Alex Hibbert is the world record-holding polar traveller who has skied further on an unsupported Arctic journey than anyone in history, and is one of only 11 people to have broken the polar unsupported 1000-mile barrier.

“In July 2008, Alex completed his 1374-mile, 113-day ‘Long Haul’ return crossing of a new ice sheet route along with team-mate George Bullard. They received no resupplies or physical support and completed the final week on almost no food.”

500+ days in the cold - 189 days unsupported

Highly active in the polar and cold regions, Alex has led independent projects for well over a decade. Journeys since the Long Haul journey have included a high-speed icecap crossing (330 miles in less than 12 days) and routes in Svalbard, the Alaskan North Slope, High Arctic Canada and nearly half a year living with the Polar Eskimos. He continues to develop an on-going Dark Ice Project (North Pole in winter via a novel route) which is now in its third iteration.

Alex is a speaker who has addressed tens of thousands of people, with business clients including Rolls-Royce and RBC, and has also been a guest speaker at both Cambridge University and the Oxford Union. Alex has authored four books; The Long Haul, Maybe, Kalaallit Nunaat and Polar Eskimo, and has appeared as an expert commentator across mainstream media, including Sky News and the BBC and national newspapers. Photography and filmmaking is central to Alex’s work and he has been a BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalist three times - this passion for the natural world leading to a degree in biology from Oxford University.

Alex has been described as ‘ground-breaking’ by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, ‘passionate… and fascinating’ by Wanderlust magazine and his writing style has attracted both accolade and debate. He has a growing social media presence exceeding 100,000 subscribers.