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Plymouth polar explorer and environmental campaigner Antony Jinman wants to tell his story to schoolchildren in and around his home city.
It was during his time at Plymstock School that Antony first discovered his love for travelling and adventurous training. He actively took part in school trips to the Alps and North Wales as well as joining Plymstock Air Training Corps and, through this, he took part and completed the Ten Tors event as well as his Duke of Edinburgh Awards. Antony quickly realised he wanted to make a career in the outdoors by becoming an expedition leader and joined the Territorial Army at 18 whilst at Plymouth College of Further Education, studying Public Services. After a brief spell in the Navy, Antony led adventure holidays around the globe from the Ice Hotel in Sweden to Kilimanjaro treks and safaris in the Serengeti. At 25 he reached his dream of becoming an Expedition Leader and began to specialize in the Arctic regions.
Antony has made three expeditions to Baffin Island, filming and living with the Inuit people and travelling solo and unsupported in temperatures as low as -45’c between villages. He invites you to learn about the Inuit and their way of life in a beautiful and fragile arctic environment. See firsthand how climate change is having a dramatic effect on their way of life, their environment and the animals that also live there through this interactive expedition.
Click here to read more about why climate change is important.
You can view some YouTube clips of Antony's work with these links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZATTL_hA_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0jXbqTfDd0
To contact him, go to www.antonyjinman.com or email explore@antonyjinman.com
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Education through Expeditions
'If you can't get the students into the Atlantic..... take the Atlantic into the classroom'
Education Through Expeditions (ETE) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that was founded in January 2010 by Plymouth born Polar Explorer, Antony Jinman. ETE was formed with the purpose of connecting explorers and researchers with schools. The objective of the ETE team is to create an interactive network of explorers, scientists and schools, whilst revolutionising the way technology is utilised in the teaching of national curriculum subjects. Our site makes it easier for teachers to plan lessons effectively, develop resources quickly and via our online discussion boards, interact directly with explorers and scientists whist they are away on expeditions.
ETE expeditions are structured well in advance so teachers can plan their lesson activities around an expedition of interest. We cover expeditions to 5 environmental zones including Polar, Desert, Ocean, Rainforest and Mountain. By introducing exciting expeditions into the classrooom, ETE motivates children to gain a true appreciation for the different worldwide environments. By encouraging the exploration and understanding of different global habitats, ETE aims to not only help educate children of all ages, but also to inspire them to raise their aspirations for the future.
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Report by Laura Hobbs, Education Officer at Education through Expeditions - Click here for Laura's Report
Education Through Expeditions can bring the Artic straight into your classroom!
We can provide first-hand accounts of our own experience with communities that lead a very different lifestyle to our own, and extend students knowledge of global awareness to an area that may otherwise be excluded from thought. We support schools in ensuring that their students are envirnmentally aware and considerate, both locally and globally. Having spent time with indigenous people living in extreme environments, we can bring a new level of understanding to sustainable living, and adapt this into ways in which we can all improve our impact on our planet.
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On Top of the World
Antony, is back in Plymouth after trekking, skiing and even swimming for 51 days across the ice to the North Pole, with two team mates. Despite temperatures of between -25 and -40 degress centigrade, Antony said he was sad to leave the pole. When he started out on his trek he was walking and skiiing in a sort of 'permanent dust' in the Arctic winter and visibility was limited by ice ridges in the flat landscape, but Antony said that expedition life was never dull, with time spent either navigating or 'along with your thoughts'
Antony negotiates testing terrain
Although the distance from Cape Discovery to the Pole is about 480 miles, Antony said his team probably covered about 550 miles in total, because the ice was often moving south, meaning they could lose several miles while they slept. He said 'on a good day we could cover about 12 nautical miles, which is about 13 land miles'.
The team lived off an unusual diet while on the expedition, because of the need to take in a lot of calories. Breakfast was invariably porridge with dried meat and extra butter. Lunch consisted of six rashers of bacon, more butter and reconstituted chedder cheese, followed by four or five bars of chocolate. Their evening meal was two bags of rehydrated meals each, which provided some variety, with extra butter and cheese.
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Back in the UK, Antony said he was already starting to plan his next expedition, but he was also busy at the University of Plymouth, working on samples of algae he took during his expedition. Gathering them was not easy, Antony had to drop a net through cracks in the ice, which involved standing on dangerously thin ice. The net would then freeze almost instantly in the cold air. He gathered more than 20 samples and it is hoped thay will provide evidence of historic climate climate conditions in the Artic.
'I'm very excited, because in my mind it was primarily a science-based expedition', he said 'From the last parallel we were collecting samples every single day, and i'm very proud of that'. Antony said he and his team mates faced difficulties including large 'leads' of open water, areas of thin ice and 'pressure ridges' where ice plates have collided and formed jumbles of ice boulders. But he said travelling conditions were probably made easier by the fact that there was not as much thick, multi-year ice around, prbably due to climate change. That can form much larger ridges than the ones the expedition had to cross. He added ' There's a change up there seemingly taking place , that is why it's important to get up there and gather scientific data. We are only now beginning to take an interest in the high Artic'.
Pupils from Plymouth schools were able to play a part in this by sending questions to Antony during the trip and he was able to respond using a satellite phone. More information on the expedition is available at www.antonyjinman.com . This is part of Antony's Community Interest (Not for Profit) Company 'Education through Expeditions' where young people in schools are able to contact various explorers across the world during expeditions bringing their experiences into the classroom.
His next major expedition will be to the Antarctic in the footsteps of another Plymothian, Robert Falcon Scott, as part of a memorial expedition.
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SCOTT CENTENARY (Captain Robert Falcon Scott)
The Scott Polar Reasearch Institute was fouded in 1920, in Cambridge, as a memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, and his four companions, who died returning from the South Pole in 1912. When Scott's last words 'For god's sake, look after our people' were made known to the British nation, the response was tremendous. Scott himself had emphasised the importance of science and fro this plea, the Institute was born.
Antony has also started working towards the 100th anniversary of Scott's death in 2012 and hopes that Plymouth will feature strongly in the celebrations as Scott's birthplace. Arrangements are being made to take a sledge team to the point where Scott lost his life and meet wiith others being flown in for the centenary. There may even be a chance for a pupil from a local school to win a place and accompany the party to the Arctic!
This will also give Plymouth schools the oportunity to work with Antony in a variety of ways through producing an anthology on Scott, making films for Youth Motion Plymouth and researching the expedition.
What are the International Scott Centenary Expedition (ISCE) objectives?
For further information on the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) please visit: www.spri.cam.ac.uk
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Explorer to Honor Scott of Antartic
Antony Jinman will lead a party across the frozen continent for a memorial service at the site where Scott died. The international expedition is one of a series of events planned in Plymouth, the UK and abroad as part of the centenary. Plymouth-born Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions died in March 1912 on their 1,600-mile return journey on foot from the South Pole. They battled to the southernmost point only do discover they had been beaten in the quest to be the first to the pole by Norwegian Roald Amundsen's party. But the story of their bravery and spirit remains one of the greatest tales in the history of human exploration.
Antony said he hoped the International Scott Centenary Expedition (ISCE) would provide a worthy tribute and inspire young minds. He said 'Plymouth has a fantastic history of exploring nature and the world - a great spirit of discovery. 'That is something we should be proud of and should celebrate. The ISCE can inspire children in Plymouth and all of the country as they learn about Scott and the Antartic and climate change.' Antony's goal is to travel in 2012 to the site where Scott and his polar party died and hold a memorial service. A second party, including descendants of those on the Scott expedition will fly into thw site for the commemoration ceremony.
Other scheduled happenings include a three-day conference at the University of Plymouth next June, arts events, education, exhibitions, and a dinner marking the centenary of Scott's last birthday. Lord Mayor's day next year will have a Scott theme. A wide-ranging committee has been drawn up to oversee the commemorations in Plymouth, including the city council and the university. A key element is education. Antony, aged 29, is a vetran of 10 expeditions to the Artic and reached the North Pole earlier this year. This will be his first trip to Antartica.
About £1 million must be raised for the ISCE to go ahead, but Antony says he is confident the target can be reached. About £200,000 has been pledged by businesses and individuals so far.
Antony Jinman, above left will recreate the last journey of Scott, above centre, and his party, above right, also including Bowers, Oates, Wilson and Evans
Plymouth Herald
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School ties - Our Journey with Explorer Scott
School Ties is a project which encourages young people to explore what goes into getting a theatre production from page to stage. This year young people from Stoke Damerel Community College and Stoke Damerel Primary School worked with Plymouth's Theatre Royal to write, perform and promote their own plays. Both pieces, which were shown at the theatre earlier this year tell the story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's final journey to explore the South Pole.
Click here to read the students report on the project
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