David Hempleman-Adams Explorer

Box is also home for the intrepid explorer David Hempleman-Adams

In May 1998 the 42-year-old adventurer became the first man to achieve the grand slam of conquering the North and South geographic and magnetic poles and the highest mountain in every continent. It has taken him 18 years to achieve this feat.

David Hempleman-Adams thinks that he has one more Arctic adventure in him, despite a close call on his latest challenge. Just before Christmas he was forced to make an emergency crash landing in his balloon, while attempting to cross the Andes, in South America. A second attempt was more successful, and now he is back at his Box home.

He has been quoted as saying that: "I've got to the age where the polar challenges are getting tougher. I'm probably at my peak mentally and physically now, but I don't want to pull a 350lb sledge across the Arctic any more. I have one more big polar challenge in me, although I haven't told my wife yet."

The explorer says he is lucky that he has a proper job running Global Resins in Corsham and does not have to make a living from his adventures. It also seems that most of these adventures originate over a pint of beer in his local pub.

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