BenSaunders.com Personal blog of Ben Suanders focused on travel and expeditions
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Ben Saunders | Adventurer, Athlete, Motivational Speaker
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Ben Saunders is a record-breaking long-distance skier, with three North Pole expeditions under his belt. He is the youngest person ever to ski solo to the North Pole and holds the record for the longest solo Arctic journey by a Briton. Between 2001 and 2004, Ben has skied more than 2,000km (1,250 miles) in the high Arctic. Not one to rest on his laurels, Ben has another groundbreaking polar expedition lined up for 2006.
Born in 1977, Ben grew up in Devon, was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and currently lives in London. He is passionate about the great outdoors and spent four months walking and climbing in the Nepalese Himalayas aged 19, going on to work as an instructor at the John Ridgway School of Adventure in the Scottish Highlands (once billed as 'the UK's toughest management training school'). John was (and is) a role model and mentor of the highest calibre - in 1966 he and Chay Blyth rowed the Atlantic in an open boat, and John went on to break records in non-stop round the world sailing.
John's wife, Marie-Christine, remembers a nineteen year-old Ben asking her to photocopy the 'Antarctica' pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 'That's where it all started', says Ben, 'I blame it all on John'.
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