Chris Kostman learned photography as a child from his father, Wayne Kostman, primarily during a pair of one-year-long sabbaticals in Europe and North Africa in 1970-1971 and 1980-1981. He discovered his passion for cycling and endurance sports in 1982 and so it was natural for him to merge his two favorite pursuits and interests.

Chris has published over 250 articles about endurance sports, travel, archaeology, and adventure. He is trained and educated as an archaeologist and works part-time in that field, both undersea and on land in the Middle East and South Asia.

Chris got his start early in ultra sports as both an athlete and an event organizer: He set world ultra cycling records in high school (riding against the clock from San Francisco City Hall to Los Angeles City Hall) and completed the 3127-mile Race Across America bicycle race in less than eleven days at age 20. That was a springboard to competing in events as diverse as the Triple Ironman in France, the 6.5-mile Skaha Lake Ultra Swim in Canada, three 100-mile snowshoe races in Alaska, six Ironman Triathlons, an Ultraman-distance triathlon stage race in Vermont, the Boston Marathon, and many other endurance races. This led to a career producing some of the toughest endurance events available through his company, AdventureCORPS®, Inc.

Hand in hand with his athletic career, Chris has been producing some of the toughest endurance events on the planet since 1984 through his company, AdventureCORPS, Inc. Hosted in Death Valley, on the slopes of Mt. Whitney and Palomar Mountain, on the beaches of North Carolina, in Nepal, China, Armenia, and beyond, Chris has now produced well over 150 endurance sports events. These include the world-famous Badwater 135 Ultramarathon and its sister events, Badwater Salton Sea and Badwater Cape Fear. Chris also produced and directed the venerable Furnace Creek 508 bicycle race from 1990 through 2013, and its sequel, the Silver State 508 bicycle race, from 2014 through 2016. See the AdventureCORPS Flickr gallery here: flickr.com/people/adventurecorps/