Adrian Hayes - by Josh D

Adrian Hayes

At Wellington, I was invited to a press conference with Adrian Hayes the famous explorer, who had travelled to the three points of the world, Antarctica, Mount Everest and the Arctic. He was inviting different schools to the Mall of the Emirates at the theatre hall to give a press conference about his trip to Greenland.

He wanted to travel across the country kite surfing and walking. He travelled north across the country and turned left at the end of Greenland. He demonstrated how heavy the toboggan is by putting three kids about 9 years old (including his son who is at jess) and pulled them in the toboggan. Then he asked the strongest guy in the theatre to come and pull it and he could hardly pull it at all!!! Next he showed us a slide show about how you do it and the training and loads of hard work. Example: Pulling 3 tyres across the beach lots of times for training and fitness. He showed us clips and photos of his trips particularly the Antarctic because he had been there most recently. He told us that he had planned another trip but it was a surprise and he didn’t want to tell anybody so we didn’t get to know.

Afterwards we got a tee shirt with his trip on it and we got some ice cream and a biscuit.

While Adrian was away I read articles in the newspaper about him and how he was doing. It said there was no wind on some days and they were struggling with the wind.I also read how the was doing on this website www.greenlandquest.com

Thanks,
Josh D