  
In the past 15 years Jonathan has spent 12 austral summer seasons in Antarctica resulting in numerous books and other media projects including, TerraQuest's ground breaking "web expedition" Virtual Antarctica . In the course of his career as an explorer he as logged many major ascents including: Broad Peak (8047m) in the Karakoram range of Pakistan; Annapurna III in the Nepal Himalaya; a traverse of the Alaska Range (which included an ascent of Mount McKinley) the Caroline face of Mount Cook in New Zealand; El Capitan, Yosemite Valley in the USA;. He was a member of the team that made highly acclaimed first ascent of Mount Minto, the highest peak in Antarctica's North Victoria Land - an expedition covered in The Loneliest Mountain which he photographed as co-author with Lincoln Hall. Jonathan's images are marketed by his company Extreme Images Inc. and his work has been exhibited internationally. The leap from still photography to film making has been made on a number of occasions including working as a consultant for Antarctica the first IMAX film to made in the far south and as producer and writer for the a television documentary The Last Husky for National Geographic Explorer. Jonathan is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), The North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Jonathan is an expedition leader, a naturalist and historian on polar tourist cruises. Jonathan has also been lecturing on the Antarctic, the Himalaya and photography for over 20 years. He lives in the Berkeley hills with his wife Kirsty Melville and twins Cormac and Katharine.  Jonathan Chester Extreme Images Inc. P.O. Box 7398 Berkeley, CA 94707 Phone 510-235-7533 Fax 510-235-7590 jchester@extremeimages.com ©1997-2004 Extreme Images, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Jonathan is one of the world's leading polar photographers
and expeditioners. In the course of thirty five years of travelling
to the world's most wild and remote destinations he has also excelled
as an author, film producer, guide and mountaineer.