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As an expedition leader, Martyn Williams is the first person in the world to lead successful expeditions to the three extremes: the North Pole, South Pole, and Mount Everest. He led the first-ever crossing of Antarctica using human power and he led the first American expedition to the South Pole.
As a mountain guide, Martyn has guided expeditions to remote areas of the world for 25 years, including Mount Everest, and the highest peaks in Antarctica, Canada, South America and Australasia. As a river guide, he has taught wild river rescue to Parks staff, and has completed a number of first descents in Canada.

Martyn has a background in education with Indian and Eskimo youth and has
innovated outdoor and environmental issues at the national level as Trustee of the Canadian Nature Federation. Deeply committed to finding practical means to educate youth in skills needed to lead in a global community Martyn founded the Global Leadership Institute to further those goals.  One of Martyns first projects with the Institute was to organize and lead the first Pole to Pole journey, Pole to Pole 2000.
 

Advisors:

Adolf Ogi,
    Former President of Switzerland, Special Advisor to the Secretary General 
    of the United Nations on Sports and Peace

Dr. Jane Goodall,
    Internationally known researcher and environmentalist

Dr. Robert Muller,
    Former Assistant Secretary General to the United Nations, Chancellor,
    United Nations University for Peace, Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Charles Clements,
    MD President, Physicians for Social Responsibility. Nobel Peace prize 
    winner for his work as founder of the Committee to Abolish Land Mines

Ron Dodson,
    President, Audubon International

Peter Copen,
    President, IEARN, global educational Internet group in 90 countries

Project President - Kevin  Scott.  Kevin brings 15 years experience on the international  stage working with the United Nations, international charitable organizations and several multinational corporations.

Documentary Executive Producer - Tracy Trager. Tracy has 20 years experience producing, financing and production managing film and television projects in Canada and the USA.

Vice President, Operations - Hugh McClelland. Hugh has extensive event and project management experience in addition to producing over 20 dramas and documentaries for theatre and television in the USA and Canada.

Vice President, Communications - Tina Baird. Tina has been providing international clients with publicity, marketing and corporate communications for the past 20 years.

Senior Producer - Dave Banks. Dave has won 3 Emmy Awards, has directed Discoverys Ecochallenge and produced ABCs documentary series From the Front Lines.

Field Producer - Pat Morrow. Pat has produced adventure documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery and Outdoor Life Network. He is the first person in the world to climb the highest peaks on all 7 continents, one of mountaineerings Grand Slams.

Southern African Coordinator - Devlin Fogg. Devlin was the South African team representative on the first Pole To Pole 2000 journey.  Devlin is a safari guide and tourism business owner in South Africa.