Jason Schoonover

Jason Schoonover is a writer, adventurer and expedition leader. He's a Fellow Emeritus, Stefansson Medalist, Citation of Merit awardee, and on the Honor Roll of The Explorers Club; and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.

He’s been on over 100 expeditions and team leader on most, including several 18-20-member dinosaur bone prospecting ventures with renowned paleontologist Phil Currie as his field leader; explored Asian jungles seeking anthropological collections for museums internationally; excavated caves for Paleolithic tools resulting in the Hintok Camp Museum on the River Kwai; led numerous canoe expeditions with Capt. Norm Baker, Thor Heyerdahl’s first mate on the Ra voyages across the Atlantic, as his own first mate; and explored Thailand’s abandoned WW-II River Kwai Death Railway with Sir Rodney Beattie. He’s also been charged by a bull elephant, caught between a mother bear and her cub, dived on shipwrecks, and been around the world several times.

He was profiled in Jerry’s Hopkins’ Bangkok Babylon: The Real-Life Exploits of Bangkok’s Legendary Expatriates is often Stranger than Fiction, and featured in Jim McCormick and Maryann Karinch’s Business Lessons from the Edge: Learn How Extreme Athletes Use Intelligent Risk Taking to Succeed in Business.

Jason splits his year between Thailand, Canada, and the rest of the world.