Alan Chambers MBE (born 1968[1]) is a polar adventurer and motivational speaker from Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
Born to a family of steel workers, Alan left school and home at sixteen and joined the Royal Marines.
Nine months later he completed training and spent the next seventeen years in a front line Commando unit.
Dragging sledges each weighing 240 pounds (110 kg), Chambers and his team completed the 500 miles (800 km) journey in 47 days.
Chambers is a popular motivational and corporate away day speaker on topics including Leading at the Edge, Maintaining Team High Performance, Delivering the Impossible, Managing Adversity, Leadership and Resilience and Setbacks and Doing More with Less.