polarKAT | The Team - Ian Wilson

Latest update The Race Fitness and Training Arctic Information Polar Challenge The NSPCC Sponsorship Information	Meet the team	Mountaineering The Golden Age of Mountaineering was towards the end of the 19th Century when young men from England began to enter the almost untouched world of high alpine peaks. Today, there are few unexplored territories to be discovered. Yet the Polar regions still receive little traffic compared to the mountains of the Alps and beyond to the Himalaya. This, to me, is the appeal of this challenge. The chance to visit one of the few real wilderness lands remaining.

Capturing the moment	Ian Wilson I am a 39 year old Project Manager based in the Midlands. Since reading a book about Roald Amundsen as a child, I've always aspired to visiting arctic/polar regions. I've been to Iceland several times and trekked out from the main glacier Vatnajokul to the coast. I'm an active alpine mountaineer, caver and hill runner and love competitive adventure events. As a keen photographer, I'm also hoping for the opportunity to get a picture of a polar bear, but hopefully not a close-up! To compete in this challenge would give me the opportunity to visit one of the few last wilderness regions of the world whilst giving me a chance to push myself to the limit.