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Benjamin Mee is the man behind the story ‘We Bought a Zoo’ - the U.S. blockbuster movie, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. Seize this opportunity to have storyteller extraordinaire Benjamin Mee at your event.
With the 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony taking place on Friday 27th July, there is no better time to book an Olympian to present a keynote speech at your event.
Former England Rugby player & Dancing on Ice Winner Kyran Bracken MBE fronts EBLEX/Red Tractor Beef and Lamb campaign.
Karren Brady has been crowned “Most Inspirational Celebrity” at the 2011 Inspiration Awards for Women, a charity event which raises awareness and funds for Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
James Poole and Gordon Poole interviewed for Radio 4’s ‘Raise Your Glasses – A History of After Dinner Speaking’ presented by Arthur Smith.
Mark Koybashi-Hillary has been chosen to be a BT Storyteller at the London 2012 Olympic games. He will blog during the run-up to the games and will be there in person to blog events live as they happen. He will be joined by other storytellers, including Simon Le Bon, Professor Brian Cox and Emma Freud.
Former Politician and ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Ann Widdecombe launched a campaign from the charity Action on Hearing Loss, supported by BT, to encourage people to get their hearing checked.
David Hempleman-Adams - Britain's Greatest Living Adventurer. Motivational, Teamwork and Leadership Speaker.
David Hempleman-Adams' interest in expedition began with the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, for which he holds a Gold medal. He is an accomplished mountaineer, having climbed the seven highest peaks of the seven continents, i.e. Everest (Nepal), Mt Vinson (Antarctica), Aconcagua (Argentina), Carstenz Pyramid (Indonesia), Elbrus (Russia) and Kilimanjaro (Tanzania).
David Hempleman-Adams was a member of the team, which in 1981 achieved one of the fastest ascents of Mt McKinley (Alaska). In 1983 he attempted a solo expedition to the Geographical North Pole. The attempt failed when, after 230 miles, he cracked several ribs and had to watch his food supplies dwindle whilst sitting out a severe ten-day storm.
In 1984 he was the first person to successfully complete a solo expedition to the Magnetic North Pole without the support of dogs, snow mobiles or air supplies. Then in 1992 he led the first team to walk unsupported to the Geomagnetic North Pole.
On January 5 1996 David Hempleman-Adams became the first Briton to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole. And later, on February 19, he sailed to the South Magnetic Pole, becoming the first person to achieve both South Poles in the same year.
On May 15 1996 he led the Ultimate Challenge, a team of novices, to ski to the Magnetic North Pole, gaining some notable firsts. Thus, he became the only person ever to reach both North and South Magnetic Poles in one year.
In early March 1998 David set off on a 600 mile journey which would place him in the record books as one of the most successful all-round adventurers the world has ever seen. Facing wind-chill down to minus 90 centigrade, he man-hauled his sledge to the North Pole across the constantly shifting ice of the frozen Arctic Ocean.
His success ended a 15-year odyssey and placed him in the history record books as the first person to complete the Explorers' Grand Slam, a challenge which has seen him conquer the North and South Magnetic Poles, become the first Briton to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole; and walk solo to the North Geographic Pole and scale the highest mountain in each of the seven continents, including Everest.
In 1998 David Hempleman-Adams turned to ballooning. In December, with only 30 hours of flying experience, David flew across the Andes. He took off in the Typhoo Challenger hot air balloon, with open wicker basket, from a polo field in Chile. The balloon rose to more than 32,000 ft before catching westerly winds that blew it across the inhospitable craggy peaks into Argentina - the total journey lasted 5½ hours.
On 1 June 2000 David became the only pilot to fly a balloon to the North Pole. He set a number of ballooning records, including longest solo flight by a British balloonist at 132 hours; distance record for the Arctic at 1400 kms to the North Pole ring and 2451 km total; first balloonist to fly solo to the North Pole and first balloonist to fly solo across the Arctic Ocean.
An attempt had been made in 1897 to reach the North Pole by the Swedish explorer Salomon Andrée but it ended in disaster when the balloon was forced to crash land on the ice. After his own terrifying landing on the ice, David said, "In a lifetime of adventure, I've never known such an experience. If I had known what I was going to put myself through before embarking on this trip, I might have thought twice about it."
On April 6th 2003, David Hempleman-Adams became the first person to ski, solo and unsupported to the Geomagnetic North Pole. The daring journey involved dragging a Kevlar sledge, weighed down with over 100 lbs of equipment and supplies, for nearly 300 miles. David had to use all his mountaineering skills to climb and abseil the hazardous icy terrain. With this, his latest success in a long line of record achievements, he marked the 20th Anniversary of his exploring career.
On September 29th, 2003 battling against cold, sleep deprivation, the shock of Concorde’s sonic boom severely jilting the basket and snow and hail storms at 14,500 feet over the Irish Sea, David became the first person to fly a balloon solo with an open wicker-basket across the Atlantic from Canada to the United Kingdom. The daring feat was his third attempt (his first two attempts were thwarted by technical glitches and poor weather conditions) to achieve his dream of a low-tech ‘Jules Verne’ style Atlantic balloon crossing.
In recognition of this great fete, The Explores Club of New York awarded David The Explorers Medal, the clubs highest honour, at their Centennial Dinner on March 20th, 2004. At 6.36 on the 23rd March 2004, David Hempleman-Adams took off from Denver, Colorado in the same balloon he had used to cross the Atlantic, this time in an attempt to beat the altitude record. 3 ½ hours later he landed in a field 100 miles away having reached a height of 41,198 feet, smashing the existing record by 6000 feet. David was, again, in his open basket, breathing through an oxygen mask and bundled up against temperatures as low as minus 75 degrees. In 2010, David came 3rd in The Gordon Bennett Balloon Race.
Speaking:
Without his motivational and team building skills… David Hempleman-Adams would be dead!
A highly enjoyable and informative talk to inspire you and your team... With his personal experience in the workplace and the synergy of team building and working towards goals either in the marketplace or on mountains, he can tailor his talks and slide show to each individual presentation.