Catlin Arctic Survey - Pen Hadow event - 21st September

Pen Hadow event - 21st SeptemberOn Monday 21st September one of the UK’s highest profile polar explorers came to speak in the Hill & Knowlton bar about his adventure on the Catlin Arctic Survey expedition. The 2009 Catlin Arctic Survey was a major scientific expedition to measure the thickness of the Arctic sea ice. The survey’s ultimate aim was to better understand the global warming impact of the Arctic Ocean and its melting sea ice cover.  The ‘ice team’ travelled on foot, each member hauling sledges weighing 100kg, across 1200-km of disintegrating and shifting sea ice, in temperatures from 0ºC down to -50°C. Pen Hadow, leader of the ice team and director of the Catlin Arctic Survey, is one of the UK’s highest-profile polar explorers. In 2003 he became the first person to trek solo, without outside assistance, from Canada to the North Geographic Pole.               Photography: Martin Hartley, www.martinhartley.com “The Catlin Arctic Survey seeks to have a discernable effect on increasing climate change awareness across the world and has the potential to make a lasting difference to policy-relevant science.” Dr Neil T.M. Hamilton – Director, WWF International Arctic Programme