A large group of parents, Common Room and pupils recently enjoyed a fascinating and revealing evening into polar travel thanks to a memorable visit from Caroline Hamilton. Caroline is a record-breaking polar explorer who led the first all-women teams to ski to both the North and the South Poles. Hauling sledges of more than their own body weight, they traveled 700 miles to the South Pole in 2002 and 500 miles to the North Pole in 2000.

 

The audience was enthralled by her spectacular photography and graphic insight to the peculiarities of polar expeditions. With humility and humour she shared some of the more personal aspects of enduring and enjoying these unique polar landscapes.

 

This, the seventh in a series of termly lectures on an adventurous theme, called the Tom Avery Society, will be followed next term by a visit by ‘Brummie’ Stokes. ‘Brummie’ summited Everest in 1976 and has gone onto found and run an adventure centre for the disabled and disadvantaged near Hereford.