Jacek Palkiewicz, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Ph. D. Jacek Palkiewicz
Reporter and explorer, resides in Cassola in the Vicenza province of northern Italy. A graduate in Geographical Sciences, before becoming a journalist he was a mate officer, diamond prospector in Sierra Leone, and skipper of big yachts. He has been a glider pilot and karate black belt.

The last expedition: Patagonia At the End of the Earth. Natural Beauty, solitude and silence in some of the most dramatic landscapes on earth.