Norwegian Jon Amtrup has been sailing and writing for most of his life. He is a journalist and has worked in several different Norwegian newspapers. He also founded and ran two PR companies. 

Jon has sailed the Norwegian coast several times summer and winter, crossed the Atlantic twice, circumnavigated Svalbard, sailed in Greenland and Iceland, and is living on his boat. He has also assisted several high-latitude sailing expeditions, and done several yacht deliveries. He also runs a popular sailing podcast. In 2022 and 2024 he won the Brian Black Memorial Award. In the autumn of 2024, he skippered the Greenpeace sailing yacht Witness on a high latitude science expedition to stop deep-sea mining

He has written High Latitude Sailing: Self-sufficient sailing techniques for cold waters and winter seasons, Sail to Svalbard, and several other books. Jon is co-founder of the environmental ocean non-profit Gate to the Arctic.