Christopher Horsley

Chris has been working as a volcano access specialist & photographer since 2013 and began guiding, instructing and running volcano expeditions in 2016. Born, raised and educated in the United Kingdom, he left in 2013 and has since been based in Australia, Vanuatu, New Zealand, the Netherlands and is now located in the Highlands of Scotland.

From 2014 to 2018 he was engaged with one business. Rigging, running and photographing /filming erupting volcanoes, specialising in lava lakes for the television and film industry, along with an unusual collection of private clients.

After developing a reputation for volcano access, he now works closely with the TV and film industry as safety & location manager, Expedition leader and front of camera presenter. On camera appearances for productions such as Vice, Google, Insight, BBC, PivotTV, ABC, IMAX, CNN, UniLad, TBS, The Independent, The Daily Mail, The Guardian amongst others.

With a background mainly in rope access, he has multiple firsts decent into erupting craters for science, film and thrill. Drawn to volcanoes for their harsh beauty and temperament, he has spent more time inside erupting volcanoes (with lava lakes) than anyone to date. With these skills he is now filming his first series on volcanoes. (8 episodes - Back2Back Productions).

He is a whitewater kayaker (grade IV) and has recently run 900km of the Blue Nile from its source in Ethiopia to the borders of Sudan where a controversial dam will soon be complete. Filming this descent, he will release a short film for the awareness of the indigenous Gumuz people affected.

After spending 4 months living with a remote river tribe on the Sepik River of Papua New Guinea - learning their ways of life and spirituality - He is currently pitching a 6 part series on remote tribes, aiming to highlight issues faced by remote cultures around the globe, in particular, the threat of large companies on watersheds and land rights.

Marum Crater, Ambrym, Vanuatu - Google Street View 2017