An Audience with Pen Hadow
About
Explorer, Advocate & Visionary
Pen invites you to join him on his Herculean rest-of-life mission, following in the inspirational footsteps of conservationist Sir Peter Scott, to catalyse the process within the United Nations to create a North Pole marine reserve by 2032 to protect its iconic wildlife from multiple human threats.
Pen’s extraordinary polar life was fired by the dying words of our most famous Antarctic explorer, Captain RF Scott, “ … Make the boy interested in the natural world …”, as both Sir Peter Scott (son of Capt Scott, and founder of the WWF) and Pen were raised in childhood by the same person, whose mission was to instil this interest!
Following a Spartan regime and a healthy diet of heroic polar stories as a youngster, Pen soon developed an appreciation for life in the natural world ...
After 15 years on the Arctic Ocean's sea-ice, Pen finally succeeded in becoming the first person to make a solo journey from Canada to the North Pole - a feat which has never been repeated. The challenges and insights that came out of this extreme experience are both unexpected and illuminating, including his Damascene moment: having had to swim much of the way, he realised the sea-ice cover with which he had built such a close working relationship was also a 'floating ice-reef habitat' and it was now in crisis - a new, unexplored and resource-rich ocean was opening up as the sea-ice melted away.
Book Now
Guide Prices
Ticket Type | Ticket Tariff |
---|---|
Adult | £21.75 per ticket |
Poole's Centre For The Arts
21 Kingland Road
Poole
Dorset
BH15 1UG
Opening Times
Sorry, this event has passed