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We are associated with some amazing people, and over the past 135 years we have worked with an enviable list of explorers, adventurers, travellers, photographers, writers, humanitarians, scientists, journalists and communicators. Amongst them are names such as Roald Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, Neil Armstrong, Sir David Attenborough, Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Sir Edmund Hillary, Rosie Swale Pope, Annie Lennox, Christiana Figueres, Michael Palin, Chris Packham, Greta Thunberg and Karen Darke. 

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Published: 30th July, 2019

Updated: 13th September, 2021

Author: James Cave

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