My polar CV can be downloaded here;

Antony Jinman Polar CV

My expeditions to date can be seen on this map. Further details of many of them can be found below:


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North Pole Expedition 2010

(3rd March – 22nd April 2010)

Antony Jinman reached the North Pole on Earth Day on 22 April at 22.05 GMT.

Antony and his team mates, Eric Larsen and Darcy St Laurent skied and snow shoed (and sometimes swam) over 500 miles from Cape Discovery to the North Pole for 51 days. Here are some highlights of the expedition:

Antony reaches the North Pole

Crossing a lead during the 2010 North Pole Expedition with team mates Eric Larsen and Darcy St-laurent

Storm conditions on the way to the North Pole, photograph taken by Darcy St-laurent

Read more about the North Pole Expedition 2010

Baffin Island

2010

In August 2010, a team of 9 University students and graduates from a wide range of disciplines (including Earth Science, Geology, Geography, Zoology, Linguistics and Film Studies), trainee teachers and mountain guides will depart from the UK on an expedition in the Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada.

Ironically, ‘Auyuittuq’ is Inuktituk for “the land that never melts”. However climate change is having a significant impact on our polar regions. Our team aims to assess the effect of climate change on the landscape of Baffin Island and also on the Inuit people and wildlife.

Antony Jinman is the team leader. Primary and secondary school students will be able to follow the expedition through our online blog and can ask questions free of charge to the satellite phone which we will carry out in the field. These questions will then be answered by sending text and photographs to the online blog.

We will be making a series of films and educational resources which will be made available free of charge to schools, to make the classroom come alive, making it a fun and inspiring environment to learn in.

2009

Whilst previously Antony had only visited the park during the winter months, in 2009 he chose to also travel through the 96km Akshayuk Pass in the summer in order to document the difference between the two seasons for schools. To extend his “education through expeditions” ethos further, he took two students on expedition with him this summer; Louise Biddle who studied Earth Sciences at Oxford University, and Josephine Beynon who had just graduated from Edinburgh University reading Zoology.

What they discovered were glaciers that were melting in front of their eyes and extensive damage to moraines due to major floods caused by higher than average levels of meltwater last summer. On Baffin Island, it is all too apparent that the climate is indeed warming at an alarming rate. This summer, the team only had a couple of wet days, and yet the rivers were high with meltwater coming off the glaciers and ice cap. This is water that has been locked up as ice for thousands of years; it is not being replaced.