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Oliver Shepard (born 1946) is a British explorer. He participated in the Transglobe Expedition, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole. [1] [2] Shepard was educated at Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire, followed by Eton College (also in Berkshire).
The Transglobe Expedition (1979–1982) was the first expedition to make a longitudinal (north–south) circumnavigation of the Earth using only surface transport. British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes led a team, including Oliver Shepard and Charles R. Burton, that attempted to follow the Greenwich meridian over both land and water.
A notable trek was the Transglobe Expedition he undertook between 1979 and 1982, when he and two fellow members of 21 SAS, Oliver Shepard and Charles R. Burton, journeyed around the world on its polar axis, using surface transport only. Nobody else has ever done so by any route before or since.
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Expedition Leader, Transglobe Expedition. Lady Virginia Twistleton-Wykeham-FiENNES: Radio Operator, Transglobe Expedition. Charles Reginald BURTON: General Assistant and Cook, Transglobe Expedition. Oliver Wilfrid Nicholas SHEPARD: Mechanic, Transglobe Expedition. David John DREWRY: Glaciology and Geophysics Researcher, Scott Polar Research ...
Dax Shepard jokingly said he hates giving Bradley Cooper credit for getting him to open up about his relapse in 2020, but the fact of the matter is that Cooper was the "close friend" all those ...
The Transglobe Expedition, the first trip around the world from south to north to both poles, began as Ranulph Fiennes, Charles R. Burton, and Oliver Shepard departed London. [6] They would reach the South Pole on December 15, 1980 and the North Pole on April 11, 1982, before returning to London on August 29, 1982. [7]
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