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Require a motivational speaker, business speaker, celebrity speaker, after dinner speaker, sports speaker or keynote speaker? Each motivational speaker and after dinner speaker is backed up with state of the art technology that guarantees the best possible fees and ensures that you receive fast and reliable service that can truly be described as legendary!Click here to access a full biography of David Hempleman-AdamsIn 1998, David became the first man in history to reach the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles as well as climb the highest peaks in all seven continents. This incredible ‘grand slam’, which many believed was almost impossible, was completed when, along with Norwegian companion Rune Gjeldnes, David arrived at the North Pole on foot. It all started rather differently. “I had been transformed from a boy from a railway town to a country lad,” he recalls in his autobiography, Toughing It Out. “I loved getting dirty, working hard, and forever being in the fresh country air. My love affair with adventure followed shortly afterwards.” At the age of 13, the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme gave him a first taste of the lifestyle that he would soon adopt. By the age of 16 he had won the gold award and had already conquered a succession of Welsh mountains. On leaving school he took business studies at college in Manchester but spent his spare time learning whatever he could about mountaineering — either through actually climbing or studying the sport. His Geographic North Pole trip of 1983 went wrong when a fall whilst more than 200 miles from his target was to left David with two cracked ribs and the Geographic North Pole, for now, remained unconquered, but he returned almost exactly a year later to attempt to reach the Magnetic North Pole instead. This time an attack by a polar bear and a fall through the ice into freezing waters failed to prevent him reaching his goal. In August, 1993, he finally set off to try to fulfil his boyhood dream. “At precisely 11.38am on 9 October 1993, I clambered on top of Mount Everest and stood there, on the summit of the world, in disbelief... I had three minutes to myself on the snowy mound that represented one of my major goals in life.” At Christmas, 1994, he made it to the top of Mount Vinson in Antarctica. Two months later he had also reached the summit of Mount Aconcagua, the Argentinian mountain that is South America's tallest. David undertook the ascent of the seventh peak in April, 1995. Carstensz Pyramid in Irian Java is Australasia's highest point and a tough rock climb. Having scaled it, David became the third Briton to complete all seven peaks. He received the MBE in the Birthday Honours and, back at home, his wife gave birth to a third daughter, Amelia, but David’s thoughts were already turning to the South Pole. It was 1996 and before January was over he had completed an epic 680-mile solo walk to the Geographic South Pole. Within a month he had also reached the Magnetic South Pole, this time by boat, completing the trip in the only time of the year that it isn’t frozen over. The hat-trick was completed in May when he led the Ultimate Challenge team to the Magnetic North Pole. The only remaining goal in the grand slam still to be reached was the Geographic North Pole and preparations began for the 496-mile walk. Setting off in March 1997, David and companion Rune Gjeldnes were held up when they saved the life of fellow explorer Alan Bywater who had fallen through the ice. But it was a damaged sled that finally put paid to the attempt, the pair refusing to allow another sled to be airlifted out as the trip was meant to be unsupported. The job would have to wait for 1998 before it would be completed. Even a fall through the ice – this time it was David's life that was saved, by Rune – could not prevent David Hempleman-Adams writing his name in the history books as he finally made it to the pole, and shortly after returning he was awarded the OBE to add to his MBE. On 11 December 1998 David Hempleman-Adams carved is name in history yet again when he became the first person to balloon over the Andes. Speakers-uk.com are the UK’s pre-eminent source for motivational speakers for all occasions. On engaging a motivational speaker, or business speaker or keynote speakers, you will receive a full briefing pack with some key information and advice on making sure your occasion really is memorable. Just some of the refreshing differences about Speakers-UK.com that causes our clients to return to us for all their speaking needs and thus allows us to deliver an even better service to them year in year out. Enjoy browsing the site to see just a small selection of motivational speakers. |
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