Dominic Gill is a British adventurer, filmmaker and author of the book ''
Take a Seat''.
Born in
Oxford,
United Kingdom, and educated at
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , also ) is a market town, civil parish, and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, north-west of London; at the 2021 census, it had a population of 76,782. The town's name can be pronounced as either 'Sh ...
, Gill became a
biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual cell, a multicellular organism, or a community of interacting populations. They usually specialize in ...
who, at the age of 25, left the corporate world of environmental consulting to fulfill his dream as an adventurer and filmmaker. He set up shop creating and producing film and television content. Gill's first adventure film ''Take A Seat: Alaska to Argentina'', in which he rode a
tandem bicycle from top of
Alaska to the bottom of
Argentina,
won Special Jury Prize at the
Banff Mountain Film Festival in 2009 and has since been shown in over 400 cities worldwide. He also published the story of this journey in the book, ''Take A Seat''.
External links
Official website
References
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British writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)