Adventurers
Ed Chapman, Hot Air Balloon Pilot
Bristol Explorer, Ed has worked at the forefront of ballooning for the last 10 years working throughout Europe on a wide range of projects including TV productions, aerial marketing and record breaking stunts like washing the Worlds’ Biggest Car and high altitude reading GQ! His most memorable flight to date is flying over the Italian / Austrian Alps at 16,000 feet.
Murray Smith: Kitesurfer and Adventurer
Steve Flanagan, Adventure Sports Instructor
Steve’s been an adventure sports coach for the past eight years in the UK and Europe. He spent four years living in the Scottish Highlands where he owned and ran a residential activity centre.
Justin Miles, Personal Trainer and member of The Last Great Challenge
Most people learn to walk and talk only once in their lives, but just to make sure he could do it properly, Justin did it twice.
Charlie Radclyffe
Hello all – new member introducing himself. I’ve just signed up on Bristol Explorers after meeting a wonderful woman last month on a train to the south west. That supposedly two-hour journey felt as though it passed in minutes and one of the great outcomes of it was discovering this group!
John Wilton-Davies, Polar Explorer
In early 2007, John almost became the 7th person in history to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole, falling short by only a few days because the last flight out of Antarctica was due to depart.
To get that close you’d think he’d had years of experience but the first time John slept alone in a tent anywhere was in Antarctica that year. Previously the lowest temperatures he’d experienced were in Bournemouth.
Jim Starr, Expedition Artist
Expedition Artist, Painter and Illustrator, Jim Starr, has recorded expeditions to Pakistan, Montana, Svalbard, Lesotho, S. Africa and Iceland.
Douglas Hoddinott, Hot Air Balloon Pilot
Douglas Hoddinott is a 22 year old Hot air Balloon pilot based in Bristol. Doug has been involved in Ballooning since the age of 4 and has been flying all over europe in some of the most breathtaking locations including the Loire Valley in France, Ireland, Spain and the UK.
Ken Hames, Expedition Leader
A well known television presenter and expedition leader, Ken is one of the very few British Officers to have worn the red beret of the parachute brigade, the green beret of the Royal Marines and the sand beret of the SAS.