Peter Hillary.

Polar Explorer Ann Daniels is a world record holder and one of Britain’s leading explorers. Starting out as a mother of young triplets and without any outdoor experience, pure hard work and belief led her to being selected from over 200 more exper...

With three decades of experience as a journalist, CBC Radio host David Gray has filed stories from around the world, focusing on Europe and North America. Based in Calgary, David is an avid adventurer, diver, skier, and cyclist. David, a Fellow of...

George Kourounis has a passion for the Earth’s extremes. He is an explorer, storm chaser, TV host, and Explorer-In-Residence for the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. He specializes in documenting forces of nature, extreme weather, in wild, rem...

John Geiger is CEO of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and an internationally bestselling author of seven books, including Frozen In Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, and Chapel of...

Jill Heinerth is one of the world’s premier underwater explorers, and the first person to dive inside iceberg caves. An acclaimed polar explorer, cave diver, author, speaker, filmmaker, and climate advocate, Jill is the first Explorer-in-Residence...

Bear Grylls is probably the most recognisable face of adventure on the planet. The former 21 SAS soldier was one of the youngest ever climbers of Mt Everest, despite breaking his back in a free-fall accident only months earlier.

Joseph Frey is an accomplished science writer who has participated in numerous expeditions including the discovery of Sir John Franklin’s flagship HMS Erebus in Canada’s Northwest Passage.

Adrian Hayes is a British record-breaking adventurer, author, keynote speaker, business coach, documentary presenter and sustainability campaigner.

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers MBE led the first successful British unsupported expedition from Canada

Caroline Hamilton is a record-breaking polar explorer and a successful businesswoman. She is part of the first all-women team to ski to both the North and South Poles. Hauling sledges more than her own bodyweight, she travelled 500 miles to the No...

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Felicity is a Polar Scientist turned explorer. In 2012 she became the first woman to ski alone across the Antarctic, entering her in the Guinness Book of World Records. Felicity has also created and led record-breaking ski expeditions to the North...

Born in the Falkland Islands, Mensun Bound was the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford, and the director of the first academic unit for underwater archaeology in England.  Known as the ‘Indiana Jones of the Deep’, B...

Preet Chandi, known as Polar Preet, broke two Guinness World Records in January 2023, for both the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski journey for a woman, and the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski journey overall, spending a total...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes – acknowledged as the ‘World’s Greatest Living Explorer’ by the Guinness Book of Records – will headline an engaging series of lectures; he will be sharing personal insights of his adventures and notable expeditions as Queen El...