About
Explorer who became was the first person to get to the North and South Pole without flying and the first to cross Antarctica without driving.
Before Fame
He served over eight years in the British Army in his father's regiment.
Trivia
The Guinness Book of World Records named him the world's greatest living explorer.
Family Life
He married his childhood sweetheart, Virginia Pepper, in September 1970. He married Louise Millington in 2005, a year after Pepper's passing.
Associated With
He wrote a biography about fellow explorer Robert Falcon Scott which was published in 2003.
