Jack McDonald is an Emmy Award-winning writer and director of documentary Films for National Geographic Explorer, Discovery, TLC and PBS. His films include “West Point” a PBS special, “Legendary Lighthouses of Hawaii for
Oregon Public Television and PBS, “Tornado of the Century” for the Discovery Channel, “Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson” for PBS. For the Learning Channel he wrote "Great Palaces of the World", for NOVA/WGBH he wrote and co-produced “Avalanche!” For the Discovery Channel he wrote a 13-part series “The Himalaya” and for National Geographic Explorer he has written more than a dozen programs including “Surviving Everest” which received the 1994 Emmy Award for Best Historical Segment. Jack has been teaching this class for six seasons with
high praise from his students.