Results tagged “Arctic”

For many people holiday snaps are briefly glanced at then thrust into a drawer and never looked at again.

But one Wharfer has taken the step of collating his photographs, along with his experiences, of over 20 years of globetrotting into a book.

Fed up with life stuck behind a desk or finding the hot weather too much to cope with already?

Well, Limehouse resident Charlotte Byrne is leaving London behind to trek to the magnetic North Pole next April - and she needs another team-mate to join her.

SOME people will go to any lengths to escape from the financial meltdown.

One Wharfer is getting away from it by trekking to the Geomagnetic North Pole to help study a different kind of meltdown - that of the polar ice cap.

But Blackwall resident Pauline Southam will also be making history. Not only will the 50-year-old become part of the first all-female team to make the 300 mile trek, she will also become the oldest woman to achieve the feat.