Achievements

Conferred a Member of the Order of Australia (AM)  in 2010 for “service to conservation and the environment, particularly through advisory roles to developing countries regarding land sustainability and resource management, as an explorer and to the community”.

Record for the fastest unsupported journey to the South Pole and the longest unsupported journey in Antarctica, 1999.

Author of two best-selling books, ”The Unforgiving Minute“, about his first 3 polar expeditions, and “Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica“, the book based on an award-winning documentary film  of the same name.

Accepted to the prestigious Yale World Fellows Program  2009 which aims to strengthen the leadership skills of a set of emerging leaders from around the world.

Awarded the Australian Geographic Society’s ‘Spirit of Adventure’ medal for his kayak journey down the Warburton River and trek across Australia’s largest salt lake, Lake Eyre, 2004.