Results tagged “Explorer”

She's rowed across two oceans and run through the Sahara but adventurer Elin Haf Davies has a shorter journey to look forward tomorrow.

Elin, who works for the European Medicines Agency in Canary Wharf, will be at Buckingham Palace to meet The Queen, as well as rubbing shoulders with explorers like Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

AN AMATEUR adventurer from a Wharf ad agency is set to make history by becoming the first black Briton to reach the North Pole.

John Thompson, a production manager from OgilvyOne, plans to walk and ski to the Pole in April, crossing 75 miles of unmarked ice in temperatures plunging to minus 40 degrees.

Known records fail to show a black Brit completing the gruelling journey, and John, who served in the army before coming to Canary Wharf seven years ago, is hoping to be the first.