Explorers
Explorers are by nature curious individuals who want to see things and experience things completely different to their normal environment. They are willing, literally to go to the ends of the earth in a quest for knowledge as well as testing their own abilities to get to their destination.
Some explorers have sought the polar regions as a destination to test their mental and physical strengthens. Others have ascended the highest and most treacherous mountains in the world, while some have delved into the deepest rain forests, jungles and oceans.
Explorers are not all rough tough hairy chested men. Increasingly women are becoming explorers and competing with men on an equal setting. Amy Beeton and Bonita Norris are prime example of women that you would pass in the street, and have no clue as to their exploration credentials.
What drives people to explore both the extremes of the planet, but also the limits of their mental and physical abilities, will be different for each person, but all share a passion for taking on a challenge and testing themselves in abnormal situations and strange environments. Gain an insight into their world by booking an explorer for your next event!
Alan Chambers
During 16 years service with Her Majesty's Royal Marine Commandos Alan operated in in the deserts, jungles and frozen tundra’s of the planet, travelling the world visiting over forty countries. He is formally qualified as a diver, parachutist, paramedic and ski survival instructor. More men have walked on the moon than walked to the North Pole unsupported.
Amy Beeton
Amy takes her audiences into some of the most hostile places on earth-and out again the other side. Journey with her through the raw reality of climbing in the dark at -45 C; battling 150 mph winds in the Death Zone; being trapped in a snow hole without food or fuel, and staying awake for six days and nights through sheer determination to stay alive.
Ania Lichota
Ania Lichota was raised in Poland during the communist era. In her childhood she sold tomatoes, and other family farm produce, in a market. She later worked as an accountant in her father's shipping business, and by the age of eighteen she had set up her own metals trading and small appliances import company. Ania could not hold a passport until she was aged eight, but since then her passion for travelling has taken her to sixty countries around the world.
Ann Daniels
World record breaking polar explorer Ann Daniels is an inspiration to those who hear her speak. Her warmth and honesty make her presentations compelling and her positivity, grit and determination illustrate what can be achieved by the many and not the few. Ann is one of the world's leading female polar explorers, and was part of the first British all women's team to walk to the South Pole and the world's first all women's team to walk to both poles.
Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls is one of the best known young adventurers in the world. At just 23 years old, he became The Youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest. In August 2003, he led the first crew to cross the Atlantic via the Arctic Circle in an open rigid inflatable boat. His television debut was on Ch 4's, ‘Escape to The Legion' and his latest series, ‘Born Survivor' for Ch 4 and Discovery USA.
Benedict Allen
Benedict Allen is often described as "television's most fearless man"! Benedict is an extremely popular after-dinner and motivational speaker. His exceptional talent for applying his pioneering expeditions to the corporate ‘jungle' ensures an enthralling, entertaining and inspirational experience for any size of audience.
Bonita Norris
Bonita Norris holds two mountaineering records. In the autumn of 2009 she became the youngest woman in history to reach the false summit of Mt Manaslu in the Himalayas, the world's eighth highest mountain, at 8163m.
Bonita's first experience of high altitude mountaineering meant negotiating a crevasse field over a mile long, avalanche prone slopes, steep sections of blue ice and walls of near vertical ice and snow.
Cathy O'Dowd
Cathy O'Dowd is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, from both its north and south sides. She remains an active adventurer, dog-sledding in the remote wilderness of the Norwegian Arctic, tackling the sheer rock walls of Yosemite, skiing untracked snow in the Alps.
David Lim
David Lim, is best known in Singapore for leading the 1st Singapore Mt Everest Expedition in 1998 which succeeded in placing two members on the summit. The climb captured the imagination of the entire country and helped reset the parameters of what could be achieved by the small, flat, tropical island nation. A week after his return from Everest, he was totally paralysed by the rare nerve disorder Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
Jason De Carteret
Jason De Carteret is an Antarctic World Record holder and is an experienced Polar guide having skied to the both the North and South Pole four times each. In 2007 he and another attempted to break another world record for the fastest ski to the South Pole but unfortunately Jason tore a calf muscle and had to be airlifted off the ice.
AFTER DINNER SPEAKERS
BUSINESS SPEAKERS
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
HOSTS & PRESENTERS
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS
Featured Speaker
Conrad Humphreys
Conrad Humphreys is an inspirational team leader and world-class British yachtsman, as well as a renowned personality in the south-west and on the international sailing scene. At 35, Conrad has already crammed a lifetime of adventure and achievement into his life enduring some of the most hostile oceans of the world.
Videos
SPEAKERS VIDEO
Rasmus Ankersen
Rasmus Ankersen - The Gold Mine Effect
Amazing Norvil
Amazing Norvil & Josephine is a theatrical and entertaining world-class illusion act also featuring singing and acrobatics.
Keynote Speaker
Wolfgang Riebe - Keynote Speech
