Londoner David de Rothschild has been adventuring all around the world for almost two decades now, and he'll be talking all about the extraordinary challenges he's already completed and the challenges facing us all in the future as part of the line-up of Esquire Townhouse @ Your House in partnership with Breitling.
The Breitling Explorer Squad member will be in conversation with fellow adventurer and broadcaster Ben Fogle, and you can watch it right here on the Esquire website. You can get the full details by signing up to the Esquire Townhouse email updates here.
Back in 2001, de Rothschild had bought a gigantic organic farm in New Zealand when he was invited to join a Polar expedition. Five years later he became one of only 42 people – and the youngest Brit – ever to reach both geographical poles. More accolades followed: he's one of 14 people ever to cross Antarctica, and he was on a team that crossed the Greenland ice cap in world record time.
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More ecologically minded projects were to come too. In March 2010 de Rothschild set off on a 60-foot catamaran called the Plastiki, made from recycled and eco-friendly materials including more than 12,500 recycled plastic bottles and a special glue made of sugar and cashew nuts, to cross the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney, landing that July.
A committed green campaigner, de Rothschild has led expeditions into the Ecuadorian and Amazon rainforests to document damage by oil drilling companies, and he's also head of the Sculpt the Future education foundation to spread knowledge about the environment far and wide.
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