Adelle is a photo-journalist, overland 4x4 expedition guide, magazine editor and guide book author who loves adventuring. She’s been tracking with Bushmen in the Kalahari, had dinner in the Saharan dunes with the governor of Timbuktu, been caving in Borneo, diving with five-metre whale sharks, chewed qat in Yemen, and abseiled off Table Mountain.
Recent projects include sailing with Mike Horn's Pangaea expedition around Borneo, tour-guiding on a motor yacht in the Gambia, and two motoring expeditions, driving from China to Cape Town, and from Timbuktu to Table Mountain.

Favourite places are Sipadan off Borneo, Lake Malawi's islands, Botswana’s Okavango Delta, the mountains of northern Pakistan, anywhere in New York City, and definitely her home, Cape Town.

Hein is an ex Special Forces Soldier, who worked and traveled all over the African Continent for the past 30 years, more often than not living in extreme circumstances with little resources to the civilized world, making him a self-taught survivalist.

Hein produced and acted in his own Survival Reality Series “Woes” on South African Television, about African survival techniques, and is working on the follow up series. He currently teaches survival classes all over South Africa and has just completed his first book, “African Survival”, about the most useful and functional survival techniques to get you out of the most hazardous and extreme situations in the African continent. He is currently also busy writing a manual for the Special Forces.

Neil qualified in 1983 with a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies. He worked until 1993 in both hospitals and private practice, specialising in the field of stress and anxiety management. He also consulted to sports people in the field of performance enhancement.

Since 1993, Neil's field of consulting and facilitating has included optimising emotional fitness and stress resilience, optimising the effectiveness of teams, advisory and consulting services to companies relating to the design and strategic implementation of health and wellness programmes in the workplace and much more.

Neil has a particular talent in translating his expertise and experience in very engaging, entertaining and impactful presentations to both public and corporate audiences. This has made him an increasingly popular choice as a speaker on a variety of public and corporate forums.