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Our story
Polar Guides ltd was created by a team of like minded winter lovers during one snowy Norway trip. On the back of Inspire2022 South Pole expedition, we simply decided it was time to create a company founded by seasoned polar guides with an all time love for exploring and sharing great adventures. Our team is passionate about polar travel and unique adventures. Let us share our enthusiasm with you.
Our Mission
At Polar Guides ltd, our mission is to offer authentic, individualized experiences through a team of experts. To bring together the best people to create unique, engaging and fundamentally cool trips in remote and stunning locations. Focusing on you, the programs will be appropriately challenging, collaborative, and richly meaningful to give a fulfilling, memorable and unique experience. And importantly, to ensure you have fun , leave feeling invigorated and with an ear to ear smile.
Friends and Partners
We work with the best and have a joyful time doing so. Collaborating & Contributing - Creating experiences which become day dreams of tomorrow.
Directors and Guides
Are Johansen
Prof Chris Imray
Denise Martin
A diamond amongst polar gems, a legend before his time, Are is simply the most authentic polar guide you will find. Are has worked with the best, inspired many, exemplifies true leadership and always has a good time doing this. He has clocked more South Pole expeditions and Greenland crossing than most other polar guides. He is the guy to be with for pure adventure.
Denise Martin
Prof Chris Imray
Denise Martin
Adventure and extreme challenges are in Denise's DNA. With years of cold weather guiding in Northern Canada, the high Arctic and Antarctica, Denise is one of the original polar guides. Proudly wearing the badge of first Canadian women to ski to the North and South Geographic Poles, helping people realise their dreams remains a fundamental reason why Denise loves this job.
Prof Chris Imray
Prof Chris Imray
Prof Chris Imray
Chris is a vascular/renal transplant surgeon who has a sustained interest in austere environments. Chris is a member of both the Alpine and Climbers Club and sits on the Mount Everest Screening Committee. Recently, he completed a 30-year odyssey by climbing the Seven Summits. He is a world expert in cold injuries and has run the UK teleme
Chris is a vascular/renal transplant surgeon who has a sustained interest in austere environments. Chris is a member of both the Alpine and Climbers Club and sits on the Mount Everest Screening Committee. Recently, he completed a 30-year odyssey by climbing the Seven Summits. He is a world expert in cold injuries and has run the UK telemedicine frostbite service for the British Mountaineering Council for over a decade.
In 2017, he co-founded the Global Polar and Altitude Metabolic Research Registry with Claire Grogan to help better understand the challenges of extreme environmental travel. Chris is a co-author of The Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, and although he has published extensively on altitude medicine, cold injury, vascular and renal transplantation surgery (with over 185 peer review publications), he remains an active mountaineer, polar traveller and altitude/cold researcher.
Our Adventure Colleagues
