First Class Honours BA in Philosophy at Cardiff University, 1972, and MA(RCA) in film and television at the Royal College of Art School of Film and TV, 1975. ARPS, FRGS. Keen rock-climber and mountaineer for 40 years from 1966. Worked in the television and film industries as a freelance assistant film editor from 1975-79 – for BBC Nationwide, Panorama, Thames TV, etc., then on several major feature films from 1979-86 (notably with Stanley Kubrick as first assistant editor and music editor on The Shining, as assistant editor on Peter Yates’ Krull and The Dresser, and on Wolfgang Petersen’s Neverending Story.) Author of five non-fiction books. Winner of the Thomas Cook Illustrated Travel Book Award 1992 for ‘Eyes to the Hills’, the Outdoor Writers’ Guild Award for Excellence 1995 for ‘The Cuillin’, and two major awards at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in 1994 and 2012 (for ‘The Cuillin’ and ‘Fiva: An Adventure  that went wrong’.) Currently completing a book on working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining.