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alcs05@holyrood.ed.ac.uk (E Forster) writes:
> Climber, polar traveller and recipient of the Society's Livingstone
> Medal, David Hempleman-Adams describes a life of adventure, during
> which he has chased his dream to become the first person to climb
> the highest mountains in each continent, and reach the North and
> South Geographic and Magnetic Poles. 
> The Royal Scottish Geographical Society EDINBURGH

Is there something about having a silly upper-class-twit name that
protects you from the harmful effects of cosmic rays associated with
thin atmosphere and vertical magnetic fields?

I mean, the alternative would be that the RGS is an organization totally
devoted to massaging the egos of plonkers who got too big for their green
wellies and needed to move on to ski boots, and that can't possibly be
true, can it?

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> Is there something about having a silly upper-class-twit name that
> protects you from the harmful effects of cosmic rays associated with
> thin atmosphere and vertical magnetic fields?
>
> I mean, the alternative would be that the RGS is an organization totally
> devoted to massaging the egos of plonkers who got too big for their green
> wellies and needed to move on to ski boots, and that can't possibly be
> true, can it?

Before spouting off about David "Hempleman-Adams" being an upper class twit,
I'd suggest reading his book ("Toughing It Out : The Adventures of a Polar
Explorer and Mountaineer").
For quite a long time, he was completely ignored by the RGS, despite having
completed the seven highest continental summits and
a trip to the North Magnetic Pole and South Geographic pole.

Martin Shelley wrote:

> I'd suggest reading his book ("Toughing It Out : The Adventures of
> a Polar Explorer and Mountaineer"). For quite a long time, he was
> completely ignored by the RGS, despite having completed the seven
> highest continental summits and a trip to the North Magnetic Pole
> and South Geographic pole.

Merely going there hardly costitutes being a Polar Explorer. Many
people have been to either of the Poles before him, just as many
mountaineers have stood on his summits before him. What's he done 
that's so special? Nothing that any reasonably fit person with 
sufficient spare time and money couldn't, I reckon.
 

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Martin Shelley <shellmash@hotmail.com> said...

>Before spouting off about David "Hempleman-Adams" being an upper class twit,
>I'd suggest reading his book ("Toughing It Out : The Adventures of a Polar
>Explorer and Mountaineer").

Do you have a free copy ? Otherwise I'm not really interested. Is his
surname usually written within quotation marks or are you suggesting
that that's his nickname ? Is he really David Bloggs ?

>For quite a long time, he was completely ignored by the RGS, despite having
>completed the seven highest continental summits and
>a trip to the North Magnetic Pole and South Geographic pole.

And ?

So you feel the fact that DH-A was ignored by the RGS for some time,
somehow disproves the theory that he has the name of an upper class twit
(whether he actually is one or not) ?

I fail to understand your logic.

Incidentally, in world-class mountaineering terms, just how difficult
*is* it to climb the continental summits ? I believe Europe's is
something of a relative walk-up... Not having a go at DH-A here, just
asking.


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> Is his surname usually written within quotation marks or are you suggesting
> that that's his nickname ? Is he really David Bloggs ?

What I forgot to say was that he changed his surname from Hempleman
to Hempleman-Adams because his parents divorced - doesn't necessarily
make him an upper class twit, but he might be a middle-class one ;-)

> Incidentally, in world-class mountaineering terms, just how difficult
> *is* it to climb the continental summits ? I believe Europe's is
> something of a relative walk-up... Not having a go at DH-A here, just
> asking.

Surely it depends on which routes you go up?

By the "normal" routes, I suspect that the hardest technical bits (from what I've

read and spoken to people about, not personal experience) are probably
the Khumbu ice fall on Everest and the Karstenz Pyramid (about VS rock) .
So as you say, anyone fit enough and with enough money can do it.

In article <36C18A08.3A1F@dundee.ac.uk> a.downie@dundee.ac.uk wrote...

> Merely going there hardly costitutes being a Polar Explorer. Many
> people have been to either of the Poles before him

...and quite a few are now long-term blocks of ice.

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Martin Shelley wrote in message <36C1A9B8.DD416783@hotmail.com>...

>Surely it depends on which routes you go up?
>
>By the "normal" routes, I suspect that the hardest technical bits (from
what I've
>
>read and spoken to people about, not personal experience) are probably
>the Khumbu ice fall on Everest and the Karstenz Pyramid (about VS rock) .
>So as you say, anyone fit enough and with enough money can do it.


So which route did DHA take then?

Seetheeanon

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