Alan Chambers
Chivalric Order Member
1968 –
Who is Alan Chambers?
Alan Chambers MBE is a polar adventurer and motivational speaker.
Chambers led the first British team to walk unsupported to the Geographic North Pole from Canada. After 70 days on the ice, he and Charlie Paton raised the Union Jack at the North Pole at 23:16 hours on 16 May 2000.
Chambers was also instrumental in planning and executing the first Winter crossing of Iceland on skis. Dragging sledges each weighing 240 pounds, Chambers and his team completed the 500 mile journey in 47 days.
Aged 32, Chambers was awarded the MBE by Her Majesty the Queen for Determined Leadership in Constant Adversity.
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