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Polar Explorer, Nutritionist, Expert on Human Health under Extreme Conditions & Motivational Speaker

Dr. Mike Stroud OBE became widely known when he partnered Sir Ranulph Fiennes on polar expeditions. In 2003 they both completed seven marathons on seven continents in seven days in the Land Rover 7x7x7 Challenge for the British Heart Foundation. He is the Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Nutrition, Institute of Human Nutrition Southampton University.

“Leading authority on survival, nutrition & endurance”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mike qualified as a doctor in London in 1979 and then spent ten years in a variety of hospital posts interspersed with far reaching expeditions and travel. He was the doctor on the In the footsteps of Scott Antarctic expedition in 1984-1986. He joined Ranulph Fiennes in 1986 to attempt to journey on foot to the North Pole unsupported. In 1992/3 they made the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic continent. He has also featured in the BBC program Through the Keyhole hosted by Sir David Frost. He featured in all three BBC series of SAS – Are You Tough Enough?, set in Scotland, Borneo and the Namib Desert and recently presented the 8 part BBC series The Challenge. He has worked at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, the Army Personnel Research Establishment and later became the Chief Scientist at the UK Centre for Human Sciences.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Awarded the OBE in 1993, Mike Stroud’s account of his ventures is outstanding, appearing frequently on radio and television as a leading authority on matters of human health under extreme conditions. As well as his own feats of endurance, Mike is also well-known for his TV commentaries on others putting themselves in stressful situations. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Mike Stroud vividly takes his audiences through the psychological hardship to the enduring physical pain, as if you had been a part of the expedition![/expand]

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Topics

Human Health under Extreme Conditions

Motivation

From Ice to Dust

Survival of the Fittest

Shadows on the Wasteland

Endurance

Publications

2004
Survival of the Fittest

1996
Shadows on the Wasteland: Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes

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