Award-winning filmmaker, lecturer and journalist Mike Shiley, has been to the most dangerous places in the world.

He lived in and traveled through the Middle East, covered wars in Iraq and Kosovo, the tsunami in SE Asia and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

An avid world adventure traveler, Mike has visited 38 countries.

He has trekked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, completed a 3,000-mile solo bicycle trip from Canada to Mexico, climbed 14 mountains in the Pacific Northwest and is a ski instructor for the handicapped.

An accomplished scuba diver and a certified dive master, he has guided over 250 dives in the Red Sea in Egypt.

Mike has produced six feature length documentary films.

His last two films have been official selections in over 40 film festivals and won Best Documentary awards five times.

The Smithsonian Institute selected Shiley’s new film, Dark Water Rising, to be a part of its permanent collection on Hurricane Katrina.

Mike has spoken and shown his films 500 times in 35 states and seven countries.