Paul Walker (Arctic explorer)

Paul Walker (born 9 March 1966) is an English born Arctic explorer, mountaineer and Arctic guide specializing in remote regions of Greenland. Since 1989 he has organized over 170 expeditions —personally leading over 30— to Arctic Greenland, Baffin Island and Svalbard and has made over 100 first ascents of new peaks in Greenland. Paul is widely regarded as the world's leading expert on first ascents of remote mountains and summits in east and northeast Greenland. He regularly acts as a location adviser and consultant to the TV and film industry and advises on and organizes military and arctic training expeditions.

Born in Shrewsbury, Walker moved to Wetherby aged 8 and later graduated from Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside in 1988 with an honours degree in Outdoor Education and Mathematics. It was here he led his first Greenland expedition, a 2 month climbing trip to the Schweizerland Alps, beginning a lifelong obsession.

At just 23, Walker became one of the UK's youngest Winter Mountain Leaders. In 1993 he made the first ascent of the 28 pitch northeast ridge of Mont Forel in east Greenland. At 3360m Mont Forel was once thought to be the highest mountain in the Arctic Circle before the discovery of Gunnbjørnsfjeld 3693m. In 1996 he climbed a number of the main summits of the Crown Prince Frederick Range together with members of the Tangent British East Greenland Expedition.

In 1999 he led the first British guided ski crossing of the Greenland Icecap using kites. In 2001 he headed to Svalbard to lead the "Polestar" team to make the first British south-north ski traverse of Spitsbergen.

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