Jack Shroder has more than half a century of experience mapping landforms and studying mass-movement processes worldwide, along with big glaciers. He concentrated on the Himalaya as well as the Rocky Mountains, where he now resides with his wife, Suzie Nye, in Crested Butte, Colorado. With 62 books written or edited by him, along with over 170 scientific articles in journals, books, and encyclopedias, and 69 consulting geology reports, Shroder spent his career as a college professor providing the public with the best available science about the Earth.