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Speakers

Expert speakers and workshop leaders will share tales from the field and give advice on your own future projects and expeditions.

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Expedition and wilderness medicine

Conor Diffin

Conor is a doctor splitting his time between general practice, emergency medicine, remote medicine, and the great outdoors, pursuing expeditions in the Himalayas, Mongolia, and the High Atlas.

Expedition and wilderness medicine

Anna Shekhdar

Anna is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, fullfilling her passion for skiing and mountains through her role as Medical Director for Endeavour Medical.

Polar and arctic environments

Denise Martin

A Canadian living in Scotland, Denise has a long-standing history with polar travel and guiding. One of the original polar guides from the late 90s with many expedition miles behind her, Denise loves sharing her experiences and hearing about the expedition aspirations of others.

Monday night lecture

Callum Munday

Callum is a climate scientist at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. His research focuses on African and tropical climate dynamics and climate change.

Monday Night Lecture

Ash Bhardwaj

Ash is one of the country’s top travel writers and broadcasters, co-host of the First Mile podcast, and winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Best Broadcast Programme of the Year.

Mountaineering

Tom Davis-Merry

Tom is a mountaineer, skier, speaker, writer, and expedition leader. He has made first ascents in Kyrgyzstan and the Indian Himalayas and has climbed widely across the Alps and South America.

Challenging road trips

Will Mather

Will has been involved in youth-development expeditions since 2006 and currently works for a large British NGO. He has travelled the world on foot and by 4x4. While supporting expeditions with Land Rovers, he fell in love with the vehicles and now runs he runs a website that helps people to fix them.

Video and film-making

James Levelle

James is a filmmaker and adventurer whose work in the world’s wildest places has earned him uncommon understanding of the beauty and power of Nature, as well as an unshakeable faith in humankind.

Expedition and wilderness medicine

Lucy Penny

Lucy is a child and adult student nurse passionate about expedition medicine and connecting young people to nature for both personal and environmental health.

Virtual field trips

Simon Hutchinson

Simon teaches geography at the University of Salford and works as a researcher in sediment-based reconstruction of past environmental change and human impact. He is passionate about making geoscience more inclusive and uses Digital Visualisation Tools to support students’ fieldwork.

Oceans and marine

Alex McMaster

Alexander McMaster is a writer and ecologist from the Atlantic coast of Ireland. As a professional diver and seafarer he is involved with scientific research and community engagement in coastal regions. With over a decade of maritime experience, he currently works as a search and rescue leader in the Central Mediterranean.

Travels with purpose

Meagan Neal

Meagan is the Executive Director of the Transcaucasian Trail Association, leading the development of the new Transcaucasian Trail (TCT) that winds through the stunning Caucasus Mountains of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

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