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Epilogue:

 

For those who have not followed the link I would like to update everyone about what has happened to me on this challenge.  We set off as planned and were dropped on the plateau on Sunday 4th, close to where Shakleton finished his epic journey, and we commenced walking towards to pole.  Over the next four days I suffered increasingly from altitude sickness and developed pneumonia.  At 52.5 miles from the pole I required a medical evacuation to a lower altitude and for oxygen and antibiotic treatment.  I was hugely disappointed and frustrated to have been stopped like this, but this was not in my control unfortunately.  The team have continued and will make it to the pole as planned on the 13th.  I did acutally get there as well but by aeroplane, so that probably doesn't count.  I now join that illustrious group of Shackleton, Scott and Carey who in one way or another have failed to get there and back in one piece.  

 

I am hugely thankful for all the support I have received for the bursary charity.  If anyone feels short changed by these events, I am willing to re-imburse you.  Please let me know by email.

 

For all the notes and messages of support since I returned last night, thank you.  I am starting to recover now.     

 

 

As many of you will know I am walking to the South Pole this December.  We are leaving on the 29th November and are aiming to walk unassisted to arrive at the pole 100 years to the day after it was orignially conquered by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen on 14th December 1911.  We are aiming to complete Ernest Shackleton's trip of 1909 when he had to turn back at 88 degrees and 23 minutes south, 112 miles from the pole.  

 

You can follow our progress on the trip at:

 

 http://www.iceaxe.tv/expeditions/archive/south-pole-100-2011/

  I am walking with 8 others in a team. This is the same team that walked to the North Pole in 2009.

 

On this walk I would like to raise money for Stephen Davidson's bursary fund at Bradford Grammar School.  The fund supports students who would not be able to attend BGS without its support.  

 

Education has been a big part of my life.  Being severely dyslexic I was unable to read at the age of 14.  It was as a consequence of the hard work of my parents and one or two special teachers like Mr Colins that I learnt to read. Without their effort and support I would never have gone on to do medicine at Cambridge.  It was not an easy journey, I seem to favour a challenging route, but what I do know is that I am indebted to that support.  

 

We live in Yorkshire and my children now attend Bradford.  Recently I had the pleasure of meeting a number of students who had come though the bursay system at the school and gone on to be fantastically successful.  Their stories were inspirational and resonated with my past and so I decided for this trip to try to support other youngsters who deserve a chance in the same way as I was.

Thankyou for whatever you can afford, Adam