tri
Warner Music UK Mobile mountain cameraman for a Warner Music Activius Challenge Event in the Lake District Fells. Long day on the hill locating & filming groups with DSLR & GoPro.
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Between The Ears: Give me Space Beneath my Feet - BBC Radio 3
Risk assessment and sign off for a rock climbing project 'Give me Space Below my Feet' with poet Helen Mort plus rigging & location safety during the recording on Raven Crag, Langdale, Lake District.
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Ranulph Fiennes
Global Reach Challenge 
Working for Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions
Worked as part of the ALE Guide team guiding Ranulph Fiennes on an ascent of Mt Vinson for his Global Reach Challenge. Provided roped safety for cameraman David Carter (Fieldcraft Studios) plus porterage, on camera guiding & stills photography. |
Beyond Bionic
CBBC 
Working as part of the Mountain Circles safety team provided location consultancy, film safety, on-camera guiding & rigging for Andy Torbet on a Tyrolean Traverse
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Wild Stride
Warner Music UK 
Stills & film cameraman for a Warner Music Activius Challenge Event in the Lake District Fells.
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The Yorkshire Dales & the Lakes
True North Productions for More 4 Provided location advice, on camera guiding, stunts, filming, film safety and technical rigging for a variety of shoots for a True North Productions series for More 4. Shoots included sky running on the Helvellyn edges, following the National Park fell top assessors & rock climbing on Shepherds Crag.
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Planet Earth II
BBC Natural History Unit 
Employed as mountain cameraman (Canon XF205) to film speed fliers Aaron Durogati & Armin Holtze climbing & flying from Italy's Mt Ortler (3905m). Poor conditions forced a change of location to the Dolomites. Additional duties as sound recordiest (633)
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Planet Earth II
BBC Natural History Unit Provided safety, logistics & filming for a Himalayan Jumping Spider shoot in the Gokyo region of Nepal. Outdoor & studio macro shoot with Red Epic/ Dragon & Mira High Speed cameras. Timelapse, back plate and Jib footage. Mobile camera for 'Making Of' footage (Canon XF105). Location and risk assessment consultant
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Gould Bay Emperor Penguins
Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions Working for Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions
Working as part of the ALE Guide team provided location safety & guiding at an Emperor Penguin colony for photographers (Sue Flood, Josh Holko, Jodie Willard) on a sea ice camp at Gould Bay, Antarctica. Developed sea ice rescue protocols. |
Davina, Beyond Breaking Point
BBC 1 & Sport Relief Working with Threshold Sports, Sport Relief and the BBC providing safety and on-camera guiding for a Sport Relief mountain challenge with Davina McCall & Greg Whyte. Prior to the event we carried out route planning, camera location recces and provided a written risk assessment & method statement.
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Antarctic Ice Marathon
Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions 
Working for Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions
Working as part of the ALE Travel Safety team we provided skidoo transport and safety for the official Antarctic Ice Marathon camera team in 2014,15, 16 & 17 |
Countrywise
Shiver Productions for ITV 
Providing location consultancy and recce, risk assessments, camera location recce, mountain safety, equipment porterage, technical rigging and on camera guiding for an ascent of Pillar Rock, Ennerdale with Ben Fogle. Filmed & produced by Shiver Productions.
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The Economist
1843 Magazine 
Working for Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions
Working as part of the ALE travel safety team providing glacier safety, skidoo transportation and location advice for journalist Sophy Roberts and film maker Ken Kochey. Their article and short film appeared in the Economists 1843 magazine |
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Mountain: Life at the Extreme
BBC Natural History Unit 
Provided safety, logistics & filming for a Himalayan Jumping Spider shoot in the Gokyo region of Nepal. Outdoor & studio macro shoot with Red Epic/ Dragon & Mira High Speed cameras. Timelapse, back plate and jib footage.
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Expedition Greenland
Adventure 4 Change Working for Tangent Expeditions
Provided guiding, skidoo transport and filming for Adventure for Change on the east coast of Greenland. |
Summit for Heroes
Promotional Film Written risk assessment, mountain filming and technical training for the Summit For Heroes Ben Nevis and Everest climbs
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The Ultimate Climb
Discovery Channel 
Working for Adventure Peaks
Expedition leader for the Adventure Peaks Everest (NE Ridge) Expedition 2011 which was the focus of The Ultimate Climb, a Discovery UK documentary on Geordie Stewart presented by James Cracknell. Provided expedition leadership, logistics & high altitude filming / photography |
C2C Adventure Race
Open Adventure Provided additional footage for the official Open Adventure race film from DM Two
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Adventure Peaks
Expedition Video Working for Adventure Peaks
Provided film footage for an Adventure Peaks expedition video. Footage shot during a successful ascent of Carstensz Pyramid, West Papua, Indonesia. |
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Life Story
BBC Natural History Unit Working for Tangent Expeditions
Provided safety cover and security, recces, technical rigging and filming for the David Attenborough series Life Story. 3 week shoot filming Barnacle Geese on 70m basalt cliffs in Orestad Dal, East Greenland. Mobile camera for 'Making Of' footage (Canon XF105). Rigging and operation of 7m boom at height. |
Josh Lewsey on Everest
Adventure Peaks 
Working for Adventure Peaks
Training, guiding & high altitude imagery & filming for Josh Lewsey during an Adventure Peaks trek to K2 Base Camp, Pakistan as part of his preparations for Everest in 2010 |
Adventure Peaks
Promotional Film Working for Adventure Peaks
Provided film footage for an Adventure Peaks promotional video. Footage shot during a successful ascent of Baruntse 7129m in Nepal |
