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CHRIS RAINIER
Chris Rainier is considered one of today’s leading documentary photographers specializing in
indigenous cultures. A National Geographic Society Explorer, Chris was the co-founder of National
Geographic's All Roads Photography Program and is a co-director of National Geographic's Enduring
Voices Project, which sets out to preserve endangered languages and cultures through audio record-
ings, photography, and storytelling. He also serves as a contributing editor for National Geographic
Traveler. Chris currently directs the Last Mile Technology Program, which empowers endangered
cultures to save their ancient traditions through the use of modern technology. He has won numerous
awards for his photography, including the Lowell Thomas Award, given by the Explorers Club for his
work documenting little-known cultures. He was recently elected a Fellow at the Royal Geographical
Society in London. Chris will join the following expeditions: November 3, 2014 Exploring the Coral
Sea: Papua New Guinea to Fiji; December 3, 2014 Legends of the South Pacifi c: Tahiti to Easter
Island; and the February 16, 2015 Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falklands departures.JOHN FRANCIS
As an affi rmation of his responsibility to our planet, National Geographic Fellow John Francis chose
to stop using motorized vehicles and began walking wherever he went. A few months later he
took a vow of silence that would last 17 years. He walked across the Pacifi c Northwest, crossed
the Sierra and Rocky Mountains, and traversed America from coast to coast. Along the way—and
without a word—he earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in science and environmental
studies and a Ph.D. in land resources. He then voyaged across the Caribbean to South America
and spent years walking its length to the southernmost tip of Patagonia. In
2008, National Geographic published Francis’s stirring memoir Planetwalker:
22 Years of Walking, 17 Years of Silence. Francis also founded “Planetwalk,”
a nonprofi t educational organization dedicated to raising environmental
consciousness and promoting Earth stewardship. In 2010, Francis became
the fi rst National Geographic Education Fellow. John will join the
October 23, 2014 Patagonia and the Chilean Fjords expedition.PETER HILLARY
When Peter Hillary fi rst climbed Mount
Everest in 1990, he and his father, Sir Edmund
Hillary—who made the fi rst ascent of Mount
Everest in 1953—became the fi rst father and
son to reach the summit. He reached the
summit again in 2002 on a National
Geographic-sponsored ascent later featured
in the fi lm Surviving Everest. Peter has completed more than
40 mountaineering expeditions and will share his stories
on the February 6, 2015 Journey to Antarctica and the
February 16, 2015 Antarctica, South Georgia and the
Falklands departure.JARED DIAMOND
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
Jared Diamond is the author of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel.
A professor of geography and environmental
health science at UCLA, he has penned more
than 200 articles for major magazines. Jared
is an authority on many subjects—from
evolutionary biology and genetics to linguistics and archaeol-
ogy—and he will share his insights into the development of
human societies throughout the world on the February
14, 2015 Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falklands
departure.