Caption: The Duke of Cambridge with Henry Worsley
Photo: John Stillwell/PA Duke of Cambridge praises "courage and determination" of former SAS officer who was raising money for the Duke's Endeavour Fund with polar trip
As his friend the Duke of Cambridge led tributes to him, fellow explorers suggested Mr Worsley’s “extraordinary” journey would place him in the Pantheon of Antarctic
pioneers alongside the men he was trying to emulate.Father of two Mr Worsley, 55, set out to cross the Antarctic via the same route that Shackleton had planned, aiming to raise money for the Endeavour Fund, one of the Duke of Cambridge’s charities.
A descendant of Frank Worsley,
the captain of Shackleton’s ship the Endurance, he was a veteran of two other Antarctic expeditions.The former SAS officer, operating solo and unaided, managed to drag himself and his equipment 913 miles across the ice, but despite the benefit of modern technology he discovered, to his cost, that Antarctica remains the same perilous and unforgiving place it was a century ago. Click link for full post from The Telegraph.