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YOU can join us to enhance our understanding of the planet by gathering scientific data from rarely visited, highly remote, areas, helping us make informed decisions for the betterment of humanity, both in the present and the future.

💰In the late eighties I gave up a six-figure corporate salary to become a firefighter. Financially, you could argue it w...
25/10/2026

💰In the late eighties I gave up a six-figure corporate salary to become a firefighter. Financially, you could argue it wasn’t a stroke of genius.

🚒 The money mattered and I did have a family to feed. But I’d lost sight of why I was doing that job beyond the salary. My “purpose” had gone and I thought I might be of more use to my community in the fire service, so I made the change.

🤗 I feel that strong sense of purpose when I’m training people for extreme expeditions. I watch them arrive with no experience of that environment and through thorough training and a great deal of work, they become a person their teammates can depend on.

😊 It’s wonderful to see the change in them.

🤔 That’s when I know I’m doing the right work. I can see who it helps and how that in turn helps their community. Whenever I’ve started to lose sight of that, I have asked myself whether it’s time to do something else.

👋Meet Gertrude.⛵️We were sailing from the Falkland Islands to Signy Island in Antarctica, following in the footsteps of ...
15/10/2026

👋Meet Gertrude.

⛵️We were sailing from the Falkland Islands to Signy Island in Antarctica, following in the footsteps of the Scottish explorer William Speirs Bruce for the BBC series The Last Explorers, presented by Neil Oliver.

🌊I had organised and was leading the expedition, although I was contributing remarkably little to proceedings during the 1,300km crossing, having been rendered almost entirely useless by a dreadful bout of seasickness. The Southern Ocean is not especially interested in your previous experience.

🚫After enduring some truly enormous seas, we finally reached the British Antarctic Survey research station, only to discover that Gertrude had taken up residence on the wooden pontoon outside. She was a sizeable elephant seal, thoroughly comfortable and apparently quite unwilling to negotiate access arrangements.

🙈It's a useful thing to remember about leadership. You can be responsible for an expedition without having the slightest control over some of the things that determine how it goes. Sometimes all you can do is accept the situation, find a way around it and try to retain a sense of humour.

🎤When I speak about leadership, I have a simple rule: I never talk about anything I haven't experienced myself.

🦭And while I've commanded expedition teams, I've yet to find a convincing way of issuing orders to an elephant seal.

12/10/2026

We are really looking forward to this next edition of Explorer's Table at The Lovat with Chef Sean Kelly and Explorer Jim McNeill 🍽️🍷

“DO YOUR HOMEWORK!” - I was not famous for doing mine at school. Quite the opposite!In the mid 70s, a troublesome school...
08/10/2026

“DO YOUR HOMEWORK!” - I was not famous for doing mine at school. Quite the opposite!

In the mid 70s, a troublesome schoolboy from a council estate in North London was sent on an Outward Bound course at Eskdale, Lake District.

In the library there I found a book about John Rae, the 19th century Orcadian, Scottish explorer whose success in the Arctic owed a great deal to his willingness to learn from the Inuit people who actually knew how to live and travel there.

That book left a lasting impression on me when, years later, I began spending serious time in the Arctic, each year I saved up my annual leave and went to Nunavut for exactly the same reason. I wanted to learn from people who understood that environment far better than I did. Ozzie, Aleeasuk in Resolute Bay and others taught me skills that reading books in London couldn’t have done. Resolute eventually became a home from home, and later the training base for Ice Warrior.

I have always thought this is a useful leadership lesson! Preparation is not about arriving with all the answers. Often it is the humility to work out who already knows more than you do... then listen properly and learn from them.

It turns out I did eventually learn to do my homework - it simply took me a while!

What! You’ve never heard of Jim? That’s hardly surprising because for the last 4 decades he's been busy. Now we're based...
02/10/2026

What! You’ve never heard of Jim?
That’s hardly surprising because for the last 4 decades he's been busy.
Now we're based in the Highlands, he's got time to write the book (if he can) and tell his tales of how an ordinary Celtic blooded bloke from a council house in London ends up doing something useful on the Arctic Ocean.
His message is - it is all possible!
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As our time in Princetown is drawing to a close it was wonderful to meet HRH Prince William (our landlord) today during ...
15/09/2026

As our time in Princetown is drawing to a close it was wonderful to meet HRH Prince William (our landlord) today during his official visit. Jim reminisced with him about working for his grandparents when he was the Fire Officer for the Royal Household and how our Ice Warrior Project was created during his time at Windsor Castle with the blessing of Prince Phillip. Sam gave him 3 'Pancake the Polar Bear' posters and 3 'Keep Calm and Play Dead' stickers for Princes George, Louis and Princess Charlotte.

12/09/2026

🏠 From humble beginnings to navigating the arctic ocean! 🧊

Join us at Dundreggan to hear the tales from Jim McNeill, an experienced polar explorer who has travelled across the most extreme environments for over 40 years. ❄️

Thrilling, comedic and unapologetically down to earth, Jim shares what polar environments have taught him about leadership, trust, community and performing under pressure in a talk unlike any other. 💫

🎟️ Book your tickets here: https://treesforlife.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/81108?branches.branchID=2894

Jim grew up on a north London council estate, son of an Irish immigrant and a nurse. He wasn't top of the class. More in...
29/06/2026

Jim grew up on a north London council estate, son of an Irish immigrant and a nurse. He wasn't top of the class. More interested in nature, sport and practical jokes than academic achievement.

📚He left school with few qualifications and never imagined that one day he would be standing on the sea ice of the Arctic, working alongside some of the world's leading scientists with teams of people from all walks of life and echelons of society 🤗

💡Over the last 40 years he has learned something remarkable ➡️ The biggest barrier to achievement is rarely intelligence, money or opportunity - It's BELIEF‼️

🙅‍♂️BELIEF that “people like us don't do things like that”

👀Yet Jim has watched accountants, teachers, engineers, business leaders, students and retirees transform themselves into modern-day explorers. Not because they were exceptional - BUT because they discovered a purpose bigger than themselves 🌎

When that happens, people change, CONFIDENCE grows, RESILIENCE strengthens, POSSIBILITIES expand - ORDINARY people become EXTRAORDINARY‼️

SO what's the one thing you've always wanted to do but haven't yet started because you don't think you're the "right sort of person"❓

We’d genuinely love to hear your answer 🙏🏻

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