Jon’s background includes working as a climbing guide in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, training and coordinating search and rescue fulltime from 1992-99, working a season in 1997 with Denali Mountain Rescue in Alaska, has been a professor at Thompson Rivers University since 2002 and also served as Associate Dean of Law for 4 years. He teaches in the Adventure Studies Department and the law school. He's co-authored a university textbook on outdoor adventure risk management and written 9 book chapters, and 80+ articles, and presented at more than 50 conferences world-wide. Jon consults with all levels of government and the private sector. Even though he’s grey and getting creaky and can’t climb or run as hard as he used to, he still gets out to the mountains.