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Name: David Hempleman-Adams
Field:
Explorer
Productions:
An Audience With David Hempleman-Adams
Biography: In 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.”
David had already conquered Everest, an ambition since childhood. “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.”
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.
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