Geoffrey Kent: Exploring Earth’s last true wilderness
An explorer sets out on Day 6 of the recent A&K South Pole expedition. Image courtesy of Abercrombie & Kent
At the age of 76, LUX contributor and founder of luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent Geoffrey Kent is still adventuring. Here he recalls one of his most recent and challenging expeditions into the South Pole
For the last three years, I have been occupied with a desire to go on a journey to Antarctica. Like my hero of heroes, Sir Ernest Shackleton, I dreamed of getting to the South Pole. Unlike Shackleton, who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, I wanted to do it in comfort and five-star style.
Adventure is in my genes, and since my parents and I founded A&K in 1962, I?ve packed a lot in. I?ve climbed Kilimanjaro, hiked to Tiger?s Nest in Bhutan, and circled the earth along the equator. I?ve journeyed from the source of the Upper Amazon to where it meets the Atlantic Ocean and been to Iraq with some special forces? guys. I have been to the edge of space in an English Electric Lightning, travelling Mach 2.2 at 21 kilometres up, and hiked to Base Camp Everest. I was officially the last person in the twentieth century to stand on the North Pole. Follow LUX on Instagram: the.official.lux.magazine
My recent expedition to the South Pole is my latest and perhaps most challenging adventure. Like all dedicated travellers, my wanderlust constantly drives me. I?m obsessed with the app Been, which reveals that I have visited 70 per cent of the worl...
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