Hello. I’m Captain Antarctica.
I spent most of my early life teaching survival in the far corners of the Earth and then after my time in the Australian Army’s Special Forces I became an Anthropologist (someone who studies people – usually tribal people).
In 1995 I was a guest of the Swedish government, invited to teach survival in the Arctic at the First International Survival Symposium at Jukkasjarvi, Northern Sweden. There I fell in love with the polar regions of our world. Standing on my skis on a frozen river, 200km north of the Arctic circle, I thought to myself that in another life I would have chosen to be a Polar explorer.
There is something about the vastness and the quiet of the Poles that speaks to our souls. At night sitting in the arctic wilderness in front of a fire with my survival mate, Ray Mears, we sipped pine needle tea and chatted under the glow of the Aurora Borealis. It doesn’t get much better than that.
I returned to Australia, not known for its polar weather, and read everything I could about the Arctic and the Antarctic and then I went to Antarctica, to the Ross Ice Shelf. I decided to share what I learnt about Antarctica with other people in the hope that I can inspire the same love for the polar regions and our planet that I feel.
So welcome to Continent 7 – Antarctica
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