Crawford "Chill" Hill

Crawford Hill is the owner and director of Chill Expeditions, an educational travel company focused on cultural immersion. Hill has been guiding students and adults on wilderness adventures since 1974, when he started a business in college, guiding climbing and backpacking expeditions in the Alps. Over the years, Hill has led thousands of students and families on experiential learning trips to Costa Rica, Belize, the Galapagos Islands, Peru and Spain. His unique “Story Approach” and “Expedition Mentality” philosophies, which have infused all his teaching and travel leadership, serve to further differentiate the Chill Expeditions experience. Hill brings to Chill Expeditions combined experience as an expedition leader, biologist and educational innovator.

Hill’s interest in wilderness adventure and environmental conservation was stimulated by family backpacking trips in the sixties along much of the Appalachian, John Muir and Pacific Crest Trails, with his father and later his six siblings and mother. He continued with climbing expeditions to California, British Columbia, Alaska, the Alps and Norway. When he summited Denali (Mt. McKinley, 20,300') in July of 1971, he was the youngest to have done so. Today, Hill revels in the opportunity to be able to work with students and families across the country with the world as his classroom.