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Kris Van Nest, Host/Executive Producer

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Kris Van Nest
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Kris Van Nest has been actively involved in off-road driving and outdoor adventures since being ranked 1st for Team U.S.A . in Camel Trophy Mongolia '97, the international Camel Trophy competition sponsored by Land Rover. After multiple selection and training events in Georgia, Colorado, and Spain, Kris and his teammate spent over three weeks driving their Land Rover Discovery TDI (turbo diesel models) thousands of miles throughout Mongolia, including the frozen lake Khovsgol in the north to the Gobi desert in the south. The following year, he worked with Land Rover to train and select the U.S. team, and was then hired as one of 10 competition developers who setup the competition route for Camel Trophy Tierra del Fuego '98. The '98 competition work in South America was a two month off-road trip for the competition staff driving Land Rover Defender 110's from Tierra del Fuego to Santiago during July and then back to Tierra del Fuego during August. The route took them over ice-covered roads, snow, desert, and jungle, as they made their way through the multi-climatic zones during South America's winter season.

In addition to the Camel Trophy competitions, Kris is an off-pavement driving consultant for both Jeep and Land Rover. He has worked as a guide and instructor at Camp Jeep in Vail, Colorado, Jeep and Land Rover North America customer events in the Midwest and West, Jeep press introductions in Telluride and Ouray Colorado, and as a driver coordinator for Jeep in filming a commercial in the Glamis sand dunes of Southern California. He has also given many four-wheel drive instructional talks and guided events sponsored by local dealerships and adventure parks in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

To balance his off-road interests, Kris has enrolled in a doctoral program at Columbia University's Teachers College and a broadcast television program at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, both in New York City, New York. At Columbia, he is studying to receive a doctorate in Educational Psychology: Human Cognition & Learning, with a specialization in Intelligent Technologies. His courses at NYU are designed around a Certificate in Broadcasting/Broadcast Production. He focuses many of his class projects on off-road driving or outdoor instruction, and incorporates many of his studies into his consulting.  He received a bachelor of arts in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence and a Master of Science in Educational Technology from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

Before working on Trekken, Kris had previously hosted and produced the local adventure/sports show FREESPORT-TV in the tri-state (NY/NJ/PA) area.

 

 

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