AURORA Expeditions has announced its second and third Founders voyage, with Australian climber Greg Mortimer to lead two cruises as part of the line’s Special Guest Program for its 2023/24 season. Mortimer will lead the 23-day Antarctica Complete voyage on his namesake ship, departing round trip from Ushuaia on 27...
AURORA Expeditions has announced its second and third Founders voyage, with Australian climber Greg Mortimer to lead two cruises as part of the line’s Special Guest Program for its 2023/24 season.
Mortimer will lead the 23-day Antarctica Complete voyage on his namesake ship, departing round trip from Ushuaia on 27 Dec, as well as the 24-day Arctic Complete voyage, also aboard Aurora’s flagship, travelling from Reykjavik to Longyearbyen in Jul.
Additional special guests for the upcoming season include Gina Chick (pictured), the recent winner of the first season of Alone Australia, who will join the 21-day Falklands, South Georgia & Antarctic Peninsula cruise, departing 13 Mar.
The rewilding facilitator spent 67 days solo in the Tasmanian wilderness, outlasting all other competitors on the show.
She will be interviewed on board by radio announcer Richard Morecroft on the topic of connecting with wild environments.
Joining the ’14-day Deep Weddell following Nordenskjold’ cruise will be Saunders Carmichael-Brown, a member of the small media team aboard last year’s Endurance22 Expedition that found the wreck of Endurance, the three-masted barquentine aboard which Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Extra special guests across the season will include photographers Jeff & Kathryn Britnell, Peter Eastway, and Richard l’Anson, as well as entrepreneur Don Maruska. MS
