Prince Harry joins walking wounded North Pole trek organized by Dukie 'old boy'
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March 29, 2011
Prince Harry has joined four disabled servicemen on a challenging 200-mile trek across the polar ice cap, organised by Dukie old boy Simon Daglish. The Prince will be with the men on the first five days of what is expected to be a four-week mission in temperatures below -20C and landscapes of unremitting snow and ice. They hope to enter the record books as the first disabled team to walk unassisted to the North Pole and raise £2m for Walking With The Wounded, a charity founded by Simon Daglish with Ed Parker. Simon, a Dukie Chief School Prefect who went on to join Sandhurst and the Army, has been given a DYRMS pennant to take with him on the trek.
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Prince Harry said: "This extraordinary expedition will raise awareness of the debt that this country owes to those it sends off to fight, only for them to return wounded and scarred, physically and emotionally."
The four wounded soldiers have been training together for several months The soldiers taking part were all injured in Afghanistan. For more information visit the Walking with the Wounded website |
