Richard Else is one of the England's most experienced producer-directors. His latest series, Wild Climbs, finished showing on BBC 2 at the end of 1999. Two films from the series won the Grand Prize and Judges Award at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. Else's films have also won awards at Vancouver, New York and Telluride Film Festival. Recent credits include a film on wilderness walks and another on mountain rescue. He made Sir Chris Bonnington's Great Railway Journey. An earlier project, The Edge (looking at 100 years of Scottish climbing), was described by the Daily Mail as, 'a perfect documentary'. He has filmed in many of the world's least hospitable places including Baffin islands in winter, the Himalaya, the Canadian Rockies and Yukon and European Alps. He is co-author of four books on climbing and wilderness travel.