Marshall Corwin Inspirational, Emmy award-winning director takes British 12-15 year olds to some of the most extreme and spectacular locations on Earth including Guyana
Marshall grew up in Leeds and, after reading maths at Oxford University, he taught in a large Comprehensive school. He began his broad casting career in BBC Radio as a recording engineer, soon becoming a radio producer, presenter, and Radio 4 announcer.
The young people chosen from school across Britain from an initial 8000 applicants sailed the Caribbean sea in a traditional schooner, climbed Mount Rorima in the Venezuela National Park, trained in jungle survival with the Makushi tribe in Guyana, travelled down the Bora Bora river in traditional dug out canoes and finally took a jungle trek to the impressive Kaieteur Falls.
The children broke a number of records on their trip. They were the youngest group to climb Mount Rorima, canoe the Bora Bora River and reach the Kaieteur falls, not to mention abseil off it. All this was following in the steps of Sir Walter Raleigh and although Josh reached the fabled site of El Dorado , he unfortunately did not find gold!