Dan Milner

Dan Milner is mature enough to remember, and be nostalgic about, Sony Walkmans, rigid mountain bikes and red telephone boxes. Most people will know him as a professional photographer whose work has decorated the world’s bike and snow magazines for over two decades. Despite (or maybe because of) growing up in a flat part of the U.K., Dan has sought out adventures in some of the most mountainous corners of the globe. Dan first threw his leg over a mountain bike in 1985 and then over a snowboard five years later. He kicked off his photo vagabond life back in 1989 by immersing himself in a politically tumultuous South and Central America. Ten years later he declared himself a ‘professional adventure photographer’ and never looked back. Armed with this self-empowering label as an excuse for work, he uses the bike and as an excuse to just see new places and as a tool to break down cultural barriers when he gets there. As he says, “If you don’t go, you’ll never know”.

The number crunch

• Cycle toured Argentina and Chile for a year in 1996-97.
• Won Bikemag USA Photo of the Year 2003.
• Pioneered mountain bike expeditions to Afghanistan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho and Lebanon.
• Photographed Jeremy Jones’ Deeper and Further splitboard expeditions to Alaska, Svalbard, Austria and Canada between 2009-2012.
• Shot snowboard photo stories in Pakistan, Turkey, Greenland, Russia, Chile, Morocco, Kyrgyzstan and Kashmir.