Mad but Marvellous
– HRH Prince Charles, Expedition Patron
In 1972 Ran’s wife, Ginny, conceived the circumpolar idea. For seven years they strove to raise support for it and in 1979 set out from Greenwich in a thirty-year-old ice strengthened vessel, Benjamin Bowring, with a colourful crew of volunteers from many countries and backgrounds.
Posted on 14 Aug 2023
Happy Talk Date: Thursday, 16 November 2023 Venue: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London Time: Doors open at 6pm for a 7pm start Price: £35 per ticket his year, we have named our evening
The 100,000-mile route took the Transglobe Expedition team across the Sahara via Tombouctou, through the swamps and jungles of Mali and the Ivory Coast, over huge unexplored crevasse fields in Antarctica, through the inhospitable North West Passage, graveyard of so many famous venturers, and into the unpredictable hazards of the Arctic Ocean.
