In this interview with record-breaking polar explorer Pen Hadow we discuss:

• Pen’s successful trek to the North Pole, solo and without re-supply, where he made history by becoming the first (and only) person to do so.
• How he had to dig deeper into his mental and physical resources than he had ever done so before
• How it felt to finally achieve the goal that had consumed him for most of his adult life.

As with our previous interviews, Pen speaks with an openness and honesty that really enables you to visualise the sheer extremities of the challenge that he successfully undertook. (more…)

As you might be aware, the data brought back from the ice by Pen and the Catlin Arctic Survey (CAS) team, has, over the last 6 weeks, been analysed by Prof Peter Wadhams and his colleagues at the Polar Oceans Physics Group at the University of Cambridge. In close partnership with the WWF this analysis has been presented at a press conference in London, within the last few days.

Peter Wadhams and Nick Toberg the report authors, highlight the vulnerability of the Arctic Ocean sea ice, supporting a consensus view that the Arctic will be ice free in 20 years, but with much of it happening within the next decade. (more…)

Time, the Global Magazine Publication, has just published it’s list of  ‘Environmental Heroes for 2009′ and it gives us great pleasure to announce that Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley, have been named within the Scientists and Innovators section, due to their ground-breaking study; The Catlin Arctic Survey. The Jenrick Recruitment Group were one of the first comfirmed  sponsors of expedition. You will find the article from Time detailed below, as well as a link  to the specific feature that was published on the Explorers. (more…)

Jenrick CPI would like to congratulate the Catlin Arctic Survey team on the successful completion of this feat of human endurance and scientific discovery that has the potential to change to way we view our planet forever.

If the Ice Team imagined they’d be arriving home for some instant R&R, they soon realised it wasn’t going to be the case.  From the moment they were greeted at Heathrow Airport by a welcoming group of more than a dozen family, friends and colleagues - their feet hardly touched the ground. (more…)

Explorer Hadow returns after months on thin ice and provides  fresh data indicating the alarming rate of Arctic meltdown

By Geoffrey Lean, Sunday, 17 May 2009

Pen Hadow is used, figuratively, to living on thin ice. The explorer - the
first person ever to trek alone and unaided to the North Pole - habitually pushes himself far beyond the limits of normal human endurance. But for the past two and a half months he has been on it literally as well.

He and two colleagues - Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley - have been out on the Arctic ice cap in temperatures down to minus 90C, measuring its thickness and finding far less of it beneath their feet than they had been led to believe. (more…)

By Jennifer Wiley, 17/05/2009

ARTIC explorer Pen Hadow is on top of the world - literally - as he proclaims his backing for the News of the World’s brilliant Go Green & Save campaign.

The adventurer has just finished a gruelling 73-day stint in the Arctic with his Catlin Arctic Survey team studying the shrinking state of the pack ice. (more…)

Two Twin Otter planes landed at 1750 hours BST at a landing strip on the floating Arctic Ocean sea ice to collect the Catlin Arctic Survey Ice Team at the end of their gruelling 73 day scientific survey. (more…)

Polar explorers Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley are minutes away from being lifted from the Arctic Ocean where they have spent the last 73 days in the arctic wilderness. They have just spoken live from the Ice via satellite telephone.

This pioneering polar expedition started back in February, the team have travelled 440km taking daily measurements and observations of the Arctic snow and Ice. In total the team have taken 16,000 readings.

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07 May 2009

The Catlin Arctic Survey team has now been on the ice for 67 days.

They will be lifted off the ice in an air operation at some point in the next 10-15 days. As the Arctic Summer approaches the sea ice will begin to melt. NO specific date has been decided and the decision is taken based on advice from the pilots, detailed satellite imagery showing the conditions of the ice and the reports from our team on the ice.

The survey data accumulated will be available to scientists studying the complex issues around the disappearing floating ice and climate change. (more…)

05 May 2009

The Catlin Arctic Survey Ice Team currently surveying the thickness of the floating sea ice on the Arctic  Ocean are this morning heading northwards again after a successful re-supply flight finally reached the increasingly hungry team who had been waiting for eleven days at an ice landing strip high in the Arctic Ocean.

The team, Pen Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels has been forced to  wait far longer than expected after the flight was consistently grounded by  bad weather. Although they had rations to last, they were relying on 90 grams of food a day (1,000 calories) which had begun to affect their morale.

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