About Staff
The staff traveling with us includes Michael Melford, popular National Geographic photographer, who has produced twelve feature stories for National Geographic magazine and more than thirty for National Geographic Traveler magazine; Greg McGruder, who oversees many of the programs at National Geographic that give the public a chance to have a live experience with the adventure of geography; Alexander Murphy, senior vice president of the American Geographical Society, and professor of geography at the University of Oregon; Paula Swart, an expert on Asian culture and history, and a museum curator for more than twenty years; Shan Liu, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital; Carsten Stehr, a fifteen year veteran of expedition travel; Ester Pereira, a thirty year veteran of expedition travel; and Joe Razim, the Assistant Expedition Leader.