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He has skydived from 30,000ft with Special Forces Soldiers in a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) parachute jump, scuba dived under ice, ridden a bull in a rodeo school, speared fish with soldiers at 90ft under the ocean off Guantanamo Bay, raced in a Dodge Viper at 215mph before having a blow out in the Nevada desert, paraglided with eagles in the high Himalaya in Nepal, flown in aerial dogfights pulling 7 g’s, ridden a jet ski the entire length of the Mississippi, been to 2000ft under the ocean in a homemade submarine and snowkited Alaska’s mythical Bagley Icefield in -30 temperatures. |
He has skydived from 30,000ft with Special Forces Soldiers in a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) parachute jump, scuba dived under ice, ridden a bull in a rodeo school, speared fish with soldiers at 90ft under the ocean off Guantanamo Bay, raced in a Dodge Viper at 215mph before having a blow out in the Nevada desert, paraglided with eagles in the high Himalaya in Nepal, flown in aerial dogfights pulling 7 g’s, ridden a jet ski the entire length of the Mississippi, been to 2000ft under the ocean in a homemade submarine and snowkited Alaska’s mythical Bagley Icefield in -30 temperatures. |
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Green's most recent book is ''Murder in the High Himalayas''<ref>Jonathan Green. ''Murder in the High Himalaya'', [[PublicAffairs]], 2010. ISBN 978-1-58648-714-0</ref> (2010) about the [[Nangpa La shootings]]. Murder in the High Himalaya won the |
Green's most recent book is ''Murder in the High Himalayas''<ref>Jonathan Green. ''Murder in the High Himalaya'', [[PublicAffairs]], 2010. ISBN 978-1-58648-714-0</ref> (2010) about the [[Nangpa La shootings]]. Murder in the High Himalaya won the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category in 2011. It also won the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year in 2011. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere.It is based on an article in ''[[Men's Journal]]'' called "Murder at 19,000 Feet"<ref>Jonathan Green. [http://www.bass-schuler.com/Riders/MensJournal_Nov07_MURDER19K.pdf "Murder at 19,000 Feet"], ''[[Men's Journal]]'', November 2007</ref> which has been optioned by [[Vigorous Pictures]] to made into a film of the same name, for possible release in 2012,<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572187/ ''Murder at 19,000 Feet''], at [[IMDB]]</ref> directed by [[Jake Scott (director)|Jake Scott]].<ref>[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012753.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 "Vigorous options book pair"], ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', Dec 14, 2009.</ref> |
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Jonathan Green is an English journalist and author, born in Bury St Edmunds, he lives in Massachusetts.[1] He attended St Josephs College, Ipswich.
Green has written for the New York Times, Men's Journal, Esquire, GQ, The Financial Times, Men's Health, and The Mail on Sunday, among others.[1] He has reported from Sudan on jihadist militias, the guerilla-controlled jungles of Colombia on the cocaine trade, corruption in oil-rich Kazakhstan, the destruction of the rainforest in Borneo, undercover in the Himalayan mountains in Tibet and Nepal tracking refugee routes, down an illegal gold mine in Africa while investigating human rights abuses along with the gang-controlled favelas of Brazil, the townships of Johannesburg and the garrisons of Jamaica among many other demanding assignments around the globe..[1]
He has skydived from 30,000ft with Special Forces Soldiers in a HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) parachute jump, scuba dived under ice, ridden a bull in a rodeo school, speared fish with soldiers at 90ft under the ocean off Guantanamo Bay, raced in a Dodge Viper at 215mph before having a blow out in the Nevada desert, paraglided with eagles in the high Himalaya in Nepal, flown in aerial dogfights pulling 7 g’s, ridden a jet ski the entire length of the Mississippi, been to 2000ft under the ocean in a homemade submarine and snowkited Alaska’s mythical Bagley Icefield in -30 temperatures.
Green's most recent book is Murder in the High Himalayas[2] (2010) about the Nangpa La shootings. Murder in the High Himalaya won the Banff Mountain Book Competition in the Mountain and Wilderness Category in 2011. It also won the American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non Fiction Book of the Year in 2011. The book is endorsed by the Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere.It is based on an article in Men's Journal called "Murder at 19,000 Feet"[3] which has been optioned by Vigorous Pictures to made into a film of the same name, for possible release in 2012,[4] directed by Jake Scott.[5]
Awards Banff Mountain Book Competition – Winner 2011, Mountain and Wilderness Literature category » read more ‘Murder in the High Himalaya’ American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Non-Fiction Book Award – Winner 2011 » read more ‘Murder in the High Himalaya’ One World Media Awards – Finalist 2011 » read more ‘Is Britain In Too Deep?’ Amnesty International Media Award – Finalist 2009 » read more ‘The Dirty Secret of Your NHS’ One World Media Awards – Press Journalist of the Year – Finalist 2009 » read more Amnesty International Media Award – Winner 2008 » read more ‘Selling Soccer Into Slavery’ The Foreign Press Association in London – Environment Story of the Year 2008 » read more ‘The Dirty Secret of Your NHS’ Magazine Design and Journalism Awards – Winner Exclusive of the Year 2008 ‘The Dirty Secret of Your NHS’ Harper Collins – The Best American Crime Reporting 2008 ‘Murder at 19000ft’ One World – Environment Awards – Finalist 2008 ‘The Biofuel Time Bomb’ North American Travel Journalists Association – Winner 2008 Sports in Conjunction With Travel ‘The Three Peaks Challenge’ Press Gazette Magazine and Design Awards – Winner 2007 » read more Feature Writer of the Year American Society of Journalists and Authors – Winner 2007 » read more Reporting on a Significant Topic ‘Gold’s Deadly Glister’ Grants Fund for Investigative Journalism » read more ‘Murder in the High Himalaya’ Investigative Reporters and Editors – Freelance Investigative Journalism Fellowship ‘Murder in the High Himalaya’.[6]
Notes
- ^ a b c Author page at PublicAffairs
- ^ Jonathan Green. Murder in the High Himalaya, PublicAffairs, 2010. ISBN 978-1-58648-714-0
- ^ Jonathan Green. "Murder at 19,000 Feet", Men's Journal, November 2007
- ^ Murder at 19,000 Feet, at IMDB
- ^ "Vigorous options book pair", Vanity Fair, Dec 14, 2009.
- ^ Bio at JonathanGreenOnline
External links
- Jonathan Green, official website.
- Articles by Jonathan Green