Jason Ingamells is a very experienced wilderness guide, expedition leader, and storyteller whose life’s work bridges adventure, traditional skills, and deep respect for the natural world. Outside of his professional expertise, Jason is also a passionate advocate for motorcycle travel and the mental health benefits it can bring. With over two decades of hands-on bushcraft and expedition experience, Jason came up with the concept for this expedition whilst conjuring ways of uniting his love of wild places, story telling, and motorbikes.

 

From an early age, Jason was drawn to the outdoors - learning primitive skills, fire-making, shelter building, and tracking long before formal instruction. That passion evolved into a professional path and the founding of Woodland Ways Bushcraft & Survival, now one of Europes most respected Bushcraft & Survival organisations, alongside his charity supporting Tribal Communities, the Woodland Ways Bushcraft Foundation. Through Woodland Ways, Jason has taught and guided thousands of people, helping to reconnect modern lives with ancient knowledge, as well as assisting communities to protect and conserve their cultures.

 

Jason’s field experience spans some of the world’s most challenging and diverse environments. He has worked and travelled in Arctic regions, where cold, efficiency, and resilience define survival; in the dense jungles of Malaysia and the Amazon rainforest, where navigation, resource awareness, and deep ecological understanding are essential; and across the deserts of the Middle East and the Sahara, where heat, water scarcity, and traditional desert living demand patience and humility. Canoe journeys through the boreal zone in Canada and Northern Europe have further inspired his desire for travel by simple means.

 

He feels most at home on the African continent, where he has led teams and undertook personal travel and training in the Bush working alongside indigenous people to really understand the human connection to wild places, and how to operate within them. He has a deep understanding of the Maasai culture after spending decades working and forming friendships within this community, aswell as developing relationships with the Juǀʼhoansi, Berbers, Tuareg, Bedouin, Nguni groups, Samburu and Himba tribes, all of whom have a deep connection to their immediate environments.

 

This, coupled with his time with the Sami reindeer herders, the Tatuyu, the Iban aswell as a global network of wilderness bushcraft instructors and many more influences worldwide has provided Jason with an almost unique skill set and world view. He began to realise that bringing all of these stories of peoples across the world together into one place was his purpose and so the concept of Tracks and Traditions was born.

 

Across these extremes - frozen, tropical, boreal and arid - his approach remains consistent: observe, move lightly, and learn from the land and the people who know it best. What better way to do this than to bring an audio visual story together from the back of a motorbike.

 

Central to Jason’s work is long-term engagement with indigenous and traditional cultures, learning not only technical skills but the philosophies that underpin them — how people relate to landscape, wildlife, community, and time itself. These experiences have profoundly shaped the ethos of Tracks & Traditions: that the most valuable human knowledge is often carried through lived practice, oral tradition, and deep connection to place. In a world full of perceived danger and mistrust, Jason wants to develop and communicate a different narrative of love, shared interest, and global understanding.

 

Tracks & Traditions represents the belief that indigenous knowledge holders are key to a  continuous journey, rooted in curiosity, respect, and the belief that understanding our past is essential to navigating our future.

 

Jason is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and member of the Scientific Exploration Society.