It was a pleasure to welcome Charlie Walker, a UK born and bred explorer, writer and public speaker, to St Mary’s Church to speak to the Sixth Form yesterday.

Charlie specialises in long distance, human-powered expeditions to develop an intimate understanding of the world’s most remote communities. Over his 12 year career, this focus has taken him to places as varied as the Tibetan plateau, the Mongolian steppe, the Congolese jungle, Arctic tundra, the highlands of New Guinea and numerous deserts in between.

He has travelled over 50,000 miles by bicycle, foot, horse, raft, ski and dugout canoe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a 2021 Scientific Exploration Society Explorer Award winner, and a three-time recipient of the Transglobe Expedition Trust’s ‘Mad but Marvellous’ grant.

His work has been featured on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and Geographical magazine and he has also written two books.

Thanks so much to Charlie for a fascinating and inspirational talk.