Pen Hadow combines a business background, and exceptional team leadership experience, with recent, world class, ground-breaking achievements in the Arctic and Antarctic.

In May 2003, Pen was catapulted to international fame when he became the first person in history to sledge alone from Canada to the North Geographic Pole without any outside help - a feat of endurance thought to be harder than climbing Everest solo, without oxygen. It had taken him three attempts and fifteen years' dedication to achieve his goal.

Pen set up The Polar Travel Company and he famously empowered a group of allegedly 'ordinary' women to walk into The Guinness Book of Records, by initiating, selecting, organising, and largely funding the first ever All Women expedition to the North Geographic Pole.

Through The Polar Travel Company, the only specialist guide service of its kind in the world, he dedicated himself single-handedly, to opening up the Arctic and Antarctic to everyone. He even enabled a child with cerebral palsey to fly to the North Pole, and empowered a muscular dystophry sufferer to cover the last 100 metres there.

2004 saw Pen guide 63 year old international businessman Simon Murray to the South Pole, thereby enabling him to become the oldest person by a decade ever to walk to the Pole, while Pen became the first Briton to trek without resupply to both Poles.

These days Pen Hadow is very involved in the global climate change debate, and he will publicly launch an innovative 'light green' travel initiative, as well as fronting a supplement in the Sunday Times focusing on global warming.

Now a firmly established figure on the public speaking circuit. His audiences are regulalry moved to tears, or standing ovations, or both!

For anything else you need to know about Pen Haddow before booking him, please visit his web site at www.penhadow.co.uk

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