What is Tim’s Background?
Tim was born in 1978 and grew up as the eldest of four children in Gippsland Australia. Tim’s father, Andrew, set up the Bachelor of Sport and Outdoor recreation at the Gippsland campus of Monash University. Growing up with a father so heavily into the outdoors, Tim was lucky enough to be introduced to surfing, bushwalking, kayaking and skiing at a young age. Every summer was spent with the family camping on the coast near Wilsons Promontory. Early on Tim dreamed about being an Author or journalist. At sixteen years of age he had his first overseas experience when he travelled to Nepal to trek and raft with a school group. At eighteen, Tim deferred a law degree to take up a GAP exchange program in England where he worked at a children’s adventure camp. Three months into the program he decided to leave, and headed off with a friend on a cheap bicycle to ride around Ireland and Scotland. Later that year he travelled extensively through Eastern Europe including a journey across the former
