Our Story
The City Foodsters
Every country. Every summit. Both poles.
One life, lived without borders.
Every country. Every summit. Both poles.
One life, lived without borders.
We're Jason and Grace. In August 2016, we walked away from our careers in San Francisco and set out to accomplish something no couple had done before: visit every country on Earth, summit the highest peak on each continent, and stand at both the North and South Poles. What started as a leap of faith has become a decade-long odyssey spanning nearly every corner of the planet. Along the way, we have slept on glaciers and in palatial ryokans, crossed war zones and coral atolls, fasted with monks and feasted at three-star tables. This is not a sabbatical. This is our life.
Jason is a former Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur. After stints at Microsoft and Google he founded Munch On Me (acquired in 2012) and Caviar (acquired in 2014), then walked away from the corporate world two years later to pursue one of the most ambitious travel quests on the planet: visiting all 193 UN-recognized countries, summiting the Seven Summits, and reaching both the North and South Poles.
He has since climbed all seven of the world's highest continental peaks. The journey began with Kilimanjaro in 2018, spotted from a safari lodge in Kenya a year earlier when a quiet promise turned into a seven-year obsession. Aconcagua and Elbrus fell within thirteen months. After the pandemic, he and Grace picked back up with Vinson in Antarctica and Denali in Alaska, back to back in 2022. Carstensz Pyramid in Papua followed when the region finally reopened after years of closure. And then came Everest, the mountain that started as an impossible dream and ended with them standing at 8,849 meters in a whiteout on May 21, 2025.
Beyond the summits, Jason has stood at the South Pole, witnessed the thundering Great Migration across the African savanna, camped among the otherworldly dragon blood trees of Yemen's Socotra archipelago, and joined 450 million pilgrims at India's Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering in human history. He has crossed conflict zones, navigated bureaucratic labyrinths for visas to countries most people will never hear of, and found beauty in places the world has largely forgotten.
Drawing from nearly a decade of pushing both professional and geographical boundaries, Jason now focuses on helping others break free from conventional travel. He guides aspiring adventurers in crafting journeys that venture far beyond typical tourist circuits, sharing insights gained from his own transformation from tech executive to full-time world explorer.
Grace is the visionary photographer and creative force behind City Foodsters. A former dentist practicing in San Francisco, she traded the precision of restorative work for the precision of a camera lens and never looked back. Since 2016, her photography has documented one of the most extraordinary travel journeys in modern history, capturing not just landscapes and landmarks, but the raw, unguarded moments that make each place unforgettable.
Her eye is what sets City Foodsters apart. Grace approaches every destination the way she once approached her craft in dentistry: with meticulous attention to detail, an unwavering standard of excellence, and the patience to wait for the perfect result. Whether she is shooting the first light breaking over Everest Base Camp, the neon-lit back alleys of Tokyo, or the quietly devastating beauty of an empty church in rural Ethiopia, her images carry a weight and intimacy that transport viewers into the scene.
Grace has photographed on all seven continents, in conditions ranging from the minus-50-degree winds of Antarctica's Vinson Massif to the equatorial humidity of the Papuan jungle en route to Carstensz Pyramid. She has hauled camera gear up the Khumbu Icefall, through the driest deserts on Earth, and across ocean crossings that would test the most seasoned travelers. The work is always worth the weight.
As much an adventurer as she is an artist, Grace has summited alongside Jason on every peak, making her one of a rare few women to have completed the Seven Summits. She approaches each expedition not as a passenger but as a full climbing partner, shouldering the same risks and the same exhaustion while simultaneously creating the visual record of their journey. Her courage on the mountain is matched only by her creative instinct behind the camera.
