Hank Leukart is a Los Angeles-based television producer and writer. Hank writes a popular online travelogue, Without Baggage, which was nominated as one of the Internet's top five travel blogs in the Ninth Annual Weblog Awards (the 2009 Bloggies). Hank has worked as a producer on a variety of adventure-travel television shows for ABC, CBS, Discovery Channel, TLC, and History Channel. Most recently, he raced across Morocco with a camera working as a producer for ABC's "Expedition Impossible."

An adventure-travel enthusiast, Hank has traveled to over 130 cities in over 25 countries while writing Without Baggage. His recent trips have included boating down the Congo River, trekking to Nepal's Everest Base Camp, cycling through Vietnam, snowshoeing the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim, packrafting Alaska's Denali, and backpacking in Chilean Patagonia.