‘The Thinking Man’s Explorer’ Pen Hadow will be giving a lecture in aid of the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge, on Saturday (November 14th).
‘The Thinking Man’s Explorer’ Pen Hadow will be giving a lecture in aid of the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge, on Saturday (November 14th).
In May 2003, after 15 years, three attempts and an exceptional degree of commitment Pen became the first person to complete one of the last great polar challenges – to trek solo, without re-supply, from Canada to the North Geographic Pole.
His lecture will focus on the complications of his most recent expedition the Catlin Arctic Survey, a three month pioneering scientific expedition to help determine the lifespan of the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice cover.
The lecture will be given in the School of Chemistry, BMS Lecture Theatre at 5pm on Saturday, 14 November (doors open 4:30pm).
The expedition, which is backed by the Prince of Wales, will supply the raw data to scientific organisations to analyse including the University of Cambridge, Nasa and the US Navy.
Hadow's findings will then be taken to the national negotiating teams working to replace the Kyoto Protocol agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Hadow has more experience than most of the Arctic sea ice, and he has watched with dismay the changes taking place there over the past two decades. The result is that Pen has now become a leading exponent on the need for change, with a genuine first hand view of what has been going on at the ends of the earth.
Hadow believes that “exploration is entering a new phase. We have never been better prepared to benefit the global community”.
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