Results tagged “North Pole”
Canary Wharf Ice Rink might have melted away but before it disappeared it played a part in helping some polar racers with their training.
Team Icelated, made up of Wharfers Charlotte Byrne and James Davers, are taking part in the Polar Challenge race to the magnetic North Pole in April.
We might have thought it was pretty cold when the snow and ice hit London last month but one Wharfer was experiencing temperatures even more extreme.
Charlotte Byrne was in Norway, where the mercury never rose above -12 degrees celsius and dipped as low as -25 degrees.
As the customers made their way from the North Pole at the end of a busy Friday night, they came face to face with balaclava-clad gunman armed with a silver revolver.
Thomas Scott, hell-bent on revenge after being ejected an hour earlier, sprayed fire at the customers, leaving three injured.
A gunman who opened fire on a crowd of pubgoers in Greenwich has been sent to prison for 17 years, writes Rob Virtue.
Thomas Scott, 29, of Tourmont Road in Plumstead, had been ejected from the North Pole in Greenwich High Road in the incident last February.
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.
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.
