Herbert, Sir Wally

Herbert, Sir Wally
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Walter William Herbert 
      British polar explorer

born Oct. 24, 1934, York, Eng.

died June 12, 2007, Inverness, Scot.
led the British Transarctic Expedition that crossed the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole on an epic 15-month trek from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Herbert (with 3 colleagues, 4 sleds, and 40 dogs) left Point Barrow on Feb. 21, 1968, and reached the Pole on April 6, 1969. By the time the team reached Spitsbergen on May 29, they had walked more than 5,800 km (3,600 mi) and had taken some 250 ice-core samples. In the 1950s and early '60s, Herbert spent several years trekking in Antarctica, first with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and then with teams from New Zealand. In later years he lived with his family in Greenland, where he made an unsuccessful attempt in 1979 to circumnavigate the island. His books included Across the Top of the World (1969) and The Noose of Laurels (1989), in which he determined that American explorer Robert Peary, famed for being the first man to reach the North Pole, had actually fallen short in his attempt. Herbert was knighted in 2000.

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