Sorrel is an award-winning adventurer, author, television producer and reporter, writer, photographer and artist.  She is also Fellow of the NY Explorers Club. Career highlights include:

 

EXPEDITIONS 

                                                                          

17,000 kms solo bike ride throughout Asia 1984-1985

3,000 kms solo trek across Tibet 1985

Official photographer Bicentennial Everest Expedition 1988

World's first complete Himalayan traverse (6,500 kms) 1990-1991

Summit Safari - Ascents of all the major peaks in Africa 1993

 

BOOKS

                                                                                                 

Tibet, A Woman's Lone Trek Across a Mysterious Land 1986

Beyond The Icefall (1988 Everest expedition) 1989

Across The Top (Himalayan traverse) 1992

Africa, A Timeless Soul (African climbing expedition) 1995

Images from the Wild Side (photographic book) 1998

Surviving Australia 2001

 

ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS                                                                                                                                          

Wombat and Emu Trekking in Tibet  1989

Wombat and Emu Journey to Japan 1990

Let’s Go Wild! (Natural History series) 2011

 

DOCUMENTARIES/TELEVISION

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• Wrote, narrated and presented the Australian episode

       World At Your Feet -- ABC/Channel 4,1987

• Wrote, Produced, & presented Africa High and Wild - a 3 x 1 hour series co-produced with Beyond International Group and the Learning Channel, and distributed world-wide 1996   

• Presenter, Getaway - a travel show made by TCN Nine,

       Australia. 1996 - 2005

• Bought TVNI (TV station on Norfolk Island) and formed own production Company, Wildside @ Norfolk Pty Ltd 2002

• Produced & Wrote Norfolk Island: A Walk in the Wild  2003

• Produced & presented Inflight videos for Norfolk Air  2004

• Presented Tsunami – One Place Many stories for National Geographic Channel  2005

• Presented Painting Australia series for the ABC  2007

• Produced, directed Tourism Australia’s National Landscape Promo collection (9x 5 minute webisodes)  2008 – 2009

• Produced and Directed “The Great Eastern Ranges”, a film on Conservation Connectivity for the World Headquarters of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)  2008  

• Produced and directed Spirit of the Snowy Mountains

      for Kosciuszko National Park  2008

• Produced and directed 6 x webisodes for Indigenous Tourism Australia’s Indigenous Case Studies  2008

• Produced, Directed & Presented The Best Of Australia

      documentary series (11 x 1 hour episodes) distributed

      world-wide by Beyond International Group  2006 – 2012

• Researcher and script editor for Weapons of the Wild series, for National Geographic Channel  2012

• Researcher and script editor for Faces Only a Mother Could Love series,  National Geographic Channel  2015 – 16

• Developing new projects for Wildbear TV slate  2016 – 2017

• Writing and series producing “World’s Greatest”

       36 x 1 hour series for Wildbear/PBS/TCN Nine,  2017 – 2018

• Wrote 6 x 1 hour series, “Building to the Sky”  2018

• Wrote and directed 6 x 1 hour series, “Bridges” 2019 - 2020

• Wrote the series  “Icons”  for Wildbear TV   2021

 

MAJOR MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS

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Illustrated articles and regular features by Sorrel Wilby have appeared in well over 100 magazines and newspapers throughout the world. Contracts include:

 

Feature Contributor, National Geographic 1987

Feature Contributor, Weekend Australian 1988, 1992

Feature Contributor, The Australian Way 1995-1996

Feature Contributor, 4Wheeler 1995 - 1996

Columnist, Expanse 1997-1998

Editorial Director/Producer, Primetime Pacific Magazine 2014 - 2015

Feature writer & photographer, Australian Geographic 1985-2000

Feature contributor, Signature Magazines  2010 - 2014

 

COPY-WRITING/ SPEECH WRITING 

Major clients include:

World Expeditions, Digicel Fiji, and Digicel Play (PNG), Digicel Caribbean