Richard Brooke (explorer)

Richard "Brookes" Brooke is an explorer and Royal Naval surveyor whose achievements include spending two winters on the British North‑East Greenland Expedition[1] (1952–1954) and participating in Britain's Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) (1956–1958). During the TAE he became the first person to ascend a peak (Mount Huggins) in the Royal Society Range[2] and walked the 1600 km between Mawson Glacier and Mulock Glacier.[2]

He is a licensed lay reader in the Church of England in Bath, Somerset.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gunn, Bernard. "Training on the Tasman Glacier, 1956". Land of the Long Day. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  2. 1 2 Amodeo, Christian. "Forward crawl across the White Continent". Geographical. Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). Retrieved 13 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Brooke, Richard. "Charlcombe Church’s Richard Brooke remembers exciting journeys with Sir Edmund Hillary, and a special Thanksgiving Service at Windsor" (PDF). Charlcome and Lansdown Parish News Summer 2008. Charlcombe and Bath St Stephen Parochial Church Councils. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
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