Together with celebrities Prince Harry, Dominic West and Alexander Skarsgard, three teams of wounded soldiers from the UK, USA, Australia and Canada skied 200 km to the South Pole.
Also in 2013, Eric guided Greenpeace on a short ski expedition to the North Pole where a symbolic capsule containing 2.7 million signatures and a message to the future was lowered to the sea bed.
[2] In 1998-99, together with Jon Muir and Peter Hillary, Philips skied from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the South Pole via the Ross Ice Shelf and Shackleton Glacier.
In 2000, he used similar methods to cross the South Patagonian Icecap from Chile to Argentina, producing the film, Riding the Tempest.
[2] He has also cycle toured through Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, around the South Island of New Zealand and from the Netherlands to Egypt.
[2] Through his experiences Philips has developed alternative and highly effective methods of travel in the polar regions and has embraced the use of specialised plastics in the construction of polar-specific equipment.