Gus Roxburgh
Gus has enjoyed a wide-ranging career in the media for over 10 years. Originally an award-winning freelance writer, Gus branched into television in the late 1990’s – initially as a camera operator and production manager. Since then he’s added presenting, directing and producing to his repetoire. Jack of all trades or multi-tasking genius? You be the judge!
Gus’ first job was for National Geographic Television doing 24-hour legs as a ‘terrier’ camera operator following the Southern Traverse Adventure Race, known as the toughest race on Earth, through New Zealand’s rugged Fiordland mountains. Since then Gus has worked on many assignments including documentaries, commercials, reality shows, and corporate or educational projects.
With an extensive outdoor background including 10 years heliski guiding in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, a penchant for travel and a Masters degree in Environmental Management he is ideally suited to working on the projects with an adventure, environmental or travel component that he specialises in. Plus he likes filling his passport with interesting looking stamps.
Being willing to give pretty much anything a go has led Gus into many interesting scenarios. He’s travelled 16,000 miles around the US without using gas for a Discovery Science travel series. In the course of his presenting work he’s had to fire walk, feed lions by hand, sit in a tank of icy water for an experiment on hypothermia, experience the effects of exercise at high altitude to illustrate oxygen depletion and been hypnotised and tested for pain tolerance. Not that it’s all been hard work! “Many of the things I’ve done I would gladly have paid for – like gliding over the Southern Alps, flying a 737 Flight Simulator, freediving in Sardinia, jumping off Auckland’s Sky Tower or paragliding above the West Coast.”
His work has taken him from Antarctica to Alaska and many places in between and with his unique set of production skills he is equally comfortable behind or in front of the camera.
