Since 1990, Liesl Clark has traveled the globe writing, producing and directing many of the world’s most extreme filming expeditions including filming elephant behavior deep inside bat-infested caves on the Kenya-Uganda border, exploring the affects of high altitude on humans on Mount Everest, documenting the unearthing of a 500-year-old frozen Inca mummy on an 18,000 foot Andean peak, and discovering the body of George Leigh Mallory high on the North Face of Everest.
In 2001, Liesl and a team of world-class climbers, including Jon Krakauer and Conrad Anker, pioneered a new route to the highest point on the southernmost continent to study the rates of snow accumulation in Antarctica’s highest mountains. Her NOVA film about the expedition, which took her to a hostile land no humans have trod, won a Prime Time Emmy Award for Cinematography. Her films, which include footage she shoots at high altitude, have won the Columbia Dupont Gold Baton and awards in several film festivals around the world. She is now an independent filmmaker, working with broadcasters such as National Geographic Television, NOVA, and France 5, directing and shooting a 7-year project uncovering 2000-year-old human mortuary populations found inside cliff caves in the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Mustang.