Paul Walker (Arctic explorer)

He achieved a B.Ed Honours degree in Outdoor Education and Mathematics and has organised more than 250 arctic expeditions to Spitsbergen (Svalbard), Baffin Island (Canada), Iceland and Greenland over 30+ years.

Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire Walker moved to Wetherby aged 8 and later graduated from Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside with a B.Ed Honours degree in Outdoor Education and Mathematics.

He has also worked with a range of celebrities organising their personal adventure holidays, expeditions and TV programme logistics including Ian Wright, Christie Turlington, Paul Rose, Steve Backshall and Google founders Larry Page & Sergei Bryn.

He was logistics, safety and location consultant for the latest Disney+ and National Geographic TV channel 3 part expedition documentary series entitled "On The Edge", with Oscar award-winning climber Alex Honnold.

After 30 years living in the Lake District, North West England, Paul moved to the small village of Kirknewton, near Wooler, in Northumberland in 2014.