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Meet Mark Anstice
Mark Anstice, 38, began leading expeditions when he served as an officer in the British army. He routinely squeezed in ambitious desert, jungle and mountain adventures around the world while between operational commitments in the Middle East and Central America.
Since leaving the army as a captain in 1995, Mark has continued to juggle his professional commitments with his love of adventure, combining the two wherever possible. He has led numerous civilian commercial expeditions throughout Asia, the Himalayas and the jungles of Central America.
His first film, Cannibals & Crampons - which he co-directed, shot and starred in (with Bruce Parry) - charted the first ascent of West Papua's "stupendous abyss" and a 21st-century discovery of cannibals. It won both the Banff and Kendal Mountain Film Festivals and has been shown on terrestrial and satellite TV channels around the world. His book about the same expedition, First Contact, was published in 2004.
Mark acted as high-altitude cameraman on Rod Baber's world-record-breaking Europe47 expedition (ascending the highest summits of all 47 European countries in the shortest time) and is a "security and terrain" consultant to several film production companies. In addition, he recently spent 18 months leading a 1,000-man armed local force in Iraq, defended a 200-mile pylon line against saboteurs, and journeyed 1,000 miles across Greenland for Blizzard: Race To The Pole, a BBC series on Captain Scott.
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