Chess Edwards is an adventure travel photographer, wilderness guide and motivational speaker whose captivating work has appeared in a number of travel brochures and magazines, including Newsweek, Escape, Adventure West, Westways, Four Seasons, Fitness and Stateswest. Much of his work concentrates on the rich cultural diversities of foreign lands and is strongly represented by vivid and stirring portraits.

Chess has traveled extensively to some of the most distant and wild regions of the Nepali Himalayas. His adventures have also led to explorations of lost pre-Inca civilizations in the remote Northern Andes of Peru. In 1985 he made his first important solo journey with a two week kayak circumnavigation of Mexico's largest island, Isla Tiburon and has since continued to lead extensive sea kayaking explorations throughout the Sea of Cortez and among the California Gray Whales of Mexico. Chess Edwards' world travels are diverse, inspirational and truly provocative.

One of Chess' current projects is a series of seminars designed to motivate today's young people to face their own unique and difficult challenges and to realize the rewards that await those who are willing to move forward with strength and decisive courage.