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John Wilton-Davies is a 44 year-old business
consultant from Exeter. His wife Michele works for Christows
stockbrokers and they have two children: Zak, aged 3 and Sam,
1.
John grew up in Gosport, Hampshire. He spent
his 1st year at St John’s College, Southsea, and the rest
of his school life was spent at St Peter’s School in Bournemouth.
After trying out a degree course in Physics with Astrophysics
at Queen Elizabeth College, London, he moved to Exeter in 1982,
where he has lived since.
John has worked
for an insurance company, been a financial adviser, investment
manager, and now runs a small consultancy business helping financial
advisers. He is a keen tennis player and footballer. |
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In 2004, for no apparent
reason, he decided that he wanted to walk to the South Pole.
Despite his best efforts, he could find no one who would go
with him, so decided to learn about polar travel, undertake
suitable training, and find people with the necessary expertise,
with the aim of undertaking an expedition in 2006.
John says that he has
always wanted to take on an extreme physical challenge and felt
that, at 44, the time was right. He says that it wouldn’t
be fair on his family to take on more than one big challenge
and so he decided to try for the biggest test he could imagine,
in order to remove the prospect of wanting to try something
even harder another time.
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