"We saw a paradise in snowscapes and heard music in the wind, for we were young and on our long exploratory journeys we felt, with the pride of youth, that we were making history."
Sir Wally Herbert, NZ Antarctic Research Expedition, 1960
Owing to the fact that those in closest proximity to me during the expedition will be the astronauts in the ISS, learning from the most competent people in the right places has been an invaluable part of the expedition groundworks.
The past several years have seen a wide range of smaller expeditions - each carrying their own merit - ranging from spontaneous escapades in the craggy Scottish highlands to meticulously planned ventures into the high peaks of Central Asia.
In August 2019 I travelled to the Greenlandic ice cap and completed a 600-kilometre ski traverse from east to west, replicating conditions of that in Antarctica. The following year I skied a 380-kilometre section of the North West Passage in the Canadian High Arctic and in February 2024 I returned from a 3-week solo expedition in Arctic Sweden.
A keen endurance runner also, I have been fortunate to run ultramarathons in North America, Europe and the Sahara Desert.
A collection of footage from expeditions in Greenland and the High Arctic.
Hailing from rural Oxfordshire in England and a mechanical engineer by trade, I have recently spent time working in Germany and the Middle East.
Images courtesy of Martin Hartley, Ian Corless, Gyula Simonyi, and the USGS.