James Aldred is an Emmy-award winning documentary cameraman specialising in natural history and filming at height on ropes. He regularly works for the BBC, National Geographic, and Discovery, often with Sir David Attenborough. He is the author of acclaimed book The Man Who Climbs Trees, about which the Times Literary Supplement wrote, "He is that best of things, a romantic realist... clearly a master of his craft, he has the matter of fact tone of true adventurers." James also writes and makes natural history radio programmes.