Henry Cookson , FRGS, is a British polar explorer and adventurer. OnJanuary 2007 he, alongside fellow Britons Rory Sweet and Rupert Longsdon, and their Canadian polar guide Paul Landry, became the first team to reach the southern pole of Inaccessibility by foot, that last visitors being a research team using tracked vehicles amp planes in 1965.
He was born in Wimbledon and attended the Ecole de Roche, Harrow School, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He briefly worked at investment bank Goldman Sachs.
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